Author: Institute of Medicine

Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childh...

Today's physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as sup...

Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population H...

In 2011 the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health initiative identified priorities that have the potential to make a significant impact on the l...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only ille...

Combined with the more traditional employer occupational safety and health protection activities are newer employment-based programs to promote bet...

There is growing evidence from developed and developing countries that community-based approaches are effective in improving the health of individu...

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but ...

Informed consent - the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that results in the explicit ag...

At some point during 2009, more than 17 million households in the United States had difficulty providing enough food for all their members because ...

With the widespread use of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART), HIV has become a chronic, rather than a fatal, disease. But for their t...

If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax-caused ...

Advances in technologies and knowledge are creating new avenues for research and opportunities for the discovery and clinical development of innova...

The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many ...

The childhood obesity epidemic is an urgent public health problem. The most recent data available show that nearly 19 percent of boys and about 15 ...

To effectively treat patients diagnosed with drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) and protect the population from further transmission of this inf...

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elementssampling, analysis, and responseeach...

Every year, the Global Forum undertakes two workshops whose topics are selected by the more than 55 members of the Forum. It was decided in this fi...

Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records: Workshop Summary reviews the statement of task set to the comm...

The number of new drug approvals has remained reasonably steady for the past 50 years at around 20 to 30 per year, while at the same time the total...

Since 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than tripled in the United States. Recent data show that almost one-third of children over 2 years of...

Problems contacting emergency services and delayed assistance are not unusual when incidents occur in rural areas, and the consequences can be deva...

In the last 25 years, a major shift has occurred in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the realiz...

Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relations...

The federal government requires that most packaged foods carry a standardized label--the Nutrition Facts panel--that provides nutrition information...

Every year at least 1.5 million people suffer adverse effects from medication. These problems occur because people misunderstand labels, are unawar...

Global Development Goals and Linkages to Health and Sustainability is the summary of a public three-part webinar series hosted by the Global Enviro...

Determinants of health - like physical activity levels and living conditions - have traditionally been the concern of public health and have not be...

The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care held a workshop, titled Partnering with Patients to Drive Shared D...

Since 1990, when the last guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy were issued, the average body weight of women entering their childbearing yea...

Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates f...

In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, H...

The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-bre...

On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore the relationship between pu...