Sentences with phrase «health advocates call»

Large growers say branding is necessary to convince consumers to switch to the legal market, while health advocates call for plain packaging and strict advertising limits.

Two weeks ago, Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood (CCFC) sent Facebook a letter signed by 117 public health advocates calling on the company to pull the plug on this app, citing the ways it will undermine children's healthy development.

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Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

The Ethereum platform, which uses tokens called ethers, could one day transform the internet as well as industries ranging from banking to health care, its advocates believe.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

Health advocates who call on it to deliver on its claim to ensure advertising is «legal, decent, honest and truthful» have little to celebrate.

The State Health Department has spoken with advocates and opponents of letting people who were adopted access their original birth certificates, and will issue a report that may push the state legislature to pass what is called a clean adoption reform bill.

She called on all stakeholders to advocate and work, to ensure that investments make in the health of the people, particularly the younger ones were sustained.

Also at 10 a.m., hundreds of advocates, public health experts, and New Yorkers living with hepatitis C will call on Cuomo and the state Legislature allocate $ 10.8 million in the state budget to tackle the disease, The Well, LOB, State Street, Albany.

Our side — education advocates, community groups, students, health care providers, faith leaders — held fast to the ideal of progressive taxation and called for the millionaires» tax to be extended, but no one was terribly optimistic about our chances.

King said advocates have been having «good conversations» with both the state Health Department and the second floor about supervised injection sites, which he called «one important step» toward ending the opioid epidemic.

HANYS President Dan Sisto assailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget during a CapTon interview last night, taking the governor and his business community allies to task for being unwilling to extend the so - called millionaire's tax while advocating deep spending reductions in health care and education.

Senator David Carlucci on Monday were joined by a coalition of mental health advocates, physicians and patients today to call on Governor Cuomo to reinstate «prescriber prevails» for atypical antipsychotics in the 2013 - 2014 state budget via the 21 - day amendments.

PRESS RELEASE FROM SENATOR CARLUCCI Senator David Carlucci on Monday were joined by a coalition of mental health advocates, physicians and patients today to call on Governor Cuomo to reinstate «prescriber prevails» for atypical antipsychotics in the 2013 - 2014 state budget via the 21 - day amendments.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin will be joined by Hoosick Falls students, parents, teachers, environmental and health advocates to deliver their PFOA results to the state Senate in person and once again call on the Legislature to hold hearings to find out who knew what and when, outside Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Many health care advocates are celebrating the restoration of what's called «prescriber prevails» for Medicaid patients in this year's budget.

Also at 12:30 p.m., environmental advocate Erin Brockovich, the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires» Disease, and the Allergy and Asthma Network will hold a press conference to call on lawmakers and health officials to work towards real, effective solutions to New York's escalating Legionella and Legionnaires» disease crises, LOB, Room 130, 198 State St., Albany.

Still, Environmental Advocates of New York executive director Peter Iwanowicz on Wednesday called on Cuomo to leave politics out of the fracking health study as he gets closer to a decision.

New York Leads the Nation in Cases of Legionnaires» Disease The Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires» Disease Partners with Iconic Public Health and Environmental Advocate Erin Brockovich and Allergy & Asthma Network to Call for Real Solutions to New York's Growing -LSB-...]

The engine room of the so - called Northern Powerhouse gets an extra jolt today as Greater Manchester takes control of its health and social care budgets — though even key advocates were left struggling to explain what difference it will make.

The First Lady, Lordina Mahama has called on stakeholders to advocate and work, to ensure that investments made in the health of the people, particularly the younger ones are sustained.

Katherine Nadeau is with Environmental Advocates, a group that has been calling for an independent health analysis before fracking could go forward in New York.

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Some experts and advocates, however, have called on the Trump administration to go further, raising the idea of federal health officials negotiating a lower price for naloxone or even sidestepping patents.

Such moves would delight the research community, which for years has joined with a wide range of groups — including military and public health advocates — in calling for Congress to break the caps.

While opponents of the measure have questioned links between carbon dioxide levels and emergency - room visits, evidence is piling on and health advocates are calling for action (ClimateWire, June 3).

