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      Cognitive Aging: Progress in Understanding and Opportunities for Action

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on the Public Health Dimensions of Cognitive Aging

      For most Americans, staying mentally sharp as they age is a very high priority. Declines in memory and decision-making abilities may trigger fears of Alzheimer’s disease or other neurodegenerative diseases…

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      Epilepsy Across the Spectrum: Promoting Health and Understanding

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on the Public Health Dimensions of the Epilepsies

      Although epilepsy is one of the nation’s most common neurological disorders, public understanding of it is limited. Many people do not know the causes of epilepsy or what they should…

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      BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Version

      Committee on Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems: BioWatch and the Public Health System,National Research Council

      Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top priority. In 2003 the Department of…

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      Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public’s Health

      Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry,National Academy of Sciences

      Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry Protecting the Public’s Health (2005)

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      Preserving Public Trust: Accreditation and Human Research Participant Protection Programs

      Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Assessing the System for Protecting Human Research Subjects

      Considers the impact of creating an accreditation system to raise the performance of local protection mechanisms. This report examines two draft sets of accreditation standards for their content in core…

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      Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax

      Committee on Prepositioned Medical Countermeasures for the Public,Institute of Medicine

      If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax-caused by the B. anthracis spores-unless they had…

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      Frameworks for Protecting Workers and the Public from Inhalation Hazards

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers Without Respiratory Protection Programs at Their Workplaces

      Individuals in the United States and Americans abroad are exposed to inhalation hazards from a variety of sources, and these hazards can have both short- and long-term adverse effects on…

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      Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users

      Committee for the Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users,National Academy of Sciences

      Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and-Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator Users

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      Strengthening the Disaster Resilience of the Academic Biomedical Research Community: Protecting the Nation’s Investment

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Health and Medicine Division,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources

      The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and scientific progress. Academic research institutions are drivers of economic development in their local and state economies and…

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      Nonhuman Primate Models in Biomedical Research

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on the State of the Science and Future Needs for Nonhuman Primate Model Systems

      Nonhuman primates represent a small fraction of animals used in biomedical research, but they remain important research models due to their similarities to humans with respect to genetic makeup, anatomy…

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