Sentences with phrase «most health funds»

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Schneider's vision to make women's health more transparent has attracted $ 15.5 million in venture capital funding and a cult - like following most vitamin companies can't boast.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

From health care to retail, private funds, and beyond, what are the most lucrative investment opportunities in China and where should investors place their future bets?

Younger is a leader for women's health, safety and economic security, and most notably, was a leader of Prosperity Together, the initiative announced at the White House in November that will provide $ 118 million in funding for women and girls of color.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

When to claim Social Security benefits will be one of the most important decisions that you make regarding your retirement, along with how to take retirement income from your various retirement accounts and how you will fund your health care needs in retirement.

The Fund holdings that detracted most were Square Enix (Japan), Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Daimler (Germany), Health Net (U.S.), and Rohm (Japan).

Investors need to tread carefully when considering Health Care funds as most are not worth buying.

Traction puts venture capitalists center stage as they narrow down the most competitive health tech startups that are currently seeking Series A funding to pitch at Health 2.0's Annual Fall Confehealth tech startups that are currently seeking Series A funding to pitch at Health 2.0's Annual Fall ConfeHealth 2.0's Annual Fall Conference.

Why provide funding when they don't believe in the most ordinary practices in public health and medicine?

Congress is considering using a health care bill or other legislation to cut most of Planned Parenthood's federal funding and direct it to federally qualified health centers that do not perform abortions.

Health Insurance companies, like most Big Business tend to fund Republicans, not Democrats.

We have went through most of our savings with my health costs lately as well so we are pretty conservative with our funds.

The most comprehensive methodology for testing the chemical composition of unrecorded alcohol products was developed as part of the Alcohol Measures for Public Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA) project, a collaboration among 13 EU member states funded by the European Commission.

It regularly participates in projects which focus on the health effects of grain - based food ingredients — most recently, GoodMills Innovation was an industry partner in the EU - funded HealthGrain and HealthBread projects.

New research led by Healthy Dining and funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reveals that restaurant consumers accept, and in most cases even prefer, menu choices that were reduced in sodium content.

And the only reason why that trade - off is palatable for so many adults is because the most serious health consequences of a junk - food - rich diet generally won't manifest themselves until long after kids graduate from the schools they helped fund with their junk food purchases.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

Keeping reproductive health on the agenda The MSI Partnership welcomes European and international initiatives, including the Global Fund, to address the world's three most prevalent communicable diseases: HIV / AIDS, TB and Malaria.

... And given that the drive for additional funding to the most deprived regions is to close the gaps in health, child poverty and economic performance we need to find ways of ensuring that the additional investment does narrow those gaps and not simply cushion the running of revenue based services.

«GNYHA will continue to push for fair and equitable solutions, including the creation of a health insurance guarantee fund — which most states already have — to cover past amounts owed and potential future exigencies.»

He also has her regularly sit in on policy and staff meetings and handed her official posts, from chair of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to the head of a major mental - health initiative that provides services in the most needy neighborhoods.

[44][45][46] To this day, most people in the United Kingdom see the 1948 creation of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) under health minister Aneurin Bevan, which gave publicly funded medical treatment for all, as Labour's proudest achievHealth Service (NHS) under health minister Aneurin Bevan, which gave publicly funded medical treatment for all, as Labour's proudest achievhealth minister Aneurin Bevan, which gave publicly funded medical treatment for all, as Labour's proudest achievement.

Money from the fund supports some of the state's most important safety net programs --» the State's Medicaid program, Family Health Plus, workforce recruitment and retention, the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program, Child Health Plus (CHP), Graduate Medical Education, AIDS programs, disproportionate share payments to hospitals and other various public health initiatives,» according to the state's financialHealth Plus, workforce recruitment and retention, the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program, Child Health Plus (CHP), Graduate Medical Education, AIDS programs, disproportionate share payments to hospitals and other various public health initiatives,» according to the state's financialHealth Plus (CHP), Graduate Medical Education, AIDS programs, disproportionate share payments to hospitals and other various public health initiatives,» according to the state's financialhealth initiatives,» according to the state's financial plan.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: «Radiotherapy is one of the most clinically and cost - effective treatments for cancer and this funding will bring our additional investment in radiotherapy over the Spending Review period to # 165 million.»

