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...