Sentences with phrase «for epidemic diseases»

The researchers» goals are to identify vulnerable areas for epidemic diseases, particularly neonatal sepsis and through this identification develop ways to prevent and treat these diseases.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

The ongoing American opioid and heroin epidemic is fueling another scourge: hepatitis C infections, according to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report.

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

If that's true, and I think it is, then someone should alert the Centers for Disease Control because there's an insanity epidemic spreading across the business world like wildfire.

We know, for example, that inactivity is leading to an epidemic of obese children and disease complications.

She has the powers to «guard the boundaries of her territory, to protect all those inside these boundaries against disease in humans and cattle, particularly epidemic disease, and to bring rain for those who worship her.»

Venereal disease rates for U.S. servicemen in Europe and Australia reached epidemic proportions that eventually required the military to license and regulate brothels.

The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

Jane Martin: Well, it's very complex and it's very difficult for people to understand and we need to empower people and give them the tools to make these healthier choices when people's diets are very poor, we have an overweight and obesity epidemic and associated chronic disease.

Sugar, sodas and junk foods made of refined grains are directly responsible for an epidemic of obesity and realted diseases: diabetes, hypertension, athereosclerosis and a surge in cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.

By Science Codex Cincinnati, OH, June 6, 2013 — Sports - related concussion has been referred to as an «epidemic» by the Centers for Disease... read more

By News-Medical.net Sports - related concussion has been referred to as an «epidemic» by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that non-medical use of prescription opioids has reached epidemic proportions in the United States in the past five years.

On deer management, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez said that she had supported expanded hunting because of concern over the «epidemic we have now for tick - borne diseases» and because «there are no natural predators for the deer.»

Laws making homosexuality punishable by jail time in Uganda, and lack of property rights for women in India and the Middle East contribute to the AIDS epidemic by leaving people vulnerable to the disease without the legal standing to seek help, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly at the ceremony.

To help end the opioid epidemic, Gillibrand is proposing a bill that would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue guidelines for the safe prescribing of opioids.

Moreover, in 2002, the Government produced an Organic Action Plan as part of its Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food, drawn up in response to the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic.

World MRSA Day will provide us with a much needed opportunity to heighten awareness of how MRSA is transmitted and also acknowledge that there is no cure or vaccine for this preventable, mostly un-reported disease in which the true magnitude of the epidemic is still unknown.

Research conducted for Marie Stopes International by market research company NOP World shows that 20 years into the HIV / AIDS epidemic, a significant minority of British people still display prejudicial and ignorant attitudes towards the disease.

«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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes sleep deprivation as a «public health epidemic» linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer.

Since 2004, Jedryczka's System for Forecasting Disease Epidemics (SPEC) has grown to be the largest rapeseed pathogen - monitoring network in the world.

In a 2015 paper in the journal PNAS, Boris Schmid of the University of Oslo proposed a climate - based explanation for the cyclical epidemics that characterized the disease's presence in Europe.

These record - hot temperatures could increase risk of epidemics by creating more breeding grounds for disease - carrying mosquitoes and ticks.

Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Modern living could be responsible for an «almost epidemic» increase in neurological brain disease, according to new research from Bournemouth University.

In 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that public health officials trigger epidemic intervention when two non-familial locally - acquired cases of Zika are reported in an area.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

Most people now accept the need to cull millions of farmyard animals in the face of epidemics like mad cow disease, but it is hard to imagine killing beloved puppies, bunnies, and kittens, even if those pets do turn out to offer a pathway for a dangerous new disease.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

CA - MRSA (Community - acquired MRSA) has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

Pamela Weintraub is a senior editor at DISCOVER and author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic, for which she won the Medical Writers Association Book Award in 2009.

A Chagas disease epidemic is not likely in North America, but kissing bug bites do cause severe allergic reactions for some victims

Use and misuse of opioids — morphine and related drugs, including prescription pain medications — has risen rapidly in recent years, leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare a nationwide «opioid epidemic.»

The software scans Google News and other news aggregators (along with government and international agency Web sites) for disease - related keywords such as flu, outbreak, and epidemic.

The new strains have increased the risks of disease epidemics, in particular for organic farmers who do not have access to pesticides.

Tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions, and infant mortality rates quadrupled, with acute respiratory diseases accounting for 50 percent of the deaths.

With viral epidemics such as AIDS taking a huge toll, insect - borne diseases have been «pretty far back on the burner» in New York, says John Edman, director of the Center for Vector - Borne Disease Research at the University of California, Davis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) at first tried to combat the epidemic by pushing Russia to adopt its proved guidelines for treating the disease — DOTS, for directly observed therapy, short course.

To illustrate how Zika fears were misplaced, and to offer one example for how the public - health community can use data to better understand future epidemics, the study compared other mosquito - borne diseases carried by the same mosquito that carries Zika, such as dengue virus.

But in the past decade, the disease has seen an uptick in cases, leading to a «silent epidemic,» according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevdisease has seen an uptick in cases, leading to a «silent epidemic,» according to the Centers for Disease Control and PrevDisease Control and Prevention.

But our study shows that hydration, rest and shade are probably not enough to stop the global epidemic of kidney disease,» explained Dr. Jaime Butler - Dawson, lead author of the study and researcher at the Center for Health, Work & Environment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the epidemic accounts for some 25,000 deaths per year — or approximately 68 fatalities per day.

«These new findings allow disease early warning systems to provide warnings for upcoming epidemics with much longer lead time than before,» says Prasad Liyanage, doctoral student at Umeå University and Medical Officer for dengue control in Kalutara district at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health.

«This potential mismatch in timing could significantly diminish the usefulness of vaccination for mitigating the epidemic and could place many at risk of serious disease,» predicted the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in a report the White House released on 24 August.

It's not a moment too soon: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that without a massive effort to slow the epidemic, a million people in West Africa could have Ebola by January.

«Continental controls needed to maintain fightback against tree diseases: New research calls for tighter controls to fight tree disease epidemics.»

As the Zika epidemic spreads to the United States, the potential for contracting the disease via blood transfusion has emerged as a serious concern.