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Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary
and IndependenceCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitive...
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Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D
Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and CalciumCurrent price €82.64Original price €86.99Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American ...
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Delivering Affordable Cancer Care in the 21st Century: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99Rising health care costs are a central fiscal challenge confronting the United States. National spending on health care currently accounts for 18 p...
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Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults: Workshop Summary
and IndependenceCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by ...
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International Animal Research Regulations: Impact on Neuroscience Research: Workshop Summary
A. N. WilsonCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of dise...
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Design of the National Children''s Study: A Workshop Summary
and FamiliesCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute o...
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Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Promoting Healthier Choices
Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols (Phase II)Current price €42.76Original price €46.99During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional asp...
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Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute o...
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Fungal Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health: Workshop Summary
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €86.44Original price €90.99Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agric...
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A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Care Services€45.99The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning health system' t...
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy
Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP AllotmentsCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a str...
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The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report
and FamiliesCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their developmen...
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Leveraging Food Technology for Obesity Prevention and Reduction Efforts: Workshop Summary
Food and Nutrition BoardCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99Obesity is a major public health challenge. More than one-third of the U.S. adult population is considered obese, a figure that has more than doubl...
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Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults
and FamiliesCurrent price €73.14Original price €76.99Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security...
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Ensuring Safe Foods and Medical Products Through Stronger Regulatory Systems Abroad
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99A very high portion of the seafood we eat comes from abroad, mainly from China and Southeast Asia, and most of the active ingredients in medicines ...
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Evolution of Translational Omics: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99Technologies collectively called omics enable simultaneous measurement of an enormous number of biomolecules; for example, genomics investigates th...
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Alzheimer''s Diagnostic Guideline Validation: Exploration of Next Steps: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Scientific advances during the last decade now indicate that Alzheimer's disease is a continuous, progressive cognitive disease, most likely beginn...
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An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €42.76Original price €46.99During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases t...
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Providing Healthy and Safe Foods As We Age: Workshop Summary
Food and Nutrition BoardCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Does a longer life mean a healthier life? The number of adults over 65 in the United States is growing, but many may not be aware that they are at ...
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Certifying Personal Protective Technologies: Improving Worker Safety
Board on Health Sciences PolicyCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99When you purchase a product, you expect it to work. Construction workers on high-rise buildings need to be confident that their safety harnesses wi...
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Envisioning a Transformed Clinical Trials Enterprise in the United States: Establishing an Agenda for 2020: Workshop Summary
and TranslationCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99There is growing recognition that the United States' clinical trials enterprise (CTE) faces great challenges. There is a gap between what is desire...
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Contemporary Issues for Protecting Patients in Cancer Research: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinic...
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Ranking Vaccines: A Prioritization Framework: Phase I: Demonstration of Concept and a Software Blueprint
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99As a number of diseases emerge or reemerge thus stimulating new vaccine development opportunities to help prevent those diseases, it can be especia...
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Public Engagement and Clinical Trials: New Models and Disruptive Technologies: Workshop Summary
and TranslationCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Clinical trials provide essential information needed to turn basic medical research findings into patient treatments. New treatments must be studie...
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Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits: Workshop Report
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provi...
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Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary
Board on Global HealthCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the reco...
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Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination
Board on the Health of Select PopulationsCurrent price €57.95Original price €62.99The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two disability programs: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), for disabl...
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For the Public''s Health: Revitalizing Law and Policy to Meet New Challenges
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law...
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Facing the Reality of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India: Challenges and Potential Solutions: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the Indian National Science Academy, and th...
and TranslationCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99An estimated 8.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2010 and 1.4 million died from the disease. Although antibiotics to treat TB wer...
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Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research
and EducationCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable C...
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Understanding the Connections Between Coastal Waters and Ocean Ecosystem Services and Human Health: Workshop Summary
and MedicineCurrent price €45.59Original price €47.99Understanding the Connections Between Coastal Waters and Ocean Ecosystem Services and Human Health discusses the connection of ecosystem services a...
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Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology: Workshop Summary
and IndependenceCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) have had prominent roles in discussions of aging, disability, and technolog...
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Core Measurement Needs for Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs: Counting What Counts: Workshop Summary
Institute of MedicineCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Health care quality and its affordability have become very pressing issues in the United States. All sectors of the country are attempting to push ...
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Nanotechnology and Oncology: Workshop Summary
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99One way scientists are working to overcome challenges in cancer treatment and improve cancer care is through nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, engine...
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Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children''s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary
AffectiveCurrent price €39.55Original price €42.99Over the past few decades there have been major successes in creating evidence-based interventions to improve the cognitive, affective, and behavio...
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For the Public''s Health: Investing in a Healthier Future
Board on Population Health and Public Health PracticeCurrent price €55.97Original price €61.50The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law...
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