Sentences with phrase «access to medicine for»

A Huffington Post blog notes, «Jarvis also worked for universal access to medicine for the poor [and was] a pacifist who served both sides in the Civil War by working for camp sanitation and medical care for soldiers of the North and the South.»

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How to limit the scarring and collapse of veins when medicine or fluids are injected into them over time, limiting access for further treatments.
A spokesperson for the drug company told the Financial Times that revenue from increased prices would go to investing in «schemes that ensured more patients could access the medicine
John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.
Americares helps communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, increase access to medicine and medical supplies, improve and expand clinical services, prevent disease and promote good health.
The EMA has an adaptive pathways program which allows for early and progressive patient access to a medicine.
In a statement, it wrote that «any allegations of disregard for consumers who need these lifesaving drugs, government officials, regulators or any other of our valued stakeholders are patently false and wholly inconsistent with the company's culture, mission and track record of delivering access to medicine
More local staff members have been added as Americares expands its working network, developing and implementing plans with local organizations and free clinics to provide access to medicine, relief supplies and basic health care for people in crisis.
It's a good thing for him that his religious leader kept the post as head of medicine at his hospital or he might not have access to such relevant and accurate medical science...
In a decision that should chill the blood of everyone who believes in religious freedom, the court stated: «That the new rules prohibit all improper reasons for refusal to dispense medication... suggests that the purpose of the new rules was not to eliminate religious objections to delivery of lawful medicines but to eliminate all objections that do not ensure patient health, safety, and access to medication.
Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, global packaging director for the Mintel Group, said, «Helping consumers understand the importance of packaging [is a challenge], whether it's in food, drink, medicine or just giving them economical access to the products that they need every day... to make their lives easier, more convenient, safer and make them feel more confident not only about the products they buy, but the role packaging plays in helping ensure that those products maintain their freshness, their quality and their efficacy.»
The Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine, VCRM, stands solidly in place to restore reproductive balance in your life, empowering men and women, singles and couples, with the very latest fertility treatments and access to a skilled and caring physician to direct your care.
HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.
At the Genetics & Metabolism Division at Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children in downtown Boston, we offer patients of all ages access to the latest information and developments in genetic medicine.
The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.
Animal medicines are equally subject to the stringent regulatory controls of their human counterparts, also regulated using the EMA, and it is vital for both the UK and EU that there is cooperation on animal medicines innovation, safety, regulation, access and supply.
An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
«Government mandates and interventions that do nothing to help patients access their medicines are not the solution,» said Priscilla VanderVeer, deputy vice president for public affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America.
As a result, waiting times are higher in Wales, cancer patients are being denied life - prolonging drugs which they would have access to if they lived in England, and spending on medicines has «decreased at a faster rate than elsewhere in the UK», according to the Office for Health Economics.
On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it does not endorse the Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.
But we are keen to say if there are opportunities for our medicines to be accelerated in terms of access in the developing world, and if the systems are capable of using them, then we want to make sure that's being done.
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The portal now offers easy navigation of Science's table of contents for quick access to the most recent scientific research published in Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Signaling — plus an option to sign up for Science's E-mail Alert in Japanese featuring research highlights from all three journals.
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Reconciling calls for greater access to medicines with intellectual property protections for the private sector, for instance, present a significant challenge that will need to be addressed by those involved in the U.N. process as it moves forward.
«Although safety and effectiveness in treating episodic and chronic migraine still have to be confirmed in phase three studies, I am confident that we will have access to new medicines that have been specifically developed for this indication to help us tackle the problem of primary headache,» Prof Sprenger added.
In response to repeated calls for an integrated and coordinated emergency and trauma care system in the U.S., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists and UPMC physicians rose to the challenge and divided the nation into hundreds of referral regions that describe how patients access advanced care, in a way that respects geopolitical borders.
«This is the first national study to identify specific regions of the United States where residents may be at an increased risk for poor clinical outcomes — including misdiagnoses and late detection — as a result of limited access to specialized gynecologic cancer care,» says David Shalowitz, MD, a fellow in the division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and lead author on the study.
Whereas these advances have a great potential for research and medicine, they pose a fundamental ethical, legal and social challenge: determining whether or under what conditions it is legitimate to gain access to or interfere with another person's neural activity.
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«Progress in genomic research has already begun to transform modern medicine,» said Tracey DePellegrin, executive editor of G3, which, like its sister journal GENETICS also published by Genetics Society of America, promotes full data sharing and dissemination for scientific reseachers, «and this progress is contingent on scientists being able to access the genomic sequences, now available through dbGaP.
