Sentences with phrase «finding effective prevention»

Progress toward finding effective prevention methods and ultimately a safe and effective vaccine could not be made without them.

For now, there's no cure, but the study aims to find effective prevention measures to stop the progression of Alzheimer's.

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The current findings warrant consideration by other nations in their efforts to identify effective interventions for obesity prevention.

The findings are now helping us to trial new nutritional interventions before and during pregnancy to reduce the baby's risk of obesity in childhood and later life, and strengthen the view that effective prevention of childhood obesity has to begin before the baby is born.

This study's finding — based on analysis of data from 1995 to 2014 — that the decline in under - five death was also accompanied by increases in PMI - funded malaria prevention technologies, such as insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying that are known to be effective malaria interventions, provides compelling and important new evidence of the likely effects of PMI funding.

The findings suggest that interventions designed to target deficits in cognitive - affective responding may be effective for prevention and intervention programs for depression following natural disasters.

As law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and public health officials work to develop effective crime - prevention strategies, new research from the University of Iowa finds that individuals who report being victims of crime to police are less likely to become future victims of crime than those who do not report their initial experiences.

Relaxation techniques and thought management are often thought to be the most effective ways to deal with stress, but Epstein's study found that prevention was the most helpful competency, followed by source management.

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.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Stephen R. Lord, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, says: «The finding of a 42 % reduction in falls is in line with the most effective fall preventions that have assessed more traditional group - based and homed - based exercise interventions in older people and well above the average reduction of 17 % for exercise interventions reported in systematic reviews.

«This finding is particularly noteworthy because other violence prevention programs have generally been ineffective or less effective for previously victimized young women,» said Simpson Rowe, who also heads the Couples Research Lab at SMU.

His ultimate goal is to translate research findings from the laboratory into fundamentally novel, rational, and truly effective treatment and prevention strategies.

Alzheimer's has no cure at this time, but determining more effective treatment and prevention methods, as well as finding a cure for the disease, is a high priority for researchers.

The Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas seeks to improve basic and translational research of bone diseases and to convert basic science findings to more effective treatment and prevention options.

The most effective prevention strategy you'll likely ever find is your diet — the foods you do and do not eat every day.

Cyanaocobalamin is the form used in most supplements (it's a little less expensive to manufacture), but methylcobalamin has been found to be the superior, most effective form of vitamin B12, especially for the prevention of neurological diseases.

It was soon found to be effective in the prevention and treatment of angina pectoris, heart failure, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and obesity.

These findings have important implications for prevention as well as treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer and suggest that under conditions of reduced dietary fiber intake and / or decreased butyrate production in colon, pharmacological doses of niacin might be effective to maintain GPR109A signaling and consequently protect colon against inflammation and carcinogenesis.»

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in February 2005 examined this same study group found that when directly compared to first - generation statins, the Portfolio Eating Plan diet, including almonds, is just as effective in lowering LDL, or «bad,» cholesterol below the recommended range for heart disease prevention.

One of the most significant findings to emerge from research on dropouts is that early risk identification is vital to effective prevention.

Although specific actions related to these mandates vary by state, many schools are finding that the most effective approach to bullying prevention is one that is inclusive of school staff, parents, students, and the community.

They found voucher students were 21 percent more likely to graduate high school, and declared the program was «one of the most effective urban dropout prevention programs yet witnessed.»

Schools and school personnel may also consider adding their own material to the Resource Bank of ideas that they have found effective in the prevention and management of challenging The strategies in the Resource Bank supplement advice provided in SESS In - School Seminars.

While these are only a few examples of proven prevention measures, I have found them to be among the more effective approaches in use by many school systems.

Autobrake for front crash prevention has been found to be more effective at preventing or mitigating frontal crashes than warning systems alone.

Although not effective if adult fleas keep finding their way in to the home, if you are just fighting the developing stages then it is very effective if you wish to use more natural flea prevention methods.

Start feeding garlic one month before the start of flea season and you'll find it's an effective deterrent in your flea prevention tool kit.

Pets infected with heartworms can be found in all states, in spite of the fact that very effective heartworm prevention products are available.

Founded during the Heartworm Symposium of 1974, the American Heartworm Society aims to further scientific progress in the study of heartworm disease, inform its members of new developments and encourage and help promote effective procedures for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heartworm disease.

Most of the natural flea remedies you'll find on the Internet are more effective as flea repellents but prevention is a whole different matter than dealing with a full - on flea infestation.

The National Canine Cancer Foundation helps fund universities who are performing cutting edge research toward prevention, finding cures, better treatments, more accurate cost effective diagnostic methods in dealing with cancer and diminishing dogs suffering from cancer.

«The Signal Tag combines the most effective elements of lost pet prevention and recovery tools, and adds new features that underscore PetHub's dedication to helping pet owners find their lost pets as quickly as possible,» said PetHub, Inc. founder and CEO Tom Arnold.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

We focus on prevention - the prevention of unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, cancer and other illnesses - and our medical staff works closely with clients to find affordable, safe and effective options.

This is an interesting finding as many antenatal prevention programs for postnatal depression have not been effective.

For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.

Examining findings from this review and other high - quality studies (some excluded as they focus on targeted prevention), we can conclude that parenting interventions appear to be effective for families with high and low levels of deprivation, with and without maternal depression, those from ethnic minorities and majorities and those with severe and moderate levels of conduct problems.

A more thorough description of the full range of practices designed to strengthen parenting skills and enhance child development can be found elsewhere.35, 62 — 64 Although most primary prevention programs have not been evaluated systematically, those that show promise should be assessed and, if found to be effective, replicated and taken to scale.

Specifically a meta - analysis of studies found that the most effective bullying prevention programs in schools included parent training, improved playground supervision, multiple disciplinary strategies (not Zero Tolerance), school conferences or assemblies that raised awareness of the problem, classroom rules against bullying, classroom management techniques for detecting and dealing with bullying and the work of peers to help combat bullying.

New research from ChildTrends found that bullying prevention programs that use a whole - school approach to foster a safe and caring school climate — by training all adults to model and reinforce positive behavior and anti-bullying messages — were generally found to be effective.

(3) A World Health Organization review of 35 studies found that the programs most effective in changing young people's behavior are those that address abstinence, contraception and STD prevention.

There are programmes that can help support parents, infants and young children during the critical early years such as Nurse Family Partnership49, 50 and Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.51 These programmes, where found to be effective, have been associated with cost - savings.50 — 53 Importantly, such programmes require targeted application in the most deprived areas, and this should be a priority for those involved in violence prevention.

The findings to emerge from the review reflect much of what is already known about effective mental health and suicide prevention policy — that it must be informed by regional and local circumstances.

We are exploring new insights into the genetic roots of autism; finding pediatric bio-behavioral markers of bipolar disorder; creating effective therapies for OCD; devising effective prevention strategies for adolescent sexual risk behaviors and obesity; and much more.

This finding is in line with findings of a meta - analysis on effective ingredients of prevention programs for youth at risk for juvenile delinquency, which also showed that preventive interventions of shorter duration were more effective than preventive interventions of longer duration (De Vries et al. 2015).

Effective strategies for family engagement are essential in the implementation of models directed toward the application of research findings to primary prevention practice.