Sentences with phrase «disease research spending»

Professor Marie - Louise Newell, Head of the Global Health Research Institute at Southampton, says: «The study highlights the demand for a comprehensive overview of where infectious disease research spending is being made on global level to ensure that resources are allocated wisely and funding gaps are avoided.»

Not exact matches

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion for cancer and $ 3.6 billion for infectious diseases.

That cash doesn't include the money PhRMA's spending on the ongoing «Go Boldly» campaign, a series of TV, print and radio ads designed to polish the drug industry's image by reminding the public that drug companies do world - class research that brings disease cures to market to save lives.

They've both spent the last 25 years proving through research and patient studies that a plant - based diet can prevent many standard Western Diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

I just watched as much of the video as I could before gagging on the bullshit, and then had a look at the «research» they link to that talks about how many trillions we will spend on non-communicable diseases in the next 16 years.

In this morning's Daily Record, Dugdale says that the death of her close friend Gordon Aikman, who spent the last months of his life raising cash for research into Motor Neurone Disease, the condition that claimed his life, had forced her to re-evaluate her priorities.

National and local health care officials said cuts in federal spending to combat the Zika virus means fewer pregnant women will be tested and there will be less money available to develop a vaccine and research how the disease affects fetal brains.

So whereas these diseases produce distinct symptoms and billions of dollars have been spent researching potential drugs that target their unique molecular culprits, some scientists are placing their bets on cross-cutting approaches that might work across multiple disorders.

She branched out from lab research after 6 years and spent a couple of years working in field schools with farmers to learn and teach scientific approaches to plant disease and how to curb its spread.

Although no one agrees just how to deal with the knowledge that one is likely to get Alzheimer's, millions of dollars is spent on research into the disease each year.

Vicky Whittemore, the agency's CFS point person in Bethesda, Maryland, delivered on a promise that NIH Director Francis Collins made last year by announcing that NIH spending for research on the poorly understood disease should rise to roughly $ 15 million in 2017, doubling the estimated $ 7.6 million handed out in 2016.

For heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, stroke and breast cancer, Brown's review of the research literature revealed that returns on Medicare expenses ranged from $ 1.10 to $ 4.80 per dollar spent.

The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, which will be set up primarily for the discovery and development of new treatments, vaccines, and cures for tropical diseases, will spend SG$ 220 million on research over the next 5 to 10 years.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

When McKnight was research director at Tularik, which is targeting cancer and other diseases with drugs that alter the cell's production of specific proteins, he spent 30 % to 40 % of his time scraping together dollars.

By calculating the amount spent on researching respiratory infections and their mortality rates, the study authors were able to assess UK public and charitable sector investment against the global burden of the diseases.

Alongside disease burden data, it will chart spending within disease areas, highlight the investment by each country (relative to the disease burden), demonstrate the impact of research funding and highlight research gaps globally and nationally.

«Researchers to map impact of infectious diseases against research spending.»

Dr Prince said: «Women with coronary artery disease spend less time sitting for long periods but we need to do more research to understand why.

Because funding for research on amphibians and reptiles was scarce, they spent several years researching infectious diseases of poultry and pigs, while working on turtles and salamanders after hours.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

The money adds to the $ 448 million that the NIH was allocated to spend on the disease this year, and roughly half of it is already being used by scientists funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute on Aging.

Research conducted in Nantucket, Massachusetts suggests that educational interventions can lower the incidence of Lyme disease between 20 % and 60 % depending on the length of time people spend outdoors in areas where ticks are active.

All institutes within the agency received generous increases, but none more so than the National Institute on Aging, which secured an additional $ 401 million in new spending to carry out research on Alzheimer's disease.

Prior to that, Graziano spent five years working in academic research at New York University's School of Medicine, studying oncology and cardiovascular diseases.

In light of spending cuts and concern over the UK's ability to translate world - class stem cell research into therapies to help treat disease, the SMC invited the Science Minster and several top stem cell scientists to brief journalists on the state of the sector.

Prior to her work at Sabin, Stoever spent several years managing clinical research studies in cancer and infectious diseases.

A Department of Health spokesperson said: «The Department of Health believes that stem cell research offers enormous potential to deliver new treatments for diseases and is spending more than # 40m a year on all types of research.

11 / Dec / 2013 Rudy Tanzi, PhD, co-discovered the first three genes for familial Alzheimer's Disease, and as Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, he has spent the past 20 years finding yet more clues to the causes of the dDisease, and as Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, he has spent the past 20 years finding yet more clues to the causes of the diseasedisease.

Billions and billions of research dollars are spent each year trying to find a cure for these diseases, when in many cases the cause is entirely related to a loss of traditional knowledge and practices.

She founded Thehypothyroidismchick.com so no one else would have to feel alone with these diseases — or spend their life savings and countless hours researching — like she did.

In preparation for that event, I spent six months researching deep into the medical literature to pull together the most up - to - date, key points for preventing and treating autoimmune disease.

He spent more than 50 years researching and proving that hypothyroidism was the underlying cause of heart disease today.

This is why I spend countless hours scouring the latest research for ways to reverse autoimmune disease.

She has spent the past 8 years recovering, advocating and caring for her family and researching tick - borne diseases.

I spend the last weekend at a conference put together by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and listened to the medical professionals and yoga therapists share their research and experience working with students with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.

She founded Thyroid Loving Care so no one else would have to feel alone with these diseases — or spend their life savings and countless hours researching — like she did.

To put it in perspective: you can treat every American with heart disease or diabetes, immunize every child in the world, and double the amount of money spent on cancer research, and you will have only spent half the money.

I have spent all my time since researching the disease, but I can't really figure out what is the exact cause of death in distemper.

As an accomplished equine internist, infectious disease specialist, and equine neonatologist, Madigan has spent his career devoted to research discovery of disorders and diseases affecting large animals, and developing equipment and methods for animal rescue while expanding the field of veterinary disaster medicine.

So the BIG money the US government flushes down the fossil drain changing dirty bandages that address the symptoms of high prices at the pump every day, that outstrips the amount spent every decade on research to study the disease of fossil waste, that doesn't count for your purposes?

As the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and having spent more than two decades doing sleep research, Walker says there is a strong connection between lack of sleep and disease.

«While CRISP - ER is optimized to research projects involving biological weapons agents, it can be used by anyone with an interest in National Institutes of Health research, for example, to research spending on biotechnology, biodiversity, specific diseases, or in specific locations.»