Serving as a companion to Growing Up Global, this book from the National ResearchCouncil explores...

More than 3.7 million U.S. service members have participated in operations taking place in the So...

The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life e...

This book is the Institute of Medicine's response to the first part of the statement of task aski...

The global epidemic of hepatitis B and C is a serious public health problem. Hepatitis B and C ar...

Medical devices that are deemed to have a moderate risk to patients generally cannot go on the ma...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, w...

Infectious diseases have been a problem for military personnel throughout history. The consequenc...

Increased HIV screening may help identify more people with the disease, but there may not be enou...

The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20...

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system malfunctions and mistakenly attacks healt...

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has e...