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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Co-production is a methodology that leverages the expertise of practitioners and community members to develop holistic solutions to multifaceted problems at the intersection of society and the ...

On April 26, 2019, the National Academies held a one-day public workshop that explored the potential impact of addressing non-medical, health-related social needs on improving population health and ...

Keeping U.S. nuclear weapons out of the hands of adversaries is essential for national security. On request of Congress, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) asked the National ...

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and ...