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Advancing Prion Science
In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicines Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and …
Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures
In recent years, substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and other medical interventions against biological agents that could be used in …
Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)
More than 5,800 military personnel, mostly Navy personnel and Marines, participated in a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents, …
Advancing Prion Science
In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and …
Battling Malaria
Malaria is an infectious disease common to several parts of the world, including Africa, northern South America, and Asia. During their service in the military, U.S. active members …
Noise and Military Service
The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to …
Epidemiology in Military and Veteran Populations
This book contains papers presented at a conference which describe studies of a World War II hepatitis epidemic, a genetic analysis of substance use in veteran twins, hemorrhagic …
Anthrax Vaccine
The vaccine used to protect humans against the anthrax disease, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA), was licensed in 1970. It was initially used to protect people who might be …
Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process has been working since it first met in January 2005 to develop recommendations to the Social …
Strategies to Leverage Research Funding
Since 1992 the Department of Defense (DOD), through the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, has received congressionally earmarked appropriations for programs of …
Health of Former Prisoners of War
Using the results from comprehensive medical examinations, this volume explores the prevalence of disease among former prisoners of war of World War II and the Korean conflict and …
Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Nine years after Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War) ended in June 1991, uncertainty and questions remain about illnesses reported in a substantial percentage …