Sentences with phrase «public health groups take»

Public health groups take a page from business to understand the developing world's weak demand for drugs and vaccines

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Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiaPublic Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiaHealth (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiapublic health initiahealth initiatives.

The group took out radio and newspaper ads that often linked hom.ose.xuality to pedophilia, and claimed that LGBT people were seeking «special rights» and that hom.ose.xuality is a «public health menace.»

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violHealth Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violhealth, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and public health groups has taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

As you would expect from a government department seeking to effect public health change through a voluntary deal with industry, a wide group of officials have many different meetings with a vast range of stakeholders, and we utterly reject the allegation of anything untoward in the small proportion of those that took place with the alcohol industry.

Given that public health groups are just learning how to construct forecasts, convincing suppliers to take such risks may be a slow process, remarks Zaffran.

Presented at the American Public Health Association conference, they took a bunch of meat - eaters, and split them up into three groups.

A group of 18 doctors, researchers and public health experts jointly urged the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to take action on energy drinks to protect adolescents and children from the possible risks of consuming high amounts of caffeine.

Many school districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy.

«Study group» jamborees, public pronouncements and do - nothing platitudes to the contrary, (ref) groups like the AVMA and the AKC that should be taking action for healthier pets never do — under pressure from cash - focused breeding lobbies and, perhaps, the perverse assumption that breed - related health problems constitute an important veterinary revenue stream.

As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.

It is a threat because the number of historic buildings which are being declared redundant by public sector owners — and this is not just local authorities, but also includes the Ministry of Defence, fire services, health trusts and so on — exceeds the number of community groups and commercial developers able to take them on.»