Sentences with phrase «as public health threats»

Eventually, the effort might lead to a way to predict new pathogens before they emerge as public health threats.

Food Waste as a Public Health Threat?

«These efforts will enable countries to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals,» the report said.

The microbeads are also said to attract and absorb persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs, recognized as a public health threat and already present in the Hudson River.

Boosting the capacity to monitor the HCV epidemic can move the nation toward eliminating HCV as a public health threat in the United States.»

A new Journal of Internal Medicine study describes an innovative program to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health threat in Iceland.

Still, it took decades to eliminate rabid dogs as a public health threat in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere.

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) is a private entity dedicated to promoting the «endocrine issue» as a public health threat with policymakers, regulators, advocates and the public.

The European Commission released their Falsified Medicines Directive in 2011 which established counterfeit medicines as a public health threat and called for stricter penalties for producing and selling counterfeit medicines.

Still, it took decades to eliminate rabid dogs as a public health threat in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere.

If Pruitt choses to replace the CPP with a less rigorous regulation, it could mean the EPA would delay or abandoned efforts to fight the 2009 endangerment finding, which orders the agency to regulate carbon as a public health threat.

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) last week called for an end to the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.

Not exact matches

The bottomline is that loneliness is becoming increasingly recognized as a threat to public health.

Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how politically fraught the issue is.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

Public policies that treat every member as integral to the entire family's health will diffuse the destructive tendency toward narcissism which is the real threat to family stability and strength.

With the right funding commitments in place, the Global Fund can help ensure that no child is born with HIV by 2015, that we end the public health threat of malaria as we know it, and emerging drug resistant strains of TB are brought under control.»

However, it is sheds full of thousands of animals living with their own excrement that are the real source of a massive public health threat — those sheds are «food for flu» as evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace states.

The United Nations recently recognised the threat of these non-communicable diseases as a global public health crisis, and called for decisive preventative action from government leaders.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

As you are aware, drug abuse has social and economic repercussions and poses a threat to public health security, and so my outfit would do its best to come up with measures to curb the menace, he said.

«If elected, I pledge to immediately direct DEC to half this and all other fossil fuel infrastructure projects as a threat to public health and safety.

As appropriate, these data are shared with local healthcare officials and providers to keep them aware of current and potential threats to the public's health.

But as Bassett sees it, her job is as much about confronting the «enduring disparities» that characterize public health in New York City as it is about responding to sudden threats.

«Fight the Bite» Signs Alert Public to Mosquito and Tick Threats The Oneida County Health Department has received 84 signs alerting the public to «Fight the Bite» and the threat of mosquito and tick - borne diseases such as West Nile Virus (WNV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and Lyme DiPublic to Mosquito and Tick Threats The Oneida County Health Department has received 84 signs alerting the public to «Fight the Bite» and the threat of mosquito and tick - borne diseases such as West Nile Virus (WNV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and Lyme Dipublic to «Fight the Bite» and the threat of mosquito and tick - borne diseases such as West Nile Virus (WNV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and Lyme Disease.

Public Health Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disaHealth Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disasters.

«As long as childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social serviceAs long as childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social serviceas childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social services.

Delaware County Public Health is holding a «Medical Countermeasures» drill today to practice and test the ability to dispense large amounts of medicine in the event of a public health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the commPublic Health is holding a «Medical Countermeasures» drill today to practice and test the ability to dispense large amounts of medicine in the event of a public health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the commHealth is holding a «Medical Countermeasures» drill today to practice and test the ability to dispense large amounts of medicine in the event of a public health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the commpublic health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the commhealth threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the community.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Christie said last year that parents should have a «measure of choice,» as «not every vaccine is created equal and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others.»

But it was another frightening viral outbreak — the West Africa Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 — that was never far from his mind as he spoke about this new threat to international public health.

Researchers are now finding that more than the lungs are at risk, as dirty air may in fact be an accomplice to some of the greatest threats to public health, including diabetes, obesity and even dementia.

But, Myers says, «the bottom line is, we know that rising CO2 reduces the concentration of critical nutrients around the world,» adding that these kinds of nutritional deficiencies are already significant public health threats, and will only worsen as CO2 levels go up.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

«The scope of the epidemic and the fact that cases were imported into the United States and Europe reinforces the importance of these viruses as pathogens and public health threats, and drives home for us the idea that we need to be looking really seriously at ways we can translate our basic science into potential therapeutics.

Furthermore, they suggest that the public would be better off spending time and energy battling mosquitoes, which pose a more severe threat to human health than the spiders do because of their ability to transmit viruses such as Chikungunya and pathogens that cause diseases.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

In the current fiscal environment there is also concern from some public health offices that dollars allocated to detecting biological threats through BioWatch may be competing with the ones needed to provide complementary information to help detect threats — such as picking up any uptick in certain symptoms at hospitals through robust health surveillance.

«Our next step is to test Alphamers in animal models of infection with multidrug - resistant bacteria that pose a public health threat, such as MRSA,» said first author Sascha Kristian, PhD, visiting research scholar at UC San Diego and associate research director at Altermune Technologies, a company Mullis founded to develop Alphamers into unique therapeutics.

In a quickly executed study that reflects the global public health threat posed by Zika, the researchers compared Zika's effect on cells known as cortical neural progenitor cells to two other cell types: induced pluripotent stem cells and immature neurons.

Southern Research scientists joined the front lines in the battle against HIV / AIDS in 1986, not long after the deadly viral infection emerged as a terrifying new public health threat in -LSB-...]

As part of his dissertation he synthesized these results with other studies associated with mercury cycling, public health threats and policy alternatives to bring attention to the threats and need for an improved public policy dealing with mercury pollution.

For this reason, H. pylori is considered a major threat to public health, and is officially classified as a carcinogen by the World Health Organizhealth, and is officially classified as a carcinogen by the World Health OrganizHealth Organization.

It's important that we identify this as a serious public health threat and start addressing them!

One - third of the 12 resistant pathogens that CDC categorized as a «serious» threat to public health are found in food.»

At a time when physical inactivity poses as big a threat to public health as smoking, it's hugely important that children have time, space and opportunity to be active.

At a time when physical inactivity poses as big a threat to public health as smoking, it's hugely important that children have time, space and opportunity to be active and schools have a vital part to play.

Section 2302 (b)(8) of Title 5, United States Code, as amended by the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (governing disclosures of illegality, waste, fraud, abuse or public health or safety threats);