Diaz has been one of the most vocal advocates against cutting funding for health care, education, and other social services.

Unlike most states, New York shares its portion of Medicaid costs with the counties, and the trend lines should concern every taxpayer: With federal economic stimulus funds running out and federal health insurance changes, 16 million more Americans are expected join the 60 million now enrolled in Medicaid by 2014.

Some 37,000 New Yorkers have signed up for coverage on the state's new health exchange, and most of them are enrolling in taxpayer - funded Medicaid.

«In a three - way race, I think that a candidate who wants a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, health care for all, a Green New Deal to provide full employment while acting on climate change, and who supports progressive taxes to adequately funds our schools and local governments will have the most support among the voters,» stated Hawkins.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has gotten a lot of push - back over his handling of a spiraling homeless population so far during his tenure, but now his administration is preparing to introduce his most comprehensive homeless - services plan to date: Nearly $ 3 billion in funding for about 15,000 units of supportive housing and accompanying social and health services for all participants.

«He has been a vocal champion for pre-k funding and for additional state aid for education, and a proponent of Community Schools, which put needed health and community services where they have the most impact — inside city school,» said Mr. Mulgrew.

When the proposed cuts were announced on Thursday, City Councilmember Maragret Chin released a statement saying, «Governor Cuomo's budget again and again targets the most vulnerable members of our community... Cutting funds for senior citizens severs a lifeline to integral health care, nutrition, and counseling services.»

«Health insurance is the most effective way of ensuring access to healthcare when needed and at the same time funding our healthcare system, and ensuring that healthcare personnel are well rewarded.

«The bill's $ 5.5 trillion in spending cuts focus mostly on Republican's favorite targets, programs crucial to low - income families and the middle class: health care programs, funding for higher education, assistance for the families that need it the most, and infrastructure investment.

In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS MedHealth Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medhealth challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medicine.

«Most HIV drugs target the virus,» said Huang, assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine, which ranked No. 1 in National Institutes of Health funds received per principal investigator in 2016.

Predictably, most of the government funding opportunities in GrantsNet come from the agencies with the largest research budgets: the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and NASA.

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.

The funding is most likely to come by expanding existing programs at the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and elsewhere that could financially support a lot more qualified scientists than they currently do.

«The PHI model helps ensure that funding for prevention programs is proportionate to the health risks affecting the most people,» said Simoes, chair of the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the health risks affecting the most people,» said Simoes, chair of the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the Health Management and Informatics at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Most of the largest, often government, funders — for example, US National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Energy, HHMI, and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)-- sponsor early - career fellowships.

«Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life - threatening condition unidentified,» said the latter paper's lead study author, Tony Rosen, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. «A multi-disciplinary, team - based approach supported by additional research and funding has the potential to improve the identification of elder abuse and improve the health and safety of our most vulnerable patients.»

In the United States, most graduate and postgraduate toxicology training is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), particularly the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which provides training grants to universities.

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.

But given the mishmash of chronic diseases and risk factors and the current economic climate, even the most hopeful of health advocates didn't hope for a global fund such as that established for AIDS in 2001 following the summit.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

Ninth, the Global Fund should open a new financing mechanism to bolster primary health care, including — most important — the construction of clinics and the hiring and training of nurses and community health workers.

Before the latest funding, Feeney's most recent gift to the campus was to UCSF Global Health Sciences, enabling the October 2014 opening of Mission Hall, which houses global health researchers, scientists and students under the same roof for the firstHealth Sciences, enabling the October 2014 opening of Mission Hall, which houses global health researchers, scientists and students under the same roof for the firsthealth researchers, scientists and students under the same roof for the first time.