Sentences with phrase «first global diseases»

Syphilis was one of the first global diseases, and understanding where it came from and how it spread may help us combat diseases today

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It is almost a decade since Gates first dared to revive what in global health circles is known as the «e-word» in relation to this ancient disease.

With today's research demonstrating the higher risks of mortality, allergy, illness, and later non-communicable diseases associated with the use of breast milk substitutes, [4] it is unacceptable that only 1 % of British babies today are exclusively breastfed for the first six months as per global recommendations.

After the first human case of SARS was recorded in 2002 in Guangdong Province in southern China, a global epidemic of the disease sickened more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in 2003.

That's according to a new report on the top global health achievements in the first decade of this century, put out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With global increase in obesity and diet - related metabolic diseases, interest has intensified in ancestral or «Palaeolithic» diets, not least because — to a first order of approximation — human physiology should be optimized for the nutritional profiles we have experienced during our evolution.

«This is the first time he's signaled that he's going to champion global HIV in this way,» says Jennifer Cohn, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a policy adviser in Nairobi for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; also known as Doctors Without Borders).

Despite being classified as rare disease, public awareness is very high, fueled by celebrity patients like Stephen Hawking and culminating in last years» Ice Bucket Challenge, the first charity campaign with global impact.

The results were a first — a region - by - region calculation of the global burden of disease.

To figure out not only how many people die from specific diseases but also how much each disease affects people's quality of life, researchers in 1992 first estimated what's called the global burden of disease.

The intense global focus on the disease also was instrumental in accelerating the first meeting of the World Health assembly in 1947 in response to a cholera outbreak in Egypt.

Murray and Lopez brought the idea to the World Bank and then the World Health Organization, which together published the first preliminary «Global Burden of Disease» in 1993.

The first task before him was building the skilled team necessary to complete a new, far more detailed and nuanced version of the «Global Burden of Disease» study.

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Worldwide, the prevalence of stroke stood at 33 million, with 16.9 million people suffering their first stroke, and is the second - leading cause of global death behind heart disease.

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

First, Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington DC and his colleagues calculate that if rich countries and China cap their use of antibiotics in farming at the global average, overall use in that sector should be 60 per cent lower in 2030.

While these people are not contributing very much to global environmental degradation, so far, they are the going to be the first to feel the impacts — whether from famine, disease or dislocation.

The idea for a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise was first raised in 2003 by leading representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNAIDS, and IAVI.

Recognized as the first global proteomic analyses of time course responses of mouse macrophages to S. enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) infection, the study may lead to new strategies for diagnosing, treating, and vaccinating against infectious disease.

These are classified in three groups, one Issues involving the global community are global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migglobal community are global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migglobal warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migglobal commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migGlobal infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migglobal regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migglobal financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migration

Fifteen years after this devastating disease was first diagnosed and likely carriers identifed, there has yet to be a public education campaign largely due to the competing claims that global warming was the agent of death.

Its goal was to get coverage for skeptical scientists, and such coverage was effective, as Gelbspan first learned in 1995, after co-writing an article with an IPCC physician on how global warming would affect the spread of disease.