Sentences with phrase «health officials know»

The atlas should help the eradication fight by letting health officials know just where the problem areas are.

Not exact matches

Earlier on Friday, U.S. health officials published a study estimating that as many as 270 babies in Puerto Rico may be born with the severe birth defect known as microcephaly caused by Zika infections in their mothers during pregnancy.

Cassell said the outbreak will be declared over when health officials are sure romaine lettuce from Yuma is no longer on the market.

Earlier this year, when officials from Health Canada appeared before a House of Commons committee, they acknowledged that it is hard to estimate the actual cost but that they knew that the agreement would increase the costs of drugs in Canada.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

Nutrition experts have known for years the health benefits of fresh avocados, and today the FDA is making it official.

Through my writings (books, scholarly articles, popular articles, and website), my lectures at conferences (for physicians, lactation consultants, health departments, and LLL groups), and my university classroom teaching (I manage to work this material into every class, no matter what the official topic might be), I have been able to pass along the lessons I learned from LLL to thousands of people, who in turn have passed them along.

What they may not have known is that ammonia - often associated with cleaning products - was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago and is used in making many foods, including cheese.

USDA inspectors knew about the leak but failed to notify state education or health officials.

District officials do not yet know how much construction will cost, but they will pay for the project from the $ 2.39 million Courts Plus health club reserve fund, Grodsky said.

It's good to know that school officials are also concerned about their students» health and wellness.

Did you know that that cute coordinated crib bumper that came with your infant crib set is a potential hazard for your little one, and that health officials are considering banning them?

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials Friday said there is «some concern» about the health risks to children and babies from the plastics additive known as BPA, but that they won't restrict use of the substance pending further study.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

The IMS Act - known in full as the Indian Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act 1992 - prohibits the payment of health officials by those involved in the supply of breast milk substitutes such as infant formula.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

The residents complained that the state health department has not given them enough answers, and they are also concerned over a news report that said officials in the health department knew about the heightened PFOA levels in the water 18 months before they warned residents of potential dangers.

There have been allegations that officials in Governor Cuomo's health department knew of the PFOA contamination a year and a half before they warned residents.

Health officials say they know a treatment that works to address the opioid epidemic: prescription medication that reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain defects.

Health officials don't know how long it would take to develop an effective vaccine, but say the best way to prevent it is by wearing long sleeves and insect repellent.

In a letter to the Bronx clinic's chairman Wednesday, health officials said Comprehensive Community Development Corp., also known as Soundview, has no compliance program as required to verify claims and costs.

Legislators, both Democrats and Republicans, intently questioned Health Department Commissioner Howard Zucker and other administration officials to find out what they knew about the PFOA contamination — and when.

At 1:30 p.m., Sen. Adriano Espaillat, NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Travis Bassett; Dr. Juan Tapia - Mendoza, and local other local doctors and elected officials, will brief the community on what they need to know to protect themselves from Zika, corner of 135th street and Broadway in the lobby of Pediatrics 2000, Manhattan.

Health officials on Friday reported the first baby born in New York City with the Zika - related birth defect known as microcephaly, a condition marked by an abnormally small head and impaired brain development.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

In a letter, the committee cites other documents that show health department officials knew of the potential contamination for over a year, but did not tell residents that they might be in danger.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

The Washington Post and Times - Herald reported in 1956 that Soviet health officials had declared that penicillin no longer worked against venereal diseases.

The regulation was prompted, federal officials say, by a federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which among other things governs the use of medical records and the protection of patient privacy.

Despite years of attention and funding for flu research, however, health officials are no closer to having an efficient way to flag new animal pathogens that could harm people.

That might cover studies on whether there are genetic changes that would allow Ebola to be transmitted through airborne particles, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, something that is crucial for public health officials to know, he said, but which should not be made public.

Nature and Science last year agreed in principle to redact the papers, on the condition that the US government would develop a mechanism to disseminate the full papers to researchers and health officials on a need - to - know basis.

The journals and the authors have agreed to this redaction, provided that a mechanism is established to disseminate the data to flu researchers and public - health officials on a need - to - know basis.

For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling.

Health officials still don't know what went wrong in Pham's case.

Chronic pain is known to cause brain anatomy changes and impairments, but yoga can be an important tool for preventing or even reversing the effects of chronic pain on the brain, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official speaking at the American Pain Society's annual meeting.

Experts have questioned how officials will be able to measure the effectiveness of an emergency for the opioid crisis and how they will know when to declare it over, given that the opioid epidemic is expected to remain a public health crisis for years to come.

Health officials still don't know the full impact to communities surrounding the World Trade Center, since the few air monitors in New York responsible for testing air quality became clogged during the time or lost power.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging DisHealth Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Dishealth laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

Researchers and health officials still do not even know whether bat - to - bat transmission, bat - to - human transmission or bat - to - other animal - to - human transmission is responsible for the beginning of the current outbreak.

«Health officials need to know the source of the infection, who the infected individual has contacted, where it occurred and the circumstances under which it occurred.

EPA officials said new research shows that the health risks to workers who apply endosulfan to crops «are greater than previously known, in many instances exceeding the agency's levels of concern.»

«We don't know the extent of the public health risk of the current virus and infection and how we can deal with such risks,» said Liang Wannian, an official with China's National Health and Family Planning Commission who co-led the team with Fhealth risk of the current virus and infection and how we can deal with such risks,» said Liang Wannian, an official with China's National Health and Family Planning Commission who co-led the team with FHealth and Family Planning Commission who co-led the team with Fukuda.

Though health officials were already «cutting corners» in an effort to produce an Ebola vaccine, Collins said that a best - case scenario would be for a clinical trial to start in December, and it would take until February or March to know if the drug worked.

An educational program for nurses can help address knowledge gaps related to advance health care directives (AHCDs)-- thus helping to ensure that patients» wishes for care at the end of life are known and respected, reports a paper in the October / December Journal of Christian Nursing, official journal of the Nurses Christian Fellowship.

U.S. health officials reported the first case of what later became known as AIDS in June 1981.

This is something that many doctors and health researchers have already known for decades, but I'm glad to see an official reversal from regulatory organizations (although I personally wouldn't rely on nutrition advice from government organizations without doing some independent research!).

«We want to let those who are affected know we are fully cooperating with health officials to ensure we are doing everything possible to learn if we are responsible and how this could have happened.»

You've no doubt noticed that for about the last 60 years, the majority of health care officials and the media have been telling you saturated fats are bad for your health and lead to a host of negative consequences, like elevated cholesterol, obesity, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease.