Sentences with phrase «health funding since»

He fits all of the above criteria, from successful grantee (more than $ 5 million in National Institutes of Health funding since 2004 and millions more from the Defense Department, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and elsewhere) to minor media darling, locally at least.

San Francisco - based Rock Health has been tracking digital health funding since 2011 and last year's numbers are in, as the seed fund reports in its annual «Digital Health Funding: Year in Review.»

Not exact matches

Oscar, which offers health insurance policies that are easier to understand within a user - friendly app - based interface, has raised a reported $ 727 million in funding since 2013, though the company has failed to generate a profit and faces a murky future thanks to the uncertainty surrounding Obamacare.

Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

To date, the Digital Health sector has now received $ 24 billion in 3,258 VC funding deals since Mercom began tracking in 2010.

«Since abolishing its army in 1949, the country has reallocated its defense budget to funding education, health, and pensions.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.2 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception that directly benefit the young patients treated at UF Health Shands Children's Hospital and Arnold Palmer Medical Center.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Since the region has an aging population yet is stretched thin on health care funding, he says Atlantic Canada needs to do something different.

Health Minister Helena Jaczek said she could not comment on the lawsuits because they are before the courts but told reporters the Liberal government — which is up for re-election June 7 — has increased funding for nursing homes since taking power in 2003.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.3 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception in 1997 that directly benefit the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.

Since 1976, Blue Diamond has been funding research in more than 70 projects focused on the health of bees, pollination and colony health.

She was one of the first health visitors to participate in the International Breastfeeding Course at the Institute of Child Health (self funded since employers could not find the resouhealth visitors to participate in the International Breastfeeding Course at the Institute of Child Health (self funded since employers could not find the resouHealth (self funded since employers could not find the resources).

She has served as an administrator of the Friends of the WHO Code Facebook group since 2011, when she co-led a social media campaign to encourage the Pan American Health Organization to cease their acceptance of funding from Nestle.

Apart from being a glaring violation of the law, this move will cripple the Education and Health sectors since these Funds have become so central to their financing.

The Department of Health says enrollment for individual and family coverage since October includes nearly 422,000 New Yorkers in the 16 commercial and nonprofit insurers in the exchange and nearly 487,000 in government - funded Medicaid.

(GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said better mental health systems — not tougher gun control laws — were needed to combat mass shootings, but he has slashed funding and staffing for such services since taking office as Westchester county executive in 2010, budget figures show.)

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said better mental health systems — not tougher gun control laws — were needed to combat mass shootings, but he has slashed funding and staffing for such services since taking office as Westchester county executive in 2010, budget figures show.

A Commonwealth Fund study finds — contrary to widespread belief — that the growth of premiums for employer - sponsored health plans has slowed nationwide since passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

The hospital received a $ 2,000 member item as recently as 2013 administered by the state Department of Health, part of more than $ 13.6 million in state funding flowing to the medical center since 2009, according to public records.

The governor, who has feuded with de Blasio since 2015, also proposed cutting $ 11 million in state aid to the city's health department, arguing that the city is more readily able to access federal funds compared to the state's county governments.

In fact, Schneiderman was the only donor to each NARAL PAC through different two - year cycles, and has accounted for 50 percent of its Women's Health PAC's funding since 2004 and 47 percent of the total raised by the second PAC.»

House members have sent a letter to House Speaker Richard Corcoran — who has mostly been mum since the shooting — asking him to match the Senate's funding proposal for mental health services.

Since then, Stefanik has delivered a steady stream of funding to local health care centers and has made funding Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading health care centers and has made funding Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading issue.

The chair of the Assembly Health Committee, he has represented Manhattan's West Side since 1971 and been at the center of every fight for state funding to battle AIDS.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the new policy didn't represent a significant shift, since the NIH has continued to assess and fund some gain - of - function experiments even during the moratorium.

Since 2006, the number of industry - sponsored clinical trials studying the benefits and harms of medical treatments has risen dramatically, while the number of clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fallen substantially, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research.

If Obama's plan is enacted, the CDC's congressionally controlled funding will have fallen by roughly 20 % since 2010 — a decline that «looks like a disaster waiting to happen», says Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories in Silver Spring, Maryland.

As anyone who follows biomedical science knows, research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fallen significantly since 2010 — the end of the abrupt 2 - year infusion of «stimulus» money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which temporarily boosted spending.

The Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education sponsors an Industrial Ph.D. program that, in its current form, has funded more than a thousand projects since 2002, most in health, natural sciences, and technology.

Since the 9/11 attacks, funding for biodefense research and public - health preparedness has risen from $ 418 million in 2001 to more than $ 5 billion in 2006.

► Later that day, at ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the Coca - Cola Company released information revealing that it has given «more than $ 118 million in funding to various health - related projects and organizations since 2010, including nearly $ 22 million dedicated to research.»

Instead, Congress could eliminate the Dickey - Wicker rule, which each year since 1996 has been passed as part of the appropriations bill funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In 2006, Washington state legislators authorized the State Board of Health to conduct reports similar to HIAs, although funding for those reports has since been cut, says Gordon MacCracken, a spokesperson for the board.

Although the disease hasn't been seen in North America, «the chance of someone infected with MERS landing on US shores is possible since international travelers that have been to the Arabian peninsula and exposed to the MERS CoV may be asymptomatic at the time of their travel» said Marasco, whose research on the virus is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

A search of the CRISP database of NIH - funded research projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two projects).

Funders over the years have included Soros's Open Society Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation and, since 2004, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which gave the local health authorities a five - year, $ 10.7 - million grant.

A list published on the company's website details more than $ 118 million in funding to various health - related projects and organizations since 2010, including nearly $ 22 million dedicated to research.

The NIH has not funded new research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in biomedical and behavioral research.

Biomedical research on chimpanzees has been waning since 2013, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would phase out most government - funded chimp research and retire the majority of its research chimps to sanctuaries.

The laboratory, funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health since 1999, also receives funding from device manufacturers and nonprofit organizations.

For the first time since the linkurl: National Institutes of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ released its new guidelines for the derivation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines last summer, a line approved under the Bush administration has been recommended for inclusion into the growing federal registry of lines eligible for federal funding.

The Commonwealth Fund has, since 2004, proudly co-sponsored the Australian - American Health Policy Fellowship (formerly the Packer Policy Fellowships).

Since an initial grant in 1987, we have maintained continuous National Science Foundation support, and have been lucky to have had the help of numerous prestigious funders, including the National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Dana Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Burroughs - Wellcome Fund, Amgen Foundation, OSI Pharmaceuticals, and Pall Corporation.

Mercury is a health concern — in excess it can cause neurological issues — but keep in mind that all fish contains traces of this metal, since it's in our water, notes Tim Fitzgerald, director of impact at the Environmental Defense Fund's Fishery Solutions Center.

For the past year, a group of researchers with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public policy.