However, a child
health advocacy group backed up by several other similar organizations and individuals believe that the Messenger Kids app isn't good for children, urging the social network to kill it with fire.
One British mental -
health advocacy group went overboard in the exploration of this concept of «functional mental illness,» however.
Also, the dating app's STD - awareness page helped Tinder fend off serious attacks from the leading sexual
health advocacy group's crusade against unprotected sex and unsafe sexual hook - ups promoted via online dating sites.
The public
health advocacy group found that 92 % of apples contained two or more pesticides, putting them on top of the list (translation: buy organic apples).
September 4, 2015 UChicago Medicine earns prestigious pancreas center designation The University of Chicago Medicine has been named a National Pancreas Foundation Center, one of only 30 facilities in the county to receive the prestigious designation from
the health advocacy group.
To counter this, a «Free the Data» campaign has been launched by non-profit
health advocacy group Genetic Alliance, the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco - based genetic diagnostics company InVitae.
The commission was convened by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit,
health advocacy group based in Washington.
One
health advocacy group said it found high levels of lead in dozens of products purchased around the country, including children's jewelry, backpacks and ponchos.
Since Barrios - Paoli's resignation,
health advocacy groups and homelessness services providers have whispered about Banks as the former deputy mayor's most viable replacement.
«Women's heart awareness has stalled, despite almost three decades of campaigning by numerous women's heart
health advocacy groups,» said C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., FACC, medical director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the study's lead author.
Earlier this year a group of more than a dozen
health advocacy groups and individuals petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban lead acetate from hair dyes.
Although Alwan says that WHO is pleased overall with the outcome document, the recommendation for the World Health Assembly to set targets such as salt reduction and tobacco taxation in 2012 isn't likely to please
health advocacy groups such as NCDA.
Health advocacy groups are scrambling to save a U.S. research agency on the chopping block in Congress.
All have been affected by mental illness and its stigma and have been brought together as part of a national public awareness campaign sponsored by McLean Hospital, in collaboration with Boston Logan International Airport and several mental
health advocacy groups.
Health advocacy groups, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, say a six to 12 month phase - out period should be more than enough time to get trans fats off the shelves.
Much more surprisingly, the fossil - fuel lobby was joined in opposition, or non-endorsement, by Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington Environmental Council, and several other environmental, social justice and
health advocacy groups.
«As Chair of this organisation I have been privileged to work with professional health bodies, leading
health advocacy groups and consumer organisations that have also shared in a vision for primary health care,» he said.
Look for organizations that support children, such as adoption agencies, state / provincial, or local foster / adoptive parent associations, child advocacy organizations, adoptive or foster parent support groups, school or community groups, faith - based organizations, state / provincial or local kinship or grandparent groups, children's mental
health advocacy groups, and associations supporting children with special needs.
Not exact matches
It's the biggest
health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient
advocacy groups, mental
health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.
Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine
advocacy group Trust for America's
Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initia
Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public
health initia
health initiatives.
Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Vir
Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of
health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Vir
health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business
advocacy group based in Vienna, Virginia.
The
group hailed the new mental
health support as a legislative «victory» - one of the few they have seen in four years of ceaseless
advocacy to tighten America's gun laws.
That helped galvanize major opposition to the legislation from
health industry
groups like the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), as well as
advocacy organizations such as the AARP.
The recommendation is part of a comment letter signed by 58 people who are, in the words of the petition, «business persons; members of angel
groups, trade associations and
advocacy groups; partners and associates of venture capital funds; startup founders; individual angel investors; and other persons interested in the
health and vibrancy of America's startup ecosystem.»
For several years, the
advocacy group Common Sense Media has been decrying the public
health threat to children from addiction to social media.
Consumer
advocacy group, CHOICE, has also accused some food companies as «gaming» the system, saying HSR has been used to «
health wash» some food products.
Consumer
advocacy group CHOICE has today launched a campaign calling on Kellogg's and six other food manufacturers to roll out the front of pack
health star rating on their products.
Although the ACCC said the legal action follows a complaint from the Obesity Policy Coalition on toddler foods which make
health claims but are made mostly from fruit juice concentrate, consumer
advocacy group CHOICE also reported on one of the Shreadz products produced by Heinz in May 2016.
The other founders of the
group who have been working very hard to promote and emphasize the importance of
health advocacy made single served pizzas from coconut flour.
«If you want to start selling supplements today, you don't have to register, you don't have to show your product to be effective,» says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's
Health Research
Group, a consumer
advocacy organization.
We are Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Minnesota (PPSM), a
group of mental
health & perinatal practitioners, service organizations, and mother volunteers who provide support,
advocacy, awareness, and training about perinatal mental
health in Minnesota.
This is an interesting paper for anyone who works in maternity care and is especially helpful for
advocacy groups and
health ministries.
Concern is mounting among physicians,
health professionals, environmental
advocacy groups, public safety officials, as well as consumers because of the possible effects of these chemicals on our children.
This has included conducting
advocacy for human milk banking as a cost - effective strategy for improving
health of vulnerable infants, establishing a global technical advisory
group, leading rigorous evaluations to determine impact, and developing innovative human milk banking technologies for resource - limited settings.
The bill, which would require surrogates to undergo medical and psychological screenings and intended parents to have a join consultation with a mental
health professional, reflects input from various community
groups, including LGBT
advocacy organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Family Equality Council, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
But Faso has come under fire from liberal
advocacy groups after backing the passage in the House of Representatives of the American
Health Care Act, the bill that would dismantled the Affordable Care Act.
Speak Out Central New York, a liberal
advocacy group that is pressing Republicans on issues like taxes and
health care, is releasing a six - figure ad purchase criticizing Republican Rep. John Katko over the passage of the tax bill from late last year.
A coalition of New York public
health, environment and healthy schools
advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.
The liberal
health care
advocacy group Save My Care is launching a TV and digital advertising campaign worth more than half a million dollars on Monday that will run this week.
We will work with patient
advocacy groups,
health and social care organisations, inspection agencies, commissioning
groups and other key stakeholders to achieve this.
The Alliance is breaking new ground in that it unites patient
advocacy groups,
health and social care organisations and other key stakeholders to achieve a high standard of hand hygiene, based on the best available evidence.
The staffers include Ben Kalish, the
group's former director of development, who has left to work at the Fortune Society, and Jamin Sewell, the firm's director of lobbying and government relations, who has left to serve as counsel and managing director of policy and
advocacy at the Coalition of Behavioral
Health Agencies.
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: The latest details on the
health care exchange signups (and problems); a new tech
advocacy group launches; Nick Bilton's forthcoming book on Twitter gives the unvarnished version of its founding; and much, much more.
In the crowded primary to succeed ex-Representative Tom Price, the Republican just confirmed as Donald Trump's new
Health and Human Services Secretary, former Democratic Capitol Hill aide Jon Ossoff collected more than $ 500,000 through the liberal
advocacy group Daily Kos.
Here's what happened: In 2010, a former state Department of
Health employee who was involved in setting budgets and, in a previous role, developing regulations, became executive director of an
advocacy group.
At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public
health, environment, and healthy schools
advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Cuomo's plan to bail out upstate nuclear plants could end up raising electricity expenditures for
health systems around the state by at least $ 13.4 million, according to a report by a consumer utility
advocacy group.
AIDS
advocacy groups, including the Gay Men's
Health Crisis, stated that the city's most heavily policed neighborhoods are also those with the highest rates of HIV infection — and therefore the greatest need for the protection condoms provide.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city
health department and leading AIDS
advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public
health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.
Dems fighting for
health care law: A
group of Democrats, including Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, are launching a new
health - care
advocacy campaign today.