Sentences with phrase «evidence about the benefits»

Research salad bar programs and gather evidence about the benefits.

No strong evidence about the benefits and safety of planned home birth compared to planned hospital birth for low - risk pregnant women.

Despite compelling evidence about the benefits of breastfeeding little is known about the breastfeeding experiences of mothers of infants with Down's syndrome.

Evidence about the benefits of breast - feeding for both babies and mothers continues to mount.

The ideal process combines the best available evidence about the benefits and harms of an intervention with the patient's values and preferences, as part of a discussion with their general practitioner (GP) or health professional.

While our body needs calcium to function properly, evidence about benefits (and harms) of taking supplements is inconclusive.

Communities take great pride in championship football teams and show - piece libraries, media centers, and performing - arts centers, and they are loathe to give them up, particularly when the hard evidence about the benefits of small schools is still years away.

Real world learning There is a wealth of evidence about the benefits of learning outside the classroom in helping pupils develop resilience, self ‑ confidence, communication skills, creativity and the skills of inquiry and problem solving.

«With evidence about the benefits for children and young people of teaching [sex and relationships education] stacked up high and a growing list of politicians calling for the subject to be mandatory, there is no excuse for government to continue leaving [sex and relationships education] to chance.»

There is some anecdotal evidence about the benefits of reducing problematic behaviour of disruptive pupils on the attainment of their classmates, but this is an understudied dimension in evaluations of behaviour programmes.

Not exact matches

Senior fellow Monica de Bolle and research fellow Martin Chorzempa write that the Venezuelan government's proposal «combines serious misunderstandings with wishful thinking about the benefits of blockchain technology, along with evidence that the government is either trying to fool its populace or that it does not understand the basics of cryptocurrencies, or both.»

The sum the cooking magnate had cashed in was trifling — around $ 50,000 worth of stocks — but she was prosecuted in the end because there was clear evidence showing she had benefited from insider information and later lied about it.

In one case, a borrower's testimony about her mental impairment, including evidence that she received Social Security benefits, was enough to convince the court of undue hardship.

The right of Pulaya Christians «to assemble for learning, or to take Sabbath for a rest» were shown as evidence of such privileges.47 Similarly, George Mathan, the pioneer of the anti-slavery movement, preached to the Pulayas about their wretched condition and of the benefits they would derive, temporally as well as spiritually, by embracing Christianity.48 Such messages linking Christianity to certain privileges that the Pulayas might enjoy definitely caught their imagination.

There isn't, David argues, any evidence for the governor's claims about the benefits of gambling, and the governor himself presents none, and a great deal of evidence against it.

There is no conclusive evidence that GMOs benefit or hinder human health or the environment, but we feel that consumers have the right - to - know about the use of GMOs in the foods that they select for their families.

Check out this report from the National Institutes of Health for more info about common ingredients touted for their weight loss benefits (spoiler alert: most don't have a strong body of evidence to support their supposed efficacy).

Evidence - based research has shown that breastfeeding is the option with greatest health benefits for both mom and baby but with so much else to think about, moms often wait until baby arrives to ask for breastfeeding tips and techniques.

The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists emphasized the results of the Wax study in its official statement on homebirth, siting that «Women inquiring about planned home birth should be informed of its risks and benefits based on recent evidence.

As for number 3, it is ethically suspect to exaggerate the benefits of breastfeeding, pretend that that breastfeeding is a matter of life and death in the US, mislead women on the state of the scientific evidence and above all, to shame and scare women about formula feeding.

The Coroner is correct that women can benefit from greater and more accurate information about the risks of childbirth and homebirth, but even more women will benefit by overhauling midwifery education to reflect scientific evidence, as opposed to the midwifery fantasies that are currently killing women and babies.

Yet sleep «experts» and some sleep researchers are so focused on the need for an infant to sleep through the night, they ignore the evidence that talks about the benefits of waking.

There is some evidence that counselling women who intend to formula feed about the benefits of expressing milk for very low birthweight babies increases the incidence of lactation initiation and breast milk feeding without increasing maternal stress and anxiety (Sisk 2006).

Workshops cover evidence - based information about the benefits of doula support, the history of birth, the significance of doula support to families, practical hands - on techniques, as well as the steps to begin a career as a birth doula.

