Author: Institute of Medicine

Young adults are at a significant and pivotal time of life. They may seek higher education, launch their work lives, develop personal relationships...

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the nationa...

Health care has been called one of the most complex sectors of the U.S. economy. Driven largely by robust innovation in treatments and intervention...

The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement is the summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on...

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is a...

Recent scientific and technological advances have accelerated our understanding of the causes of disease development and progression, and resulted ...

More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experie...

Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive in...

Assessing Health Professional Education is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Pro...

The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more. This investment has contributed to meaningfu...

In recent years, patients' out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsura...

The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in t...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it affects veterans of all...

Substantial empirical evidence of the contribution of social and behavioral factors to functional status and the onset and progression of disease h...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created in 2005 by The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act (Proposition 71) t...

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make ...

In March and early April 2009, a new, swine-origin 2009-H1N1 influenza A virus emerged in Mexico and the United States. During the first few weeks ...

Although epilepsy is one of the nation's most common neurological disorders, public understanding of it is limited. Many people do not know the cau...

Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the skills of individuals alone. Health literacy is the ...

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying...

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. ...

Nervous system diseases and disorders are highly prevalent and substantially contribute to the overall disease burden. Despite significant informat...

More than 16 million children in the United States live in food-insecure households where they are unable to obtain enough food to meet their needs...

At least 5.6 million to 8 millionnearly one in fiveolder adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which prese...

Despite the extensive body of evidence that informs regulatory decisions on pharmaceutical products, significant uncertainties persist, including t...

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the bes...

Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologie...

Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there...

On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss a...

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are often referred to as the gold standard of clinical research. However, in its current state, the U.S. clinical...

Establishing Transdisciplinary Professionalism for Improving Health Outcomes is a summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Globa...

Since its inception, the U.S. human spaceflight program has grown from launching a single man into orbit to an ongoing space presence involving num...

The more than 200,000 men and women that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce have been entrusted with the ultimate responsi...

Health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside of the health care delivery sector. These determinants of health includ...

Scientific advances such as the sequencing of the human genome have created great promise for improving human health by providing a greater underst...

Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting...

Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change is the summary of a three-part public webinar convened by the Ins...

Clinical research strains to keep up with the rapid and iterative evolution of medical interventions, clinical practice innovation, and the increas...

Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the R...

It is probably only a matter of time before we witness the next event in which large numbers of people are exposed to ionizing radiation. In the pa...

Protecting 18 million United States health care workers from infectious agents - known and unknown - involves a range of occupational safety and he...

Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks: 2013 Letter Report is the first in a series of five reports from the Institute of Medicine...

Genome-Based Diagnostics: Demonstrating Clinical Utility in Oncology is the summary of a workshop convened in May 2012 by the Roundtable on Transla...

Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable o...

Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life. They supply energy for ground, water, and air transportation as well as power for industrial and farm...