Topic: Institute of Medicine

Health-care mandate: Catholic leaders sue over birth control

Health-care plan provision for employer-paid birth control riles Catholic schools, dioceses, and health-care providers. Negotiations with White House 'not encouraging.'

New guidelines show chimps are rarely needed for medical research

The National Institutes of Health issued new guidelines indicating that the use of chimpanzees to study diseases is rarely necessary.

Health insurers must provide free birth control

Health insurers must also provide other preventive services under new federal rules, which say health insurers can't charge a co-pay.

On World AIDS Day, dwindling funds threaten progress

World AIDS Day on Wednesday is a chance to assess the impact of six years of heavy US and international donor funding.

Food safety: How to keep our global menu off the recall list

As the food recall list grows and food imports flood into the US, it may be time to revamp America's 70-year-old laws on food safety.

Supertasters tend to crave salt, study finds

Supertasters – people who taste flavors more acutely than the rest of the population – tend to have diets that are high in salt, a new study has found.

Next on the feds' menu? Overhauling school lunches.

The Obama administration is trying to improve the nutrition of school lunch menus, and it's putting at least $4.5 billion behind it.

Obama's teleprompter commits mutiny during major science speech

In digitizing healthcare, a battle over patient privacy

US lawmakers argue over how to balance the benefits of electronic medical records with privacy needs.

A new New Deal for America

Obama must act boldly to rescue the American people.

When a pound of cure is too much

Another phase of the US healthcare crisis: patients who are overtreated

When a pound of cure is too much

Another phase of the US healthcare crisis: patients who are overtreated.