Author: Institute of Medicine

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...