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Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on the Assessment of Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule
Vaccines are among the most safe and effective public health interventions to prevent serious disease and death. Because of the success of vaccines, most Americans today have no firsthand experience with such devastating illnesses as polio or diphthe
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Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Sharyl J. Nass, Erin Balogh, Margie Patlak
Each year approximately 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, most of whom inevitably face difficult decisions concerning their course of care. Recognizing challenges associated with cancer treatment, the National Coaliti
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Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Bruce M. Altevogt, Lori Nadig, Clare Stroud
The 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign was one of the largest public health campaigns in U.S. history, vaccinating one-quarter of the population in the first three months. The Institute of Medicine held three workshops in Raleigh, NC; Austin, TX; and Sea
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Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Roundtable on Research and Development of Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices, Jonathan R. Davis, Sarah Pitluck, Peter Bouxsein, Ronald W. Estabrook, Sumner Yaffe, M.D
The Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Roundtable on Research and Development of Drugs, Biologics, and Medical Devices evolved from the Forum on Drug Development, which was established in 1986. Sponsor representatives and IOM determined the importance o
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Institute of Medicine, Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Linette Sparacino, Frederick Manning, Henrik Bendixen
This volume explores the safety and availability of the nation's supply of blood and blood components. It discusses the risks of disease transmission, methods of guarding the blood supply, new ideas on safety and monitoring, risk tolerance, risk comm
In this congressionally mandated study, an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine takes a close look at where treatment for people with alcohol problems seems to be headed, and provides its best advice on how to get there. Careful consideratio
The call for a'parallel track'for AIDS drug development—a proposal that would allow the early distribution of AIDS drugs to large numbers of patients in parallel with the conventional clinical trials that assess the drugs'safety and efficacy—has
The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be considered in the debate. This book summarizes what we know about marijuana from evidence-based medicine—