Sentences with phrase «health advocates said»

Any health - insurance - reform bill adopted by the Congress must include provisions that specifically target the health - care needs of children and adolescents, child - health advocates said last week.

Health advocates said the ride is also a way to remind Bronx residents about the benefits of riding a bike.

Maternal health advocates say listening to such voices is a critical step in addressing how disparities in race, income and education affect outcomes.

While city schools have improved cafeteria food by restricting trans fats and fried foods and requiring healthier vending machine choices, child health advocates say there is still much to do.

Many environmental public health advocates say the findings play a critical first step in prioritizing the thousands of chemicals currently in the market today, many of which have little safety data publicly available.

Sexual health advocates say the draft national curriculum is a» dreadful attempt» at teaching sexual health in high schools.

Sidestepping Senior Mobility Issues with Preventive MedicineSidestepping Senior Mobility Issues with Preventive Medicinecover storiesPosted: June 24, 2008By Jessica TremayneAlthough senior care has vastly improved over the past 10 years, senior - health advocates say practices need to focus on education and prevention in all facets of their senior care regimen.

Chicago has one of the highest asthma rates in the country, and health advocates say Fisk and its sister plant, the 86 - year - old Crawford station a few miles away, only make things worse by belching up soot.

Now, health advocates say physicians like Szema need to study up on the environment and bring conversations about the fingerprints of climate change right down to the doctor - patient level.

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Haviland, a passionate advocate for social justice and global women's and children's health issues, says that «every business person can take on a social mission.

«Seniors are waiting too long for services and aren't getting the support they need from the Christy Clark government,» said New Democrat health spokesperson Judy Darcy, responding to the release of a report from B.C.'s seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie.

Privacy advocates say that means trouble for Canada's ability to shield sensitive information such as health or financial data from the prying eyes of foreign agencies by storing it in computer servers on Canadian soil.

«Unlike computers, humans function best with periods of activity interspersed with regular breaks,» says health consultant and napping advocate Thea O'Connor.

The study of more than 12,000 Americans provides more ammunition to health advocates who say that slashing salt intake will save lives.

The chief executive of the Public Health Association, Michael Moore, said it was clear that some influence had been «brought to bear» and consumer and health advocates would be pushing to have the website reinsHealth Association, Michael Moore, said it was clear that some influence had been «brought to bear» and consumer and health advocates would be pushing to have the website reinshealth advocates would be pushing to have the website reinstated.

That decision has sparked a backlash from health advocates, who say current labelling does not do enough to highlight foods which should be avoided, while grocery manufacturers argue traffic - light labels are simplistic and too blunt an instrument in the fight against obesity.

«We can advocate for research and policy that place our children's health at the top,» Lambrinidou says.

This move has been decried by many health advocates, including the American Heart Association, which said in a press release, «Children who eat high levels of sodium are about 35 percent more likely to have elevated blood pressure, which can ultimately lead to heart disease or stroke.

Break the silence, says youth athlete Health and Safety advocate Brooke de Lench, founding Executive Director of MomsTeam Institute.

«Sponsorship of this kind thus damages the college's reputation as an independent advocate for child health; we can afford not to have the money, we can not afford the loss of reputation,» they said.

You go on to say, «Pediatricians play a critical role in their practices and communities as advocates of breastfeeding and thus should be knowledgeable about the health risks of not breastfeeding, the economic benefits to society of breastfeeding, and the techniques for managing and supporting the breastfeeding dyad.»

Marsden Wagner, a Washington, D.C. - based doctor who is retired from the World Health Organization and is an outspoken advocate for midwives, said the most important job for a midwife is to determine when the normal birth becomes abnormal.

Medill Reports Chicago, April 30, 2009 Cloth diapers benefit baby health and the environment, advocates say by Elizabeth Diffin» They come in a rainbow of colors and patterns, with cutesy names — FuzziBunz, Happy Heinys and Swaddlebees.

Still, parents and health care professionals who advocate the practice say children can benefit from this type of sleeping arrangement.

«Some chemicals naturally present in strawberries, pineapples or some insecticides used on fruit also bother some people,» said Michael B. Foggs, chief of allergy, asthma and immunology for Advocate Medical Group of Advocate Health Care.

We won't stop until the agency that protects us all is spared the recklessness of those that put polluter - friendly policies ahead of public health,» said Environmental Advocates of New York Executive Director Peter Iwanowicz.

Immigrant advocates say some 100,000 people lost their licenses as a result, and were thrust back into the shadows, making everything from getting to work to getting access to health care more difficult.

Gillibrand did say that Weiner «has always been a great advocate for civil rights, for health care for all, a lot of liberal issues that are important.»

As an advocate for 2.6 million Brooklynites, Adams says he is working to improve entrenched issues like poor health that hold his constituents back.

Advocates for people with disabilities say they're worried about them losing health coverage and other necessities as power shifts in...

Rally organizers said that more than 15,000 signatures have been collected from hospital employees, community members and health advocates across the state in support of this bill.

Homeless advocates want the roadmap to touch on the issue, and McCray has said that mental health problems are exacerbated when people are stressed about losing their home, but the city's power to solve the problem is limited by how much it is willing to spend, and a distant relationship with the Cuomo administration.

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.

1199 SEIU, the powerful health care workers» union, has decided to endorse Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, sources say.

He is a dedicated advocate for universal health care, a fair tax code and good - paying jobs for working families,» Bill Lipton, state director of the New York Working Families Party, said in a statement.

«I want to give credit to the important alliance between the advocates and the people who work in government,» Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city's health commissioner, said during the March 15 official reopening of the clinic, which is located at 303 Ninth Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets.

«This ruling gives us more time to work with the Department of Health, elected officials and community advocates to develop alternative solutions that will keep LICH's vital services and good jobs in the community,» said George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU in a press release, who sought the restraining order along with the New York State Nurses Association, Concerned Physicians of LICH and others.

«This is the state where I have been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ equality and for women's health and women's rights, including a woman's right to choose, and in the last 17 years, I have been traveling across this state fighting for better public schools for my kids but also for all of New York's kids,» Nixon said.

Hannon said he met with state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker who the senator said has been a strong advocate of organ donations.

«Citizen Action of New York has been instrumental in fighting against the corrupting influence of big money in our democracy and advocating for quality education and health care for all,» Nixon said.

Advocates of the program say the health department has taken helpful steps, such as allowing nurse practitioners to certify patients to take the drug.

In the past week, health - care advocates brought in to advise Mr. Cuomo on Medicaid said he blind - sided them with back - room deals with the hospital industry and union workers.

You can not come to Family Planning Advocates» day of action and say that no longer is it acceptable for Democrats to pound their chests and proclaim they are pro choice while undermining reproductive health care,» said Brooks.

Pro-choice advocates promoting the women's reproductive health act say they are counting on Governor Andrew Cuomo to help the bill become law this year.

«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»

«I'm thrilled to see the proposed investment in upgrading and expanding our health labs and will continue to advocate that we keep these jobs in Albany,» Fahy said in a tweet.

Liebman says mental health advocates were not given input into the bill.

Howard said the decision was largely influenced by the recommendations of the Scientific / Technical Advisory Committee (S.T.A.C.), a group of health experts and Downtown advocates that advised that the treatment of the cancers be federally funded.

He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.

Saima Anjam, environmental health director at Environmental Advocates of New York, says activists are hoping for fast - track passage of Local Law L. «Unfortunately we haven't seen any action on the statewide level.