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The Institute of Medicine: Advising the Nation, Improving Health
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... Issues such as the rising cost of health care and emerging threats such as avian flu and bioterrorism have created new challenges to the health care system. Meanwhile, advances in stem cells, nanotechnology, and genomics have brought the ethics of medicine further into the arena of politics, creating increasingly complex challenges for policy makers and scientists alike.
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... In addition to IOM members, more than 2,000 other experts -- scientists, health professionals, legal experts, organizational executives, engineers, human ists, civic leaders, patient advocates, and others -- volunteer to help the IOM an swer the world's most challenging health questions: from AIDS to vaccine safety, from breast cancer to childhood obesity, and from the quality of medical care to public health preparedness. Members and other experts all serve without compensation by conducting studies, participating in workshops and roundtable discussions, serving as re viewers, and supporting the IOM's many activities designed to improve health.
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... By identifying scientifically sound evidence and presenting it in a well-reasoned and rational context, the IOM has become recognized as a trustworthy and apolitical national resource on topics related to biomedical science, medical care, and human health. IOM studies can be quite focused, as evidenced by the Review of NASA's Space Flight Health Standards-Setting Process: Letter Report (2007)
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... The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation requested that the IOM continue this work, which resulted in Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?
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