Sentences with phrase «expanding access to treatment»

Expanding access to treatment has contributed to a 19 % decline in deaths among people living with HIV between 2004 and 2009 (Harvard School of Public Health, December 1 — 2, 2011).

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Arlene González - Sánchez said, «Expanding access to treatment is our priority in the fight against addiction.

The relocation of the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center will ultimately provide better opportunities for children to recover in a safe, secure, and state - of - the - art facility, as well as expand access to treatment for children in Western New York.»

In 2012, Arkansas and Idaho expanded access to treatment for STIs.

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However, in very rare circumstances, Ionis Pharmaceuticals is able to make an experimental drug that we are developing available for patients outside of a traditional clinical trial under an expanded access protocol, sometimes referred to as a treatment protocol.

The goal of the task force was to find strategies to address the root causes of the epidemic, improve access to life - saving treatment, and expand support to those in recovery.

Cuomo signed a bill into law that will expand treatment options for women with breast cancer and require better access to screenings — an issue that's personal for him, due to his girlfriend Sandra Lee's battle with the disease.

«We are undertaking the most aggressive action in the nation to expand access to breast cancer screenings, because early detection is the best possible treatment,» Cuomo said.

«This multi-faceted legislative package will increase access to treatment, expand prevention strategies, and save lives by helping ensure New Yorkers struggling with addiction have access to the services and resources they need to get well.

As a matter of urgency, we need to train more healthcare professional (doctors, nurses, and pharmacist) in paediatric oncology, expand treatment access to at least three others centres (Tamale, Cape Coast and Volta regions); and equip these facilities with good Labourites to be able to detect both solid and blood cancers.

The drug, which has rapidly spread across the country in recent years, was the subject of a large package of programs and policies outlined on Tuesday, including easing access to treatment, expanding wraparound recovery services and limiting opioid prescriptions for acute pain to seven days, with some exceptions.

The new effort aims to stop the Hepatitis C virus in its tracks by increasing access to medications that can cure Hepatitis C and expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high - risk communities with wrap - around Hepatitis C prevention, screenings and treatment services.

The other half is being earmarked to community organizations that will provide support to primary care physicians, offer expanded and rural access to opioid treatment and needle exchange services, and create a training program to assist victims of human sex trafficking who are controlled through opioid addiction.

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed to get hospitals to build more detox facilities, to encourage physicians to expand access to medication assisted treatments and to encourage medical students to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.

Writing in a linked Comment, Gino Vumbaca from Harm Reduction Australia, said: «Evidence on the effectiveness of compulsory and voluntary drug dependence treatment in the Asian region has been scarce and this study is a much needed addition to the evidence base that is required to inform policy making... The present study provides solid evidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug dependence.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

Dr. Hagan and the team of NYU researchers hope that by providing a better understanding of HCV progression rates among PWID, they can help inform policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

The study, which confirms the benefit of surgical treatment for migraines and expands access to it, is published online ahead of print in the journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

July 27, 2017 — PetCure Oncology Selects Varian Halcyon Treatment System to Expand Access to Cancer Care for Pets

Guests of the Pink Gin Village will have easy access to the resort's gorgeous stretch of white sand beach, a new zero - entry infinity pool, expanded and renovated lobby, which will include the departure lounge, Club Sandals Concierge, gift shop, wedding lounge, SnapShots photography, Island Routes Tours desk, and the resort's Red Lane Spa with nine treatment rooms, as well as a nail and hair salon.

Various options are proposed to tackle the issue: rehabilitation vouchers - these address the point of «phantom» attendance for rehabilitation, but may be complex to administer; all rehabilitation arranged and paid for by defendants - the MoJ notes that this would help speed up access to treatment and increase independence and transparency; no compensation payment towards rehabilitation in low value claims - the claimant would need to fund this and primary legislation would be needed to achieve this as at present there is no intention to restrict recovery of special damages; expand MedCo to include rehabilitation providers; and introducing fixed recoverable damages for rehabilitation treatment - the MoJ notes that this could be difficult and invites comment as to whether this would be achieved via a fixed cost per session or by fixing an upper value limit that can not be exceeded.

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Over the course of 2011, four states took positive steps to expand access to STI prevention and treatment.

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When Stanford Alexander, chairman of Weingarten Realty Investors in Houston, found out that one of his family members was receiving treatment for mental illness, he began to understand the importance of expanding his employees» access to mental health services.