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.
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.
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.
Sexual
health advocates say the draft national curriculum is a» dreadful attempt» at teaching sexual health in high schools.
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.
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.
Maternal
health advocates say listening to such voices is a critical step in addressing how disparities in race, income and education affect outcomes.
Health advocates said the ride is also a way to remind Bronx residents about the benefits of riding a bike.
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.
Not exact matches
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 reins
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 reins
health 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.