Institute of Medicine and National Research Council

Scaling Program Investments for Young Children Globally

Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, São Paulo

This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council with Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal ...

Ensuring Quality Cancer Care

We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are an...

Ensuring Safe Food

From Production to Consumption

How safe is our food supply? Each year the media report what appears to be growing concern related to illness caused by the food consumed by Americans...

Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use

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Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying

Workshop Summary

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is asso...

America's Children

Health Insurance and Access to Care

America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three...

Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin

Workshop Summary

One of the biggest threats today is the uncertainty surrounding the emergence of a novel pathogen or the re-emergence of a known infectious disease th...

Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures

Addressing Problems in the DoD Program to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents

In recent years, substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and other medical interventions against biological agents tha...