Workshops cover evidence - based information about the benefits of doula support, the tender and sensitive time and space when a new families brings home a new baby, the significance of doula support to a family, practical hands - on techniques, as well as the steps to begin a career as a postpartum doula.

The author, Rooja Sooben from the Centre for Learning Disability Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, says despite compelling evidence about the health benefits of breastfeeding, little is known about the experiences of mothers of infants with Down's syndrome.

Nestlé declined to respond directly to The BMJ's questions about the thoroughness of its monitoring of the Carnation study or whether it had been under pressure in 1988 to provide evidence to the US regulator of the benefits of its infant formula, as CBC had claimed.

I made my decisions based on sound, scientific evidence about the risks vs. the benefits.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

A significant proportion of people view even the cap on benefits as evidence that the government does not care about the vulnerable, and the epithet «the nasty party» still has some resonance.

BASC Northern Ireland Director Tommy Mayne said: «BASC welcomes the opportunity to submit evidence to the Environment Committee and while we welcome some aspects of the Marine Bill which will benefit marine life and biodiversity, we are greatly concerned about certain clauses within the draft Bill that pose a potential threat to wildfowling and other rural activities.

The Trust said in its evidence to the committee: «Where there are concerns about the lower benefit cap, it does not initially act as an incentive to find work.»

While there's no guarantee body cameras would have provided conclusive evidence about the Feb. 8 death of Wardel Davis, who was unarmed, or Sunday's shooting death of Jose Hernandez - Rossy, whom Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn indicated Wednesday may have been unarmed, such cases are the kinds that could benefit from video evidence, local law enforcement and politicians say.

They have said in recent weeks that the plan to crack down on benefit tourism showed No 10 was not serious about introducing major reforms because there is relatively little evidence of benefit abuse by EU citizens.

• Counsel patients about routes of administration and potential benefits and risks, based on scientific evidence and individual symptoms, conditions and comorbidities

Formulation of recommendations was based on the quality of the evidence and judgment (incorporating values and preferences) about the balance of benefits and harms.

«The public health message about the link between cannabis and psychosis has been a difficult one to communicate, but the evidence still points to the benefits of regulations that seek to advise on the greatest potential health risks, which currently arise due to tobacco use.»

The findings, published in Frontiers in Plant Science, provide new evidence about the potential benefit of «biostacking» — putting multiple microbes together to protect plants from stress.

Although the evidence of benefit from vitamin E against community - acquired pneumonia in elderly males is strong in this analysis, the overall findings about vitamin E have been complex.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

«Due to increasing concerns about the risks of long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain and limited evidence as to their benefit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in 2016,» said Merlin, who completed this research while at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

For example, Thaler and Sunstein's claims about the benefits of opt - out schemes are belied by little evidence it increases donations.

«Lawmakers who are concerned about developing a highly skilled workforce in their state should balance this evidence against any perceived benefit of tuition guarantees,» Delaney said.

And in July, Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella of the University of Bergen in Norway published a small study bolstering evidence that the cancer drug rituximab can treat ME / CFS, in which about two - thirds of patients benefited notably.

«Together, these studies provide accumulating evidence about the possible short - and long - term benefits of ADHD medications,» D'Onofrio said.

Although the balance of the evidence indicates that bariatric surgery is safe and effective for the typical patient with severe obesity, Dr. Arterburn said, individual patients and their doctors need to have meaningful shared decision making conversations about the long - term benefits, risks, and uncertainties of bariatric surgery so they can each choose the best treatments for them.

In this systematic review, we found insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about potential benefits and harms of cannabis use in patients with PTSD.

Lead author Dr Amy Cheah says there is a growing body of evidence about the antioxidant health benefits of grape seed tannins or polyphenols as anti-inflammatory agents and, more recently, for their anti-cancer properties.

Since this study, evidence has emerged about other potential health benefits of omega - 3, including relief of arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, and relieving the symptoms of some mental health conditions such as depression and schizophrenia.

In a new review of the evidence on statins» effectiveness, researchers led by Rory Collins, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, report in the Lancet that concerns about the side effects of statins may be overblown, and that appreciation of the drugs» benefits are under recognized.