Author: Institute of Medicine

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...