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Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is formulating risk assessments to identify important foodborne hazards; evaluate potential strategies to prevent, reduce, or …
Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques
Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) are designed to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases from mother to child. While MRTs, if effective, could …
Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer
At least 10.7 million American women use oral contraceptives (OCs). The potential connection with breast cancer has caused concern among these OC users and uncertainty among many …
Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?
In today's world the public faces many health threats from bioterrorism to the epidemic of obesity. It's thus important to have an effective public health system. This system …
Gulf War and Health
Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nations public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new …
International Perspective on Advancing Technologies and Strategies for Managing Dual-Use Risks
As part of a study of current and future research in the life sciences that contains applications relevant to development of agents of biological origin 5 to 10 years into the …
Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam
From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to …
Veterans and Agent Orange
In response to the concerns voiced by Vietnam veterans and their families, Congress called upon the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review the scientific evidence on the …
Countering Biological Threats
In response to a request from the U.S. Congress, this book examines how the unique experience and extensive capabilities of the Department of Defense (DOD) can be extended to …
Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services
Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the United States is more than two decades into the opioid crisis - the cause of tens of …
Hepatitis and Liver Cancer
The global epidemic of hepatitis B and C is a serious public health problem. Hepatitis B and C are the major causes of chronic liver disease and liver cancer in the world. In the …