And they call on doctors «to advocate for social and welfare policies that are informed by the evidence available and evaluated for their health effects, so that they protect people during crisis rather than creating further health problems.»

So, in addition to my full - time job, I am also a trained advocate for women's heart health through an organization called WomenHeart.

A bigger threat to health is the sugar - and starch - heavy Western diet as a whole, says Lund, who studies heart disease and diabetes and advocates a version of the so - called Paleolithic diet, which emphasizes lean meats, fruits, and vegetables.

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Last year, children's advocate Baroness Floella Benjamin, co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, made an urgent call to government to put play at the heart of policy on child health and well - being.

Connecticut's hospitals, elected officials, advocates and the media would all be highlighting the problem and calling upon the new commissioner of public health to recuse himself from decisions that directly impact Hartford Hospital.

Facebook's new app for kids, called Messenger Kids, has received an avalanche of criticism from parents and child health advocates.

Calling upon evidence - based data, the Feline Fix by Five initiative advocates that cats be spayed or neutered by the age of 5 months or less to reduce the risk of unwanted litters and maximize health and welfare benefits.

Even conscious rappers are in on the public health effort, from Boogie Down Productions» denunciation of factory farming in Beef to A Tribe Called Quest's call to cholesterol awareness in Ham n Eggs (both from 1990) to Dead Prez's song Be Healthy (2000) advocating a vegan diet.

That's why a broad and diverse coalition of environmentalists, public health officials, business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, academics, low - income advocates, and social justice advocates has come together to call on Maryland's leaders to significantly expand the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy.

To implement these 12 solutions, we call on health professionals to: engage, educate and advocate for climate mitigation and undertake preventive public health actions vis - a ̀ - vis air pollution and climate change; inform the public of the high health risks of air pollution and climate change.

«This is something that is important for all of us as parents, as grandparents, and as citizens,» Obama told health professionals and public health advocates on the call.

Among the ironies here was the impetus such political activity imparted to blocking the production of so - called «golden rice,» a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that public health advocates hailed for the contribution it could make to combating afflictions (including preventable blindness) in malnourished children in the developing world.

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives, this groundbreaking alliance is called Project TENDR (Targeting Environmental Neuro - Developmental Risks) and includes 48 of the country's top scientists, health professionals and health advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical pHealth Perspectives, this groundbreaking alliance is called Project TENDR (Targeting Environmental Neuro - Developmental Risks) and includes 48 of the country's top scientists, health professionals and health advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical phealth professionals and health advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical phealth advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical phealth, and federal and state chemical policy.

PACT's custom collection, called «Beyond Coal,» is inspired by the Sierra Club's work «to educate about coal's dangers to environmental and public health and advocate for the use of cleaner fuel sources to move America beyond dirty coal,» according to a spokesperson for PACT.

Child health advocates have called for Facebook to shut down Messenger Kids.

Running as an alternative to what he has called «a good old boy network» and «business as usual,» Gadek has received Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona's endorsement for his commitment to reproductive freedom and access to reproductive health care.

Twomey called on the rural health sector to advocate for the Queensland Premier to address the governance structures of state departments to ensure that they enable empowerment for people in the regions.

Oberklaid said that «most paediatric admissions represent a failure of the healthcare system», and called on the health sector to become advocates for prevention.

PPFA President Cecile Richards issued the following statement on the news of the resignation — and the interim appointment of Evelyn Kappeler to oversee Title X. «On behalf of the more than 17 million women who need access to publicly funded family planning services, Planned Parenthood calls on the Bush administration to do the right thing and appoint a truly qualified women's health advocate and expert to this critical post.

NEW YORK CITY — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, called on the Bush administration to replace HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, who resigned Monday, with a true advocate for the health of teens, women and families.

NEW YORK — In response to news reports today that the FOX and CBS television networks have refused to broadcast condom advertisements, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, is calling on FOX, CBS and the other major networks to use their influence to promote responsible decision making, like using condoms to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

NEW YORK CITY — Following today's editorial in the New York Times, «Costly Contraceptives,» Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, called on Congress to address the growing problem of access to affordable birth control in America.