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...