Author: Institute of Medicine

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...