Sentences with phrase «epidemic since»

If you had to take one supplement for acne, and make no mistake that there's tons of viable options, I would recommend vitamin D. Deficiency is an epidemic since Westerners get much less sunlight these days.

It's been a growing epidemic since the 80's, and obesity related deaths are growing by the day.

But an overuse of antibiotics is becoming a real epidemic since these can alter the gut flora of children and ultimately lower their immunity.

He also agreed with the comparison made by Tom Frieden, head of the CDC, who recently said the current Ebola crisis is the worst epidemic since the outbreak of AIDS.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that millions are infected with HIV worldwide and that it is the most devastating epidemic since the influenza pandemic of 1918.

Recently, I had a very thought - provoking conversation with Judge Mike Powers, who has been on the front lines of epidemic since he started a drug court in the Town of Clarence.

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Since the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, in which 49 people died, the entire media ecosystem — from late - night comedians to TV anchors to newspapers — have been focused on America's gun violence epidemic.

Despite growing concern about the opioid epidemic, the top ten leading causes of death have remained the same since 2015.

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the nation's opioid epidemic a public health emergency, the first time since 2010 that the federal government has designated such an emergency nationwide.

The startup might be better off differentiating itself anyway, since the name BioBots is a popular one: A company called Biobot Analytics compiles data on the opioid epidemic, and Advanced Solutions Life Sciences manufactures a 3 - D bioprinter called the BioBot that's also used for producing tissue.

Since 2005, soda sales have dropped steadily, as more and more evidence points to sugar as the leading culprit in North America's obesity and diabetes epidemics.

About 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated cities.

The problem of military personnel struggling in the job market was a tremendous societal burden after combat in Vietnam ended in 1975, and joblessness and homelessness have been epidemic issues among returning veterans every year since.

WASP — there are alternate methods and medications to regulate hormones that are probably safer for women in the long run since the pill is linked to the increasing epidemic of breast cancer.

Since 2014, Cardinal Pell has been responsible for draining the Vatican financial swamp of corruptions that had become epidemic, ingrained, and virtually institutionalized.

A national increase in deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug abuse has caused overall life expectancy to decline for the first time since the AIDS epidemic.

Fortunately, Liz and I should soon outgrow the epidemic, since mobility is at its peak among twentysomethings.

Due to an epidemic of mites, a quarter of North America's wild and domestic honeybees have disappeared since 1988, with a cost to American farmers of US$ 5.7 billion per year64.

Whilst that does not make Cahill immune to criticism the pessimism and moaning from some fans has been at epidemic levels since the first day of the season.

Since the launch of Operation S.A.F.E. or «Saving Addicts from Epidemic,» the Broome County DA's office says it has enrolled 148 people who are getting treatment for addiction all around the country.

The mayoral candidate called on the FDA to change rules that have been in place since the AIDS epidemic.

«We have come a long way since the early days of the epidemic.

Erie County Attorney Michael Siragusa said he has been working with an outside law firm since November to craft a suit holding drug manufacturers accountable for the painful toll the opioid and heroin epidemic has had on the region.

Those are the highest weekly numbers since the epidemic began nine weeks ago.

Partnering with the U.S. Attorney's office, the county since March has visited four high schools to show «Chasing the Dragon,» followed by a panel to give high school students perspective on how the opioid epidemic has impacted families, law enforcement, the DEA and others.

She said much has changed locally since County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz declared the opioid epidemic a public health crisis two years ago.

Since 2004, Jedryczka's System for Forecasting Disease Epidemics (SPEC) has grown to be the largest rapeseed pathogen - monitoring network in the world.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

Since the epidemic began last October, there have been cholera cases in 21 of 23 of Yemen's governorates.

According to the researchers, the origin of syphilis has been hotly debated since the first recorded epidemic of the disease in Europe in 1495.

This flu season is turning out to be one of the worse since the 2009 «swine flu» epidemic, CDC officials said last week.

So much changed in a 22 - year span since the conference was last held in the U.S. that its return effectively marks a new phase in the epidemic in terms of treatment, prevention, funding and death rates

Approximately 75 million people in the world have been infected with HIV - 1 since the epidemic started over 30 years ago, mostly through sexual contact and maternal - to - child transmission.

Since 2007 World Heath Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) have promoted adult male circumcision as an additional means to fight HIV transmission in sub-Saharan countries with a high prevalence of the virus, low levels of male circumcision, and generalized heterosexual HIV epidemics.

Since official pronouncements about an outbreak often lag weeks behind its spread, HealthMap's gauge of epidemic news online may prove valuable as a predictive tool.

Since then, widespread epidemics of the most severe forms of diseases have become exceedingly rare in the U.S.

The Indians» diabetes epidemic, everyone agrees, was triggered by an unfavorable change in environment since the mid-20th century, that is, Neel's «progress.»

Other big issues include combating antibiotic resistance in the U.S., stemming the opioid epidemic that has quadrupled overdose deaths in the U.S. since 1999 and remaining vigilant against the perennial onslaught of influenza — as well as emerging threats including tick - borne pathogens.

Ever since, concern has risen that the vaccine may have triggered an epidemic of cancer (Science, 10 May, p. 1012).

Since 2011 the pH1N1 virus infects Finns mainly during flu epidemics (winter / spring seasons).

Since the epidemic began there in December 2013, community resistance to control measures such as tracing contacts of known or suspected cases and safe burials has badly hampered progress, leading to repeated resurgences.

«Since it's impossible to predict which of these agents will cause the next epidemic, it would be ideal to develop a single therapy that could treat or prevent infection caused by any known ebolavirus,» says study co-leader Zachary A. Bornholdt, Ph.D., director of antibody discovery at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. «Our discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing human antibodies is an important step toward that goal,» adds study co-leader, Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

One million cases of AIDS have been reported to the WHO, 19.5 million people have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began

Five million people are newly infected with AIDS during 2003, the greatest number in one year since the epidemic began.

The objective of the PostEboGui1 programme, which has been conducted in Guinea since November 2014, is to monitor, for 2 years, a cohort of over 700 adults and children who survived2 the most serious Ebola epidemic in West Africa, in 2014.

The initial study did not factor in natural birth and death rates, since the hypothetical epidemic took place over 100 days, resulting in natural births and deaths being negligible compared to the impact of the zombie virus over a short time frame.

Since an outbreak in October 2010, epidemic cholera has killed at least 7500 people in Haiti.

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.

A study published in Science [subscription required] in April mapped the virus's spread across the globe and found that every epidemic of the major strain of Influenza A since 2002 could be traced back to eastern and Southeast Asia.

More than 28,500 people have been infected and 11,300 have died since the world's worst recorded Ebola epidemic began in December 2013 - mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.