Author: Health and Medicine Division

An estimated 90 percent of oncology patients in the United States receive treatment in outpatient cancer centers and clinics. This change from the ...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...

In November 2017, the The Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health, in collaboration with the Roundtable on the Pr...

In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the U...

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda. The increased attention has led to a growing interest in quantifying obesit...

Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Dep...

Although it is becoming increasingly more common for clinicians to use genomic data in their practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treat...

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. ...

The use and misuse of antibiotics contributes to the rise in drug-resistant bacteria - a serious and worsening threat to human health. The developm...

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a multi-day workshop series in March and April 2023 to ex...

Ensuring the safety of food and the quality and safety of medicines in a country is an important role of government, made more complicated by globa...

While there is a limited data on safety-sensitive professionals, substance use disorders potentially affect pilots and flight attendants at the sam...

Multimodal therapy approaches that combine interventions aimed at different aspects of disease are emerging as potentialand perhaps essentialways t...

Among the many troubling aspects of the rising prevalence of obesity in the United States and elsewhere in recent years, the growth of early childh...

In March 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore the role that chemical exposures may play i...

The purpose of accreditation is to build a competent health workforce by ensuring the quality of training taking place within those institutions th...

Over the past 20 years, public concerns have grown in response to the apparent rising prevalence of food allergy and related atopic conditions, suc...

Federal guidance on nutrition and diet is intended to reflect the state of the science and deliver the most reliable recommendations possible accor...

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

After decades of increases in the obesity rate among U.S. adults and children, the rate recently has dropped among some populations, particularly y...

In September 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to examine trends and patterns in aging and fa...

Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic growth of genetic testing in the health care system. T...

The environment for women's health has changed over the last 25 years. Increased use of automobiles can lead to health risks from lack of physical ...

Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and how the im...