Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient a...

'Improving Health in the Community' explains how population-based performance monitoring programs...

Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased...

Brain disorders--neurological, psychiatric, and developmental--now affect at least 250 million pe...

Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care

'Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic...

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

'One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease's complexity and variation among patient...

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender a...

'The NIH contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2012 to conduct a study to assess and...

'On March 1, 2013, the IOM and the NRC convened a 1-day workshop, in Washington, DC ... Leveragin...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic s...