Sentences with phrase «u.s. public health experts»

The virus is spreading rapidly in the region, raising fears among U.S. public health experts that it may soon make an appearance in the States.

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As with the U.S. based program, Worlds of Healthy Flavors ASIA brought together a top nutrition expert and selected chefs to present healthy cooking and menu strategies that can work to preserve the delicious, celebratory aspects of dining while at the same time addressing a host of public health imperatives.

But public health experts say the market is larger — perhaps far larger — than the $ 300 million to $ 400 million estimate by the U.S. General Accounting Office in 1988, the last time government made an effort to quantify the problem.

Public health leaders, including many experts at U-M, correctly predicted that the U.S. would be well equipped to handle Ebola if it reached the country, and could keep the disease from being the threat it was in Africa and other nations that have less sophisticated health care systems.

The researchers and the journals agreed, provided that the U.S. government comes up with a mechanism to share those details with bona fide researchers and public health experts.

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.

For years, consumer advocates and public health experts have fought to limit the use of hormones in cows, and some support a ban on the practice similar to the one in place in Europe, where food regulations are generally more stringent than in the U.S.

KIND Snacks, with support from nutrition and public health experts, has filed a Citizen Petition urging the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to update its regulations around using the term «healthy» in food labeling.

This week, the nation's top public health experts gathered at a much - trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation.

Public health experts estimate that should a flu pandemic occur, 90 million people in the U.S. alone will become ill and over 200,000 may die as a result of a moderate pandemic flu scenario.

As a U.S. senator, Carmona can bring his lifetime of experience as a physician and public - health expert to the legislature.