Author: Board on Health Sciences Policy

Accumulating evidence gathered over the past three decades has demonstrated a biological basis for differences between men and women with respect t...

Approximately five percent of Medicare beneficiaries (2.2 million Americans) are living with serious illness, as are many other non-Medicare eligib...

The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a phy...

Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the nation has been a world leader in coal production for more than ...

There is a void in evidence-based information for making informed decisions on how to optimize care for older adults, particularly those 80 years a...

The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47,000 people in the U.S. in 2017. The past three decades...

Those involved in the drug development process face challenges of efficiency and overall sustainability due in part to high research costs, lengthy...

COVID-19 has proven among the worst public health crises in a generation. Public health emergencies (PHE) have always been anticipated. Despite the...

As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increasing percentage of older adults and people with disa...

Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During...

The process for translating basic science discoveries into clinical applications has historically involved a linear and lengthy progression from in...

Many drug developers have examined new strategies for creating efficiencies in their development processes, including the adoption of genomics-base...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic sequence into a human subject for research or diagn...

The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginni...

Pain is both a symptom and a disease. It manifests in multiple forms and its treatment is complex. Physical, social, economic, and emotional conseq...

Every job can lead to stress. How people cope with that stress can be influenced by many factors. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs...

At the request of NASA, an IOM committee reviewed NASA Human Research Program's (HRP's) Scientific Merit Assessment Processes for directed research...

Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have d...