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Emerging technologies like AI, genomics, and telemedicine are reshaping health care. The National Academy of Medicine fosters innovation, ensuring ethical and impactful advancements.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis |JoAnn E. Manson |Joann Manson |Shari S. Bassuk
Modifiable lifestyle factors are profoundly powerful in maximizing health span and lifespan. Numerous long-term epidemiologic studies provide compelling evidence that self-care behaviors, such as being physically active, eating a nutritious diet, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, avoiding excessive alcohol intake, and getting sufficient sleep, are critically important for maintaining cardiometabolic health (e.g., favorable lipid, glucose, and blood pressure levels).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis |Ana Abel |Hollynd Boyden |Joseph McCannon
ABSTRACT | The health sector accounts for approximately 8.5 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and hospital care makes up the greatest portion of the sector’s emissions. As the impacts of climate change intensify, it is imperative that the health sector reduces its emissions. Tracking and reporting annual building energy use and emissions data is a critical first step toward reducing emissions.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis
The winners of the 11th annual D.C. Public Health Case Challenge were announced on Oct. 18, 2024. This year’s challenge topic was “A Public Health Approach to Address Substance Use and Mental Health Concerns Among Emerging Adults in the DMV Area.”Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, has highlighted a growing public health crisis of loneliness and isolation, especially among young people entering adulthood.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Jenna Ogilvie |Janine Austin Clayton
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) was founded in 1990 with a mission to expand women’s health research, ensure that women are included in NIH research, and promote the advancement of women in biomedicine. In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act put forward that women and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups must be included in NIH research (NIH Revitalization Act, 1993).
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected the 2024 class of Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, a group of early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, including internal medicine, psychiatry, veterinary medicine, biomedical engineering, and oncology.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced the inaugural class of fellows in a pilot State Health Policy Fellowship (SHPF) program. Starting in September, three health professionals will spend a year in state legislative and executive branch offices in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as contributors to the development and implementation of state health policies and programs.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
nam.edu | Talia Lewis |Victor Dzau
Graduates, I want to start by acknowledging that for you, medical school has been anything but typical. As the first “COVID class,” you navigated unprecedented challenges and began your journey during the thick of the pandemic. You were the first class to adapt to virtual learning, and you may have felt isolated and overwhelmed trying to adjust to this situation. I am sure you also worried about your health and the well-being of your loved ones.