Author: Institute of Medicine

Globally, between 15-71 percent of women will experience physical and/or sexual abuse from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. Too...

Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient s...

SMART Vaccines - Strategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines - is a prioritization software tool developed by the Institute of Medicine tha...

Data sharing can accelerate new discoveries by avoiding duplicative trials, stimulating new ideas for research, and enabling the maximal scientific...

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or hav...

Health information technology is providing patients, clinicians, and researchers with access to data that will enable novel approaches to science a...

Health systems and assets are a large part of the critical infrastructure of any community and are vital not only for the safety and well-being of ...

Neurodegeneration: Exploring Commonalities Across Diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Forum on Neur...

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving natio...

Emerging infectious disease threats that may not have available treatments or vaccines can directly affect the security of the world's health since...

Many health care providers do not have either the knowledge or the tools they need in order to apply genetic information in their day-to-day practi...

An ideal health care system relies on efficiently generating timely, accurate evidence to deliver on its promise of diminishing the divide between ...

Obesity affects 17 percent of children and adolescents and almost 36 percent of adults in the United States. Conservative estimates suggest that ob...

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health care industry and their impli...

A particularly valuable opportunity to improve public health arises when an urban area is being redesigned and rebuilt following some type of serio...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domesti...

For most Americans, staying mentally sharp as they age is a very high priority. Declines in memory and decision-making abilities may trigger fears ...

From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500-2,100 US Air Force Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spr...

The integration and coordination of health, education, nutrition, social protection, and other services have the potential to improve the lives of ...

The past several decades have been a time of rapid globalization in the development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of medical products a...

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under Gandhi and to aid groups working in Africa to prom...

Drug development can be time-consuming and expensive. Recent estimates suggest that, on average, it takes 10 years and at least $1 billion to bring...

Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major ...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

Over the past several decades, new scientific tools and approaches for detecting microbial species have dramatically enhanced our appreciation of t...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, seeks to transform nursing as part of larger efforts to reform ...

Childhood Obesity Prevention in Texas summarizes the information gathered at a workshop held February 5-6, 2009, in Austin, Texas. At this workshop...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more th...

Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During...

Digital health data are the lifeblood of a continuous learning health system. A steady flow of reliable data is necessary to coordinate and monitor...

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institut...

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Preventi...

The 2010 opening of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) created a joint entity between the Department of Defense (DoD) an...

The process for translating basic science discoveries into clinical applications has historically involved a linear and lengthy progression from in...

Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival. Shaping and shaped by their host environments, t...

One of the many benefits of the U.S. food system is a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supply. However, the same system also places significan...

From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destro...

Many drug developers have examined new strategies for creating efficiencies in their development processes, including the adoption of genomics-base...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic sequence into a human subject for research or diagn...

Every year, public and private funders spend many billions of dollars on large-scale, complex, multi-national health initiatives. The only way to k...

The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of...

In 1992 world leaders met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to reaffirm the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environme...

Every job can lead to stress. How people cope with that stress can be influenced by many factors. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs...