Medicine: general issues

Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population.

Compared with other disease areas, central nervous system (CNS) disorders have had the highest failure rate for new compounds in advanced clinical trials.

Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes.

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Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life.

Vaccines are among the most safe and effective public health interventions to prevent serious disease and death.

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 23, 1997, to prohibit the use of animals in the production of mAb.

El ultrasonido es una herramienta que permite ampliar la explo­ración física de los pacientes sin exponerlos a radiación y con la facilidad de poder ser llevada hoy en día a la cama del paciente.

Desde la antigüedad, los medicamentos son una parte fundamental de nuestra terapia.

The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways.

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey.

The nation has made tremendous progress in reducing tobacco use during the past 40 years.

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

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise.

In today's world the public faces many health threats from bioterrorism to the epidemic of obesity.

A major goal of the US Department of Defense (DOD) Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) is to develop countermeasures that will protect military personnel against bioweapons, including specific infectious-disease agents and toxins.

Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world.

Health literacythe ability for individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services to facilitate appropriate health decisionsis increasingly recognized as an important facet of health care and health outcomes.

Every job can lead to stress.

During a wide-reaching catastrophic public health emergency or disaster, existing surge capacity plans may not be sufficient to enable health care providers to continue to adhere to normal treatment procedures and follow usual standards of care.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are increasing in epidemic proportions in developing countries.

Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, theDepartment of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of thenutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions.

Adolescence is a time of major transition, however, health care services in the United States today are not designed to help young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives.

Behavioral health and substance use disorders affect approximately 20 percent of the U.

Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel.

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey.

Si l’homéopathie est utilisée aujourd’hui à travers le monde par des milliers de médecins, si des millions de personnes y ont recourt régulièrement ou occasionnellement, que ce soit seule ou en association avec d’autres traitements, son mode d’action reste néanmoins bien souvent obscure.

Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers.

The Transformational Medical Technologies (TMT) has been a unique component of the U.

The death of a child is a special sorrow.

Risk assessments are often used by the federal government to estimate the risk the public may face from such things as exposure to a chemical or the potential failure of an engineered structure, and they underlie many regulatory decisions.

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 23, 1997, to prohibit the use of animals in the production of mAb.

Many of the pesticides applied to food crops in this country are present in foods and may pose risks to human health.

As the public health threat of childhood obesity has become clear, the issue has become the focus of local, state, and national initiatives.

Each year more than 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women in the U.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a portfolio of projects that build data capacity for conducting patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).

In recent years, the costs of new drug development have skyrocketed.

Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities.

We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality.

During medical emergencies, hospital staff and emergency medical services (EMS) providers, can face barriers in delivering the fastest and best possible care.

Centuries of scientific advances in agriculture have increased the quantity, quality, and variety of ourfood supply.

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

Informed consent - the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that results in the explicit agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention - is an ethical concept based on the principle that all patients and research subjects should understand and agree to the potential consequences of the clinical care they receive.

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

Innovative medical devices have helped reduce the burden of illness and injury and improve the quality of life for countless children.

Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions about whether these efforts improve their health outcomes.

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace.

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