Sentences with phrase «epidemic in»

1 in 9 is an advocacy organization that keeps the concerns about the breast cancer epidemic in the forefront.

HIV Epidemic in Asia: Impilcations for HIV Vaccine and Other Prevention Trials.

«We learned to breed them in captivity and are now releasing Atelopus varius in areas where the epidemic has passed, so it is extremely important for us to realize that the defenses of these frogs may be weaker than the defenses of frogs that survived the epidemic in the wild,» said Roberto Ibáñez, study co-author, STRI staff scientist, and in - country director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.

Some recent research has suggested that the exceptional heat and drought in the area may actually have helped fuel the rise of the Zika virus epidemic in the region.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is unprecedented and has taken a drastic toll on human life.

Using this method, the researchers revealed that the death risk of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in the Republic of Korea for patients with an illness prior to MERS infection was as high as 48.2 % for those over 60 years while it was below 15 % for younger patients.

Dr. Raney and colleagues outline strategies that pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can follow to minimize the impact of the opioid epidemic in children and teens undergoing surgery.

H58 emerged as the most successful strain, triggering a large epidemic in which up to 800 cases occurred per year, with a 3 % case fatality.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

NACSO began trying to tackle the epidemic in Caprivi in 2004, recruiting members of the local committees that manage its conservancies to serve as «peer educators».

Safe and effective vaccines could help end the ongoing Ebola virus disease epidemic in parts of West Africa and stop future outbreaks of the virus.

The World Health Organization will start using vaccine in April to stem the epidemic in Haiti, although stocks are too low to provide for everyone

The findings, he says, could also help explain the obesity epidemic in countries like China, where the children of poorly nourished mothers are now obese, middle - aged adults.

Read more about the state of the epidemic in Eastern Europe this week in Science magazine's special section on HIV / AIDS.

The epidemic in the city of Aralsk, Kazakhstan, on the northern shore of the Aral Sea, struck 10 people, killing three.

«It's very easy to set off a false epidemic in psychiatry,» said Frances.

Fischbeck, Michelle Tom, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, and Chris Hendrickson, the Hamerschlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environment.

Herd immunity could drive the Zika epidemic in South and Central America to an end, but some 93 million people could be infected before then

They found that the prevalence of syphilis plummeted in a number of countries where it had remained high around the time of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1990s.

The AIDS epidemic in the US has spawned a new breed of patients who expect to be involved in the political, scientific and medical decisions surrounding their treatment.

Many Russian nongovernmental organizations work on the prevention of the HIV epidemic in collaboration with U.S. institutions, but the massive HIV - prevention campaigns the Russian government undertook some years ago seem to have disappeared.

Fernández warns, «Given the obesity epidemic in the US and worldwide, an increase in those affected by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is expected in the coming decades and we still do not have a suitable treatment for this condition; A fundamental understanding of this medical problem is therefore essential for development of novel treatment strategies.»

«As we look to implement the next five years of the National HIV / AIDS Strategy, we hope that state officials and community stakeholders see this as a useful tool to help strengthen their HIV programs and make further progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic in America.»

But the epidemic in Utah may be unprecedented in North America for the masses of birds killed over a broad geographic area and for the number of bald eagles affected, said McFarlane.

Recent estimates of the reproduction number for the ongoing Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia range between 1.5 and 2 (two new cases for each single case), indicating that the outbreak is yet to be brought under control.

One side effect of the obesity epidemic in America is rarely noted: Women's chests are expanding nearly as fast as their bellies.

South Africa is home to the largest HIV epidemic in the world with a total of 5.6 million people living with HIV.

Around the same time, President Barack Obama spoke of the unlikelihood of an Ebola epidemic in the U.S., a powerful reassurance echoed by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They highlight an economic assessment based on a mathematical model adapted to the UK HIV epidemic in men who have sex with men suggests that providing targeted PrEP to this group from 2016 would be cost - effective at current prices, or without targeted implementation if Truvada was half the price.

«Those of us who work in hospital intensive care units need to make sure we have the tools we need to help patients with opioid use disorders when they are at their sickest, because there doesn't appear to be any end to this epidemic in sight.»

Bjork had an unusually optimistic assessment about the opportunities to curb the epidemic in remote River Gee County, home to some 70,000 of Liberia's 4.3 million inhabitants.

«There is a lot of variability like this in east and Southeast Asia, so [there is] lots of opportunity for an epidemic in one country to seed an epidemic in another nearby country and then flow out of the region,» Smith says.

Isolating the sickest Ebola - infected individuals before they progress into their late phase of illness can effectively eliminate the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, according to a modeling study being published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Five of London Zoo's greater kudus — a type of African antelope — have now been diagnosed as having BSE, the «mad cow disease» that has become epidemic in Britain.

Consequently, the employees with sit - stand desks burned up to 87 more calories a day than their sitting counterparts — a small but significant amount that researchers say could be important in fighting the obesity epidemic in the United States.

«If nearly everyone with HIV in the U.S. were in care, on medication and virally suppressed, we would stop the epidemic in its tracks,» says Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, chief of the MGH Division of Infectious Diseases and senior author of the report.

To test the reliability of alternative data streams, researchers tracked and analyzed reports from public health authorities and reputable media outlets posted via social media or their websites during the 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea.

Many countries ignored similar recommendations during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and imposed what WHO saw as unnecessary and even counterproductive travel and trade restrictions.

«Rising tobacco epidemic in Asia linked to elevated risk of death.»

Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza.

Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate professor of environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.

«This is the future of the HIV epidemic in this country,» Frieden said.

Scientists say the vaccine could help to finally bring an end to the epidemic in West Africa, now more than 18 months old.

«Women bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa.

«I don't think we'll be able to slow the HIV epidemic in South Africa without something to protect them.»

An emerging virus that is causing an unprecedented epidemic in Brazil and is quickly spreading through Latin America may be responsible for a spike in severe birth defects.

The participants in the group with «explicit conditions» read an article with explicitly false information — the Zika epidemic in Brazil was caused by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes by a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company that was hoping to profit from a future vaccine.

Increasing exposure to outdoor light is the key to reducing the myopia (short - sightedness) epidemic in children, according to ground - breaking research by Australian optometrists.

These factors created an epidemic in the U.S., with 11 percent of all school - age children diagnosed with ADHD.

The first outbreak of WNV in Greece was recorded in 2010 and was considered to be the largest epidemic in Europe since the 1996 outbreak in Romania.