Books from National Academies Press
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Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Visual ImpairmentsVisual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, ...
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China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC
By Linda A. Reed, Karen Turner-GottschangThree Letters of Recommendation: One is from a university chancellor or president of educational institution, and two are from the deans (chairpersons) of your department, or the heads of your place of work. 4.
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Grading the Nation's Report Card: Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Board on Testing and AssessmentWhat should NAEP do to meet these expectations? This book provides a blueprint for a new paradigm, important to education policymakers, professors, and students, as well as school administrators and teachers, and education advocates.
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Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action
By Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, Committee on Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for ActionAverage annual NIH funding per affected individual for CF was almost four times more than the average annual funding per affected individual for SCD during the period under review (Farooq and Strouse, 2018). The funding difference was ...
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Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting... Bonnie Strickland at the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas B. Strouse, MD, FAPM, DFAPA, at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center; ...
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Biographical Memoirs
By National Academy of SciencesEach biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
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Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers During an Influenza PandemicPreparing for an Influenza Pandemic : Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers identifies that require expeditious research and policy action: (1) Influenza transmission research should become an immediate and short-term ...
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Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System ProgramThis book provides the managers of the MMRS program and others concerned about local capabilities to cope with CBR terrorism with three evaluation tools and a three-part assessment method.
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Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program: Phase I Report
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response ProgramTools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical REsponse System Program: Phase I Report identifies and develops performance measures and systems to assess the effectiveness of, and to identify barriers related to, the MMRS development process ...
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Keeping Score
By Mathematics, National Research Council, Mathematical Sciences Education BoardDr. Bruce M. Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ...
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Strategies for Ensuring Diversity, Inclusion, and Meaningful Participation in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop
By Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, Health and Medicine DivisionEven as the U.S. population becomes steadily more diverse, minorities and women remain underrepresented in clinical trials to develop new drugs and medical devices.
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The Development of Medications for the Treatment of Opiate and Cocaine Addictions: Issues for the Government and Private Sector
By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study Medication Development and Research at the National Institute on Drug AbuseThis book examines the current environment for and obstacles to the development of anti-addiction medications, specifically those for treating opiate and cocaine addictions, and proposes incentives for the pharmaceutical industry that would ...
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Pathways of Addiction: Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research
By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Opportunities in Drug Abuse ResearchThe book covers the epidemiology and etiology of drug abuse and discusses several of its most troubling health and social consequences, including HIV, violence, and harm to children.
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New Treatments for Addiction: Behavioral, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, National Research CouncilNew and improved therapies to treat and protect against drug dependence and abuse are urgently needed. In the United States alone about 50 million people regularly smoke tobacco and another 5 million are addicted to other drugs.
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Pathways of Addiction: Opportunities in Drug Abuse Research
By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Opportunities in Drug Abuse ResearchUltimately, brain imaging and neurobiological studies have a singular purpose—to better understand drug dependence and other neuropsychiatric disorders so that more effective treatments can be developed. In this scheme, studies in ...
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Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
By Institute of MedicineAssessing the Science Base Institute of Medicine John A. Benson, Jr., Stanley J. Watson, Jr., Janet E. Joy ... and hypnotic drugs) Cocaine 16 17 Heroin 2 23 aDiagnosis of drug dependence used in this study based on DSM-III-R criteria.2 ...
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Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment
By Institute of Medicine, Committee on Federal Regulation of Methadone TreatmentIn: Problems of Drug Dependence, 1985; Proceedings of the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence. ... In vivo and in vitro studies of opiates and cellular immunity in narcotic addicts. In: Drugs ...
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Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol Problems: Research Opportunities
By Institute of Medicine, Committee to Identify Research Opportunities in the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol-Related ProblemsThis section reviews some of the research into drug dependence that is most pertinent for future studies relating to the treatment of alcohol dependence. Use of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Drug-Dependent Patients In a study of ...
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New Treatments for Addiction: Behavioral, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, National Research CouncilWhile these data identify no risk to the fetus from immunization, they are very preliminary and further study is needed in order to assess the safety and acceptability of immunization as a treatment for drug dependence in women with ...
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Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children: Opportunities to Improve Identification, Treatment, and Prevention
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, National Research CouncilPreviously, she has worked as project director on a National Institute of Nursing Research–funded study ... She was chair of a symposium on the current state of the science of drug addiction and pregnancy held by the National Institute ...