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Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309726733
Booksplease Price: £25.45At the request of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation provides an overview of the current... -
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System by National Research Council 9780309307802
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £49.48How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our... -
CNS Clinical Trials: Suicidality and Data Collection: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine 9780309148832
Booksplease Price: £29.99The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that all clinical trials for drugs that affect the central nervous system--including psychiatric drugs--are assessed for whether that drug might... -
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion by Institute of Medicine 9780309283328
Booksplease Price: £50.78To maintain their own health and the health of their families and communities, consumers rely heavily on the health information that is available to them. This information is at the core of the... -
Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products by Institute of Medicine 9780309316248
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £44.69Tobacco use by adolescents and young adults poses serious concerns. Nearly all adults who have ever smoked daily first tried a cigarette before 26 years of age. Current cigarette use among adults is... -
Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress by Institute of Medicine 9780309324939
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £38.79Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding... -
Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010: Final Report by Institute of Medicine 9780309065399
Booksplease Price: £91.56Healthy People is the nation's agenda for health promotion and disease prevention. The concept, first established in 1979 in a report prepared by the Office of the Surgeon General, has since been... -
Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic Genotyping, Forensic DNA Phenotyping, and Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309723640
Booksplease Price: £25.64To better understand key considerations around law enforcement use of advanced forensic DNA technologies, the Committee on Law and Justice and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the... -
Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants by National Research Council 9780309064323
Booksplease Price: £48.02With an increasing population, use of new and diverse chemicals that can enter the water supply, and emergence of new microbial pathogens, the U.S. federal government is faced with a regulatory... -
Macroeconomic Implications for Decarbonization Policies and Actions: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309734660
Booksplease Price: £22.94Decarbonization brings both risks and opportunities to the macroeconomy. Achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century may involve sweeping changes in technologies, policies, and systems, and the ways... -
Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309721554
Booksplease Price: £43.85Racial and ethnic inequities in health and health care impact individual well-being, contribute to millions of premature deaths, and cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually... -
Re-Engineering Water Storage in the Everglades: Risks and Opportunities by National Research Council 9780309095297
Booksplease Price: £43.65The Water Science and Technology Board and the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology have released the seventh and final report of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades... -
U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy: Report of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309224383
Booksplease Price: £31.56The United States and other countries around the world face problems of an increasingly global nature that often require major contributions from science and engineering that one nation alone cannot... -
Assessing the Impact of Severe Economic Recession on the Elderly: Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309209694
Booksplease Price: £35.48The economic crisis that began in 2008 has had a significant impact on the well-being of certain segments of the population and its disruptive effects can be expected to last well into the future... -
Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants by National Research Council 9780309163453
Booksplease Price: £20.88The Department of Defense, through the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, is currently in the process of constructing two full-scale pilot plants at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in... -
Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Indigenous communities experience higher risks for suicide compared to the general U.S. population, with suicide as the second-leading cause of death among Indigenous children and young adults in... -
Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society by Committee on Risk Characterization 9780309089562
Booksplease Price: £96.35Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live... -
Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats by National Research Council 9780309086288
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £93.96Updating recommendations last made by the National Research Council in the mid-1980s, this report provides nutrient recommendations based on physical activity and stage in life, major factors that... -
Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States by NGSS 9780309272278
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.39Next Generation Science Standards identifies the science all K-12 students should know. These new standards are based on the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education. The... -
From Molecular Insights to Patient Stratification for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309277556
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.65While significant progress has been seen in fields such as cardiovascular medicine and cancer in improving patient stratification and developing targeted drugs based on genetic findings, progress... -
Enabling Discovery, Development, and Translation of Treatments for Cognitive Dysfunction in Depression: Workshop Summary by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine 9780309373937
Booksplease Price: £42.95Major depressive disorder (MDD) is recognized worldwide as a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. According to the World Health Organization, unipolar depressive disorders affect more... -
Family-Focused Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309691932
Booksplease Price: £22.94Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly reduce rates of substance use disorder in adulthood... -
Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309458856
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £23.60An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute. Plastic waste is... -
Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response by Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century 9780309088640
Booksplease Price: £62.24Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving... -
Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309060400
Booksplease Price: £43.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309060400Author National Research CouncilFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint National Academies... -
Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride by Institute of Medicine 9780309064033
Booksplease Price: £95.05Since 1941, Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) has been recognized as the most authoritative source of information on nutrient levels for healthy people. Since publication of the 10th edition in... -
Surface Coal Mining Effects on Groundwater Recharge by Water Science and Technology Board 9780309042376
Booksplease Price: £47.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309042376Author Water Science and Technology BoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint National... -
Breast Cancer: Setting Priorities for Effectiveness Research by Division of Health Care Services 9780309078702
Booksplease Price: £119.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDivision of Health Care ServicesBook InformationISBN 9780309078702Author Division of Health Care... -
Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 by Committee to Review the Research Activities Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 9780309065436
Booksplease Price: £46.60Since the 1970s, concerns about health hazards associated with electric and magnetic fields from power lines and from workplace, school, and household use of electricity have led to many studies and... -
Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World by Committee on Nervous System Disorders in Developing Countries 9780309071925
Booksplease Price: £62.27Brain disorders-neurological, psychiatric, and developmental-now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet... -
The Science of Regional and Global Change: Putting Knowledge to Work by Committee on Global Change Research 9780309073271
Booksplease Price: £43.78This report is intended to promote a dialogue between the scientific community and the government officials who will lead our nation in the coming years on global change research. The first section... -
Immunization Safety Review: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Vaccine and Autism by Immunization Safety Review Committee 9780309074476
Booksplease Price: £38.79Immunization is widely regarded as one of the most effective and beneficial tools for protecting the public's health. In the United States, immunization programs have resulted in the eradication of... -
The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation by Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters 9780309063944
Booksplease Price: £43.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309063944Author Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural DisastersFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2012 by Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update) 9780309288866
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £91.56From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to... -
Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Schools: Brief Summary: Institute of Medicine Regional Symposium by Kansas Health Foundation 9780309100403
Booksplease Price: £29.99Obesity is now an epidemic among children and adolescents in the United States. Nationwide, roughly nine million children over six years of age are obeseaEURO"with elevated risks of both health... -
Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary by Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health 9780309116763
Booksplease Price: £41.99Until fairly recently, genetic information was used primarily in the diagnosis of relatively rare genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's Disease, but a transformation in the use... -
Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm: Innovation and Practice-Based Approaches: Workshop Summary by LeighAnne Olsen 9780309119887
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £69.47Recent scientific and technological advances have accelerated our understanding of the causes of disease development and progression, and resulted in innovative treatments and therapies. Ongoing work... -
Assessing Health Professional Education: Workshop Summary by Patricia A. Cuff 9780309302531
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Assessing Health Professional Education is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education to explore assessment of health... -
Developing New Contraceptives: Obstacles and Opportunities by Committee on Contraceptive Development 9780309083522
Booksplease Price: £54.99There are numerous reasons to hasten the introduction of new and improved contraceptives-from health concerns about the pill to the continuing medical liability crisis. Yet, U.S. organizations are... -
Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft by Committee to Evaluate the Potential Exposure of Agent Orange/TCDD Residue and Level of Risk of Adverse Health Effects for Aircrew of Post-Vietnam C-123 Aircraft 9780309308908
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £26.00From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500-2,100 US Air Force Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spray herbicides in Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch...