The health and safety of crew are crucial to the U.S. maritime industry, a sector of critical importance to the nation’s ...

A wide variety of organizations, agencies, and groups provide guidance on how and what to feed infants and young chidren. The extent to which that guidance is aligned and is based on scientific ...

An ad hoc committee under the auspices of BHEW and in collaboration with HMD, will conduct a study of the ways in which colleges and universities provide treatment and support for the mental health ...

As part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) mobilizes expertise, experience, and knowledge to anticipate and solve complex ...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...

Driving progress for the benefit of society by providing independent, objective advice to advance science, engineering, and medicine.

As the opioid epidemic continues to cause suffering for millions of Americans, the United States government is responding in many different ways. In 2016, lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction ...

This consensus study committee examined the U.S. strategy for reducing biosecurity risks in life sciences research and considered mechanisms that would allow researchers to manage the dissemination of ...

The committee will make recommendations for strategies for developing assessments that validly measure student proficiency in science as laid out in the new K-12 science education framework. The ...

Over 43 million U.S. residents, nearly one in six Americans under the age of 65, lack health coverage. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute of Medicine completed a three ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

Although often excluded from research on social and economic development, women’s empowerment has been an important factor. Women contribute to social and economic development as workers, mothers, and ...