Last fall, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the independent National Academy of Sciences, to study certain questions related to HIV testing policy and access to care.

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This initiative comes almost two months after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) embarked on a large scale study of sports related concussions, especially those in younger people beginning in grade school through adolescence into early adulthood.

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Today, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its third and final report in a project commissioned by the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP).

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Both studies helped inform an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel that, in September 2009, issued a report recommending the use of fitted N95 respirators by health-care workers who interact with patients with confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1. (MacIntyre was also a member of that panel.) However, because the two studies were preliminary, the committee said that it could not draw conclusions from either.

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a large-scale report reviewing the evidence for the role of certain lifestyle variables and environmental factors in breast cancer risk.

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In 2010 America's respected Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for nurses to play a greater role in primary care.

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To address this gap, the Office of National AIDS Policy ( ONAP) commissioned the Institute of Medicine ( IOM) to identify key indicators to monitor HIV outcomes.

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The unofficial RDA for vitamin D as issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2010 is 600 ius for those under 70, 800 ius for those over 80.

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The President will be required to ask the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC)) to conduct a one year study of existing accreditations and report after one year.

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