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Recognizing the potential design complexities and ethical issues associated with clinical trials for gene therapies, the Forum on Regenerative Medi...

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of childre...

Because of the individualized nature of drug and therapeutic treatments, clinical trials require participants who represent the diversity of the pa...

Behavioral health conditions, which include mental health and substance use disorders, affect approximately 20 percent of Americans. Of those with ...

Disasters tend to cross political, jurisdictional, functional, and geographic boundaries. As a result, disasters often require responses from multi...

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professional Education held a public workshop in November 2023. Speakers explored how ...

To explore the current and future state of serious illness care research, the National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affect millions of Americans each year, causing symptoms that can be debilitating and long-lasting and resulting in ...

The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics...

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management ...

Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivo...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical part of infection prevention and health care worker (HCW) protection. The COVID-19 pandemic revea...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is just, equitable, and inclusive, in which everyone receive...

The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to explore the relationship between palliative care and he...

Companies today are operating in a more complex and competitive environment where traditional models for doing business are no longer sufficient an...

Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. B...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-service payment to value-based payment (VBP), wh...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines PM as a mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets comprising a number of comp...

Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These childre...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and ...

Pathogens transmitted among humans, animals, or plants by insects and arthropod vectors have been responsible for significant morbidity and mortali...

In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abus...

The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a profound demographic shift and ...

Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have be...

Older adults are a growing demographic group in the United States, and a range of physical, social, financial, and cultural factors affect their nu...

The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related d...

Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing ...

Communities provide the context in which programs, principles, and policies are implemented. Their needs dictate the kinds of programs that communi...

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and respon...

The 20142015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 death...