Sentences with phrase «epidemic started»

Learn about how the opioid epidemic started, how you can keep your community safe, and how to help a loved one who is struggling.

This graph shows that the obesity epidemic started full - force at the same time the low - fat advice was peaking.

Our obesity epidemic started with the USDA's food pyramid, which encouraged replacing fat with carbs.

1977 is also when the obesity epidemic started.

This graph shows how the obesity epidemic started at almost the exact same time the low - fat guidelines came out (2):

Bedford had been a postdoc in Rambaut's lab before coming to the Hutch in 2013, six months before the Ebola epidemic started.

This influenza epidemic started in Hong Kong in mid-April.

«In the United States, the epidemic started on a different foot, so we never paid attention to the role of truckers.

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.

The new cases in Liberia was announced just days after Guinea, where the epidemic started, said it had no more Ebola cases.

Charts showing both the rising rate of obesity and the growing quantity of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the food stream demonstrate a startling fact: The obesity epidemic started at the same time as the introduction as HFCS into the U.S. around 1975, at about the same time as sugar tariffs and quotas made imported sugar very expensive.

Many experts say the prescription painkiller epidemic started when physicians began over-prescribing powerful opioid medications, a well - meaning attempt to more aggressively treat patients» pain.

Bacteriocinogeny in Neisseria meningitidis isolates associated with the epidemic starting in North Norway in the mid-1970's

Clearly, the diabetes and obesity epidemics started in 1977.

Not exact matches

Doctors are starting to warn of an «epidemic» of loneliness in society, and the workplace is no exception:

After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of Arts in 2011, O'Brien started working in the film industry and was «appalled» by the waste epidemic on set.

Before China started buying lamb flaps, they were mostly sold to South Pacific islands for around $ 1 per kilogram, and were blamed for contributing to an obesity epidemic.

The global AIDS industry got off to the wrong start twenty years ago by assuming this was the only type of epidemic we would face.

Thankfully, it is not only the government realizing the extent of the porn epidemic but churches are starting to take action by providing small group studies and recovery programs, like the Conquer Series, that are designed to break the cycle of pornography and provide sexual discipleship.

I believe this is a great start, i work in this city and have had friends lose their lives due to the rising drug, violent crime epidemic.

Said A-IDS epidemic in the g - ay male community at the start of the AI - DS crises will always remain unfortunately a stigma on the g - ay community.

The prescription drug epidemic too off when the ads started on TV.

And when I started looking into health statistics, I realized that there is a major health epidemic among Black women in this country that is hidden under the veneer of strength.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

Just look at the diabetes epidemic for a start.

September Asthma Epidemic Just after school starts, September has the highest number of asthma hospitalizations.

There are a lot of theories that one contributor to our country's epidemic of obesity is how we start them on nutritionless starchy carbohydrates (AKA baby cereal), instead of nutrient - dense veggies and fruits.

This widespread epidemic is starting to get more recognized and now more women who are addicted to nicotine are using smokeless tobacco, which hasn't had nearly enough research done.

What started as a problem for a small percentage of babies seems now to be an epidemic.

The film, which was previewed last week in a theater in the Capitol Visitor's Center, starts out by blaming the food industry for the obesity epidemic.

I don't understand directors who see the childhood obesity epidemic day in and day out and don't start making changes and marketing to their kids,» he says.

There were also questions about whether the money would supplement existing anti-addiction programs or start new efforts to fight the opioid abuse epidemic sweeping New York and other states.

Through education and providing services to addicts we can start to reverse this dangerous epidemic.

Originally, the national immunization campaign was scheduled for January 28 to February 1 in all states in southern Nigeria, we had to start ours at Sabo community alone to prevent possible epidemic.»

Characterizing campus sexual assault as «an epidemic,» Pelosi said those initiatives are a good start, but much more needs to be done.

He continued: «Ensuring that every child has access to high - quality public education, addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic, creating stable new jobs and protecting our environment all starts within our state government.»

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.

That is why we are using the legal system to bring this deadly epidemic back to the corporations that started it — the pharmaceutical companies,» he said.

The epidemic of corruption on his watch has robbed him of moral authority, old punching bags like Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are starting to punch back, and legislators, including fellow Democrats, are no longer folding like cheap suits.

«When the tobacco companies started to be held accountable for their contribution to the cancer epidemic and the heart disease epidemic and they had to start contributing to the solution... then things started to change,» Campbell said.

The Onondaga County Sheriff's Department is starting up a couple of new programs in response to the opioid abuse epidemic in Central New York.

The opioid epidemic is also starting to affect some of the agencies that deal with people addicted to heroin.

Both men spoke of the local heroin epidemic that can often start with prescription drug abuse.

In China, however, the AIDS epidemic was just getting started.

Meanwhile, scientists launched numerous studies to determine whether thimerosal had actually caused an autism epidemic, while some parents and their lawyers started pointing fingers and developing legal cases.

Disagreements over who, or what, was responsible for the epidemic continue, and health agencies predict the situation will get much worse before cases start falling.

The cholera epidemic in Haiti is just getting started.

Soon they started issuing regular reports about the city's epidemic.

While the new models — some of which are being developed in the Stadler group — are more complex and require a lot more computation, they provide more accurate results even at the start of an epidemic, when very little genetic data is available.

ETH researchers have now shown that the high estimated mutation rates at the start of the epidemic were due to the limited number of virus samples at the time in combination with the computer models used, which calculate the estimates using genetic data from virus samples and from underlying assumptions.