Author: Institute of Medicine

Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitive...

Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American ...

Rising health care costs are a central fiscal challenge confronting the United States. National spending on health care currently accounts for 18 p...

Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by ...

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of dise...

The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute o...

During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional asp...

Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute o...

Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agric...

For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a str...

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their developmen...

Obesity is a major public health challenge. More than one-third of the U.S. adult population is considered obese, a figure that has more than doubl...

Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security...

A very high portion of the seafood we eat comes from abroad, mainly from China and Southeast Asia, and most of the active ingredients in medicines ...

Technologies collectively called omics enable simultaneous measurement of an enormous number of biomolecules; for example, genomics investigates th...

Scientific advances during the last decade now indicate that Alzheimer's disease is a continuous, progressive cognitive disease, most likely beginn...

During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases t...

Does a longer life mean a healthier life? The number of adults over 65 in the United States is growing, but many may not be aware that they are at ...

When you purchase a product, you expect it to work. Construction workers on high-rise buildings need to be confident that their safety harnesses wi...

There is growing recognition that the United States' clinical trials enterprise (CTE) faces great challenges. There is a gap between what is desire...

In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinic...

As a number of diseases emerge or reemerge thus stimulating new vaccine development opportunities to help prevent those diseases, it can be especia...

Clinical trials provide essential information needed to turn basic medical research findings into patient treatments. New treatments must be studie...