«The most obvious challenge, of course, is the sheer volume of data that could be created and the difficulties in managing, organizing and providing access to that data,» said Jerry Sheehan, assistant director for policy development at the National Library of Medicine, an arm of the National Institutes of Health.
The Institute of Medicine concluded last May that no claim could be made for a causal link between mercury - laced vaccines and autism, but several independent researchers had complained that their access to federal vaccine databases, which could provide evidence of a link, had been repeatedly blocked.
Fourth, the world should adopt a plan for comprehensive malaria control, aiming to bring malaria mortality nearly to zero by 2012 through comprehensive access to antimalaria bed nets, indoor spraying where appropriate, and effective medicines when malarial illness arises.
The government provides subsidized livestock that covers 13 % of the farmers» annual needs, as well as free medicine and vaccines for their animals as well as access to protected pastures.
iBET's infrastructure comprises 16 laboratories fully equipped with state - of - the - art technology (70 m2 each), including a BSL2 laboratory for working with viruses; a GMP Analytical Services Unit certified by the INFARMED (the Portuguese medicines authority, EMA Portuguese branch) and by DGAV (the Portuguese veterinary authority) for quality control and batch release of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals as well as experimental new drugs; a GMP Mass - Spectroscopy Unit that provides state - of - the - art MS services to the scientific community and Industry; a 2600 m2 bio-pilot plant supporting production and purification of proteins ATMPs and vaccines from bench top to 300 L scale and privileged access to GeniBET Biopharmaceuticals, an iBET spin - off producing ATMPs under cGMP certification for phase I / II / III clinical trials.
UC San Diego stroke team doctors can access the telemedicine system — pioneered at UC San Diego in collaboration with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Qualcomm and BF - Technologies, Inc. — from any location with an Internet connection, enabling them to rapidly connect with an emergency medicine practitioner, the patient and perhaps their family members at the «spoke.»
Dr. Eng presented this year's Herrera Lecture on «Genetics and Genomics - Based Personalized Healthcare: Something Old, Something New» where she gave a historical perspective of personalized medicine, and then detailed the last 6 - years» experience of the Genomic Medicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized heamedicine, and then detailed the last 6 - years» experience of the Genomic Medicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized heaMedicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized healthcare.
For patients with existing clinic appointments, access to the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) and Comer Children's Hospital will be allowFor patients with existing clinic appointments, access to the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) and Comer Children's Hospital will be allowfor Advanced Medicine (DCAM) and Comer Children's Hospital will be allowed.
With a reputation for world - renowned expertise in regenerative medicine, this not - for - profit enterprise was built around an academic consortium that delivers a robust pipeline of discoveries and access to intellectual property (IP).
Bringing on Rajkovic is a key step in hastening access to the benefits of precision medicine for UCSF Health patients, said Institute for Human Genetics director Neil Risch, PhD, who co-chaired the search committee with Norton.
As part of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, Robarts Research Institute provides a unique learning experience for graduate students that goes beyond access to state - of - the - art research facilities and training by internationally recognized leaders in clinical and basic medical science research.
Links to online resources for employees of Penn Medicine, including the UPHS Intranet, Web Mail, Remote Access Portal, and UPHS Mobile Phonebook.
September 25, 2015 UChicago Medicine, Edward - Elmhurst Health strengthen pediatric affiliation Edward - Elmhurst Health and the University of Chicago Medicine have reached an agreement to expand access to advanced subspecialty care for infants and children in west and southwest suburban communities.
We provide access to multiple data bases of authoritative, up to date reviews on the evidence and safety for the use of herbs, supplements, vitamins, and minerals, as well as other complementary medicine modalities.
The joint venture expands the surgical procedures that Michigan Medicine provides at St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea, as well as increases access to Michigan Medicine physicians for patients in Chelsea and across western Washtenaw County.
December 17, 2015 The University of Chicago Medicine announces historic community plan to strengthen access to care for Chicago's South Side UChicago plan includes a level 1 adult trauma center on its campus; new and expanded ER; and increase in hospital beds to meet community needs.
July 1, 2015 UChicago Medicine, Little Company of Mary expand pediatric partnership: Affiliation to boost community access to specialty care for infants and children The University of Chicago Medicine and Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers are partnering to expand care for infants and children by developing a subspecialty center on the community hospital's Evergreen Park campus that will provide enhanced neonatology and pediatric services.
She is also passionate about creating access for natural medicine to all populations, which fueled the development of her non-profit mobile medical clinic.
Whether your lifestyle dictates the need for concierge - style 24/7 access to your personal physician or direct - access medicine for yourself or your family, you'll find it here.
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