'If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people cou...

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast...

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...

Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves under...

The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, a...

NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) share responsibility for overs...

The cloud model of data sharing has led to a vast increase in the quantity and complexity of data...

'The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22-23, 2...

Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and ...

'In recent years, the field of oncology has witnessed a number of technological advances, includi...

The emerging multidisciplinary field of regenerative engineering is devoted to the repair, regene...

'On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a publi...

Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-i...

As the United States continues to adapt to a more digital, mobile, and interconnected world, heal...

This is the fourth in a series of five letter reports that provide an independent review of the m...

Dual loyalties exist in many medical fields, from occupational health to public health. Military ...

Glutamate is the most pervasive neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS). Despite thi...

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect ...

'Workshop, August 18, 2014 ... Washington, DC'--Page 73.

'Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB c...

Both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety an...

'The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that all clinical trials for drugs that affe...

Introduction -- Hearing loss: extent, impact, and research needs -- Hearing health care services:...

'A report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.'

'Genomic medicine is defined as the routine use of genomic information about an individual as par...

Summary of a discussion forum that took place in Washington, DC on June 21-22, 2010.

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdicti...

This report focuses on articulating current concepts and guidance that can assist state and local...

'As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increas...

'Ten years after the sequencing of the human genome, scientists have developed genetic tests that...

Until fairly recently, genetic information was used primarily in the diagnosis of relatively rare...

The Role of Clinical Studies for Pets with Naturally Occurring Tumors in Translational Cancer Res...

'Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to incre...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their ...

Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks 2015 Letter Report is the third in a seri...

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is signi...

'During public health emergencies such as terrorist attacks or influenza outbreaks, the public he...

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous syst...

'The national academies of sciences-engineering-medicine'--Cover.

'The State of the Science in the Field of Regenerative Medicine: Challenges of and Opportunities ...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substanc...

Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy canc...

During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear ...

Cancer treatment can lead to an array of significant short- and long-term physical, psychosocial,...

While significant progress has been seen in fields such as cardiovascular medicine and cancer in ...

'In August 2009 the Uganda National Academy of Sciences Forum on Health and Nutrition and the U.S...

An estimated 8.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2010 and 1.4 million died from...

A very high proportion of the seafood we eat comes from abroad, mainly from China and southeast A...