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New research has found that the US government and schools have made mixed progress to comprehensively address food and beverage marketing practices that put young people's health at risk. A comprehensive review published in the March issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that public sector stakeholders have failed to fully implement recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to support a healthful diet to children and adolescents. "Evidence links the...
The pain suffered by older adults is the shared focus of the two newest entries in The Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) From Publication to Practice series. Together they address both pain management and new labeling changes for one of the most popular pain medications, acetaminophen. Both issues aim to provide readers with information on how new advances in pain prevention, treatment, and management may improve care and quality of life for older adults. The From Publication to...
IOM Recommendations Call for Paradigm Shift ATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Arthritis Foundation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are proud supporters of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released today outlining a new vision and plan of action to reduce the crisis proportions of chronic illness that threaten the nation's health and economic welfare. According to the report, Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, today announced sponsoring the "Go Viral To Improve Health" prize competition with the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. "Go Viral To Improve Health" challenges undergraduate and graduate students to create innovative health-related apps, encouraging students to work in interdisciplinary teams and transform...
Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, report that infants as young as 6-months of age who have been introduced to starchy table foods have a greater preference for salt than do infants not yet eating these foods. Table foods such as crackers, bread and cereals contain high levels of salt, Jenny Hope reports for The Mail Online. The exposed infants consumed 55 percent more salt during a preference test than did infants not yet introduced to starchy foods. By...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday suspended all new grants for research on chimpanzees after a panel of independent experts’ nine-month deliberation found that most medical experiments on man’s closest primate relative were unwarranted. The Institute of Medicine noted in a report on the ruling that chimpanzees remain indispensable for biomedical and behavioral research that benefits humans, but only in a small number of circumstances and likely not for long....
Given that chimpanzees are so closely related to humans and share similar behavioral traits, the National Institutes of Health should allow their use as subjects in biomedical research only under stringent conditions, including the absence of any other suitable model and inability to ethically perform the research on people, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. In addition, use of these animals should be permissible only if forgoing their use will...
A new Institute of Medicine report specifies the types of research that the Food and Drug Administration should require before allowing tobacco companies to sell or advertise 'modified risk' tobacco products as being capable of reducing the health risks of tobacco use. While modified risk tobacco products could be one part of a comprehensive strategy to lower tobacco-related death and disease in the U.S., especially among tobacco users who are unable or unwilling to quit entirely, little is...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) As required by the 2009 law granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products, the Institute of Medicine today issued a report regarding the type of scientific evidence and research the FDA should require of tobacco companies seeking to make...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sean P. David, M.D., Ph.D., SRI research physician and director of the Translational Medicine program in SRI's Policy Division, has been selected as the 2011-2013 James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine Fellow at the Institute of Medicine. David was selected from an outstanding group of nominees because of his accomplishments in family medicine, and specifically his work on smoking cessation and...
