Sentences with phrase «health breakthroughs of»

Precisely this connect - the - dots method led to one of the most significant public - health breakthroughs of the past quarter century: In the early 1980s, epidemiologists studied the sexual and social connections among a group of gay men on both U.S. coasts who were developing fatal cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma.

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Refocusing our sights on precision health won't be easy — because it involves achieving something more elusive even than a technological leap or a breakthrough in biological understanding: It demands a wholesale re-thinking: We have to convince and train people to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to their own health.

But the breakthroughs in health - tech — advances that, in theory at least, should make essential care more accessible to and cheaper for both consumers and providers — is only part of the transformation now underway.

«He enables his clients to make radical breakthroughs in their immediate day - to - day health, cognitive functioning and physical performance — all of which increase their prospects for Optimal Health and significant Lifespan Extension.&health, cognitive functioning and physical performance — all of which increase their prospects for Optimal Health and significant Lifespan Extension.&Health and significant Lifespan Extension.»

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

Progressive approaches to the delivery of health services benefit more lives by accelerating the application of those breakthroughs.

TORONTO, August 16, 2016 — Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

«Health technology breakthroughs could play an important role in modernizing our aging healthcare system and creating innovative approaches to procurement can accelerate the adoption of those technologies,» said Zayna Khayat, lead of health systems innovation at MaRS Discovery District and executive sponsor of the prHealth technology breakthroughs could play an important role in modernizing our aging healthcare system and creating innovative approaches to procurement can accelerate the adoption of those technologies,» said Zayna Khayat, lead of health systems innovation at MaRS Discovery District and executive sponsor of the prhealth systems innovation at MaRS Discovery District and executive sponsor of the program.

Technology breakthroughs are now affecting every part of our lives, including self - driving cars, Internet access, and most importantly, our health care.

A collaboration between the University of Cape Town, the University of Oxford, and the World Health Organization, this award goes to organizations in public health that are improving healthcare delivery through new breakthrough soluHealth Organization, this award goes to organizations in public health that are improving healthcare delivery through new breakthrough soluhealth that are improving healthcare delivery through new breakthrough solutions.

In 1996, Alexandria founded Alexandria Venture Investments to actively invest at the cutting edge of novel, breakthrough discoveries in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research tools, medical devices, digital health, and technology.

Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

I was talking with the editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Patrick Cox about health care costs and he made some very interesting observations from new research about health care.

AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, accurate, in - depth coverage of the events shaping our world from conflicts to politics, economics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs in health, science and technology.

There are clear indications that the time is ripe for the churches to make a major breakthrough in the area of mental health.

At the beginning of this book I stated that the time is ripe for the churches to make a major breakthrough in the area of mental health.

Chances for a major breakthrough improve as local, state, and federal levels of government each play increasingly responsible roles in mental health.

A recent research study conducted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with DuPont Nutrition & Health (DuPont), yielded breakthrough results demonstrating that probiotic intervention can alter and modify intestinal microbiota in patients with colon cancer.

The real culprit in weight loss is insulin, not calories says Charles Nguyen, MD, co-author with bariatric internist Tu Song Anh Nguyen and health journalist Mary Ann Marshall of The Thinsulin Program: The Breakthrough Solution To Help You Lose Weight And Stay Thin

Erie County Health Department Director Gale Burstein says part of the recent decreases have been due to breakthroughs in contraception and comprehensive education for teens of all genders.

Located next to the Buffalo General Medical Center, the facility brings Kaleida Health physicians and SUNY Buffalo researchers together to join in the advancements in care and treatment, development of new medical technologies, discovery of breakthroughs and the spin off new biotechnology businesses and jobs.

«Typically, we see a concentration difference of about 1:100 or 1:500, so we think it's a breakthrough to now be able to look at brain health noninvasively,» says Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of Quanterix in Lexington, Massachusetts.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

For instance, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency invented the Internet, researchers at NASA have made dozens of breakthroughs, including the computer microchip and CAT scanner technology, and over 80 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for National Institutes of Health supported research.

«It's not that you require a scientific breakthrough to solve these situations — in developed countries the knowledge and technical tools have been available to women for many, many years,» says Ana Langer, coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Media reports of public health breakthroughs made possible by big data have been largely oversold, according to a new study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

In fact, recent breakthroughs in the creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS) and the engineering of biodegradable scaffolds to create tissues may ultimately be applicable to most health conditions known to humankind.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have made an important breakthrough in their ongoing efforts to develop a diagnostic test that can tell health - care providers whether a patient has a bacterial infection and will benefit from antibiotics.

«These new breathing techniques could represent a breakthrough for athletes seeking help with breathing during training and competition,» said J. Tod Olin, MD, senior author of the study, developer of the novel breathing techniques and Associate Professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO..

«It's a real breakthrough,» says Dean Hamer, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health who studies whether sexual orientation in humans has a hereditary component.

Funders of the work include the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and the UCSF Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, made a series of breakthroughs in primate stem cell research in recent years.

The scientists note that having a clear understanding of what makes humans different from our closest living relatives might lead to new breakthroughs or understandings of human health.

BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

The emergence of private companies at the head of the field is unusual, when medical breakthroughs are typically funded by the National Institutes of Health which pours more than $ 30bn a year into scientists» coffers.

CPB's cadre of renowned and emerging scientists is making important breakthroughs in improving the health of newborns and mothers.

Over the last few years, scientists have been making huge breakthroughs in the field of medicine, but it seems to be on the contrary when one talks about mental or brain health.

Recently, Emoryâ $ ™ s Jeff Koplan, MD, vice president for global health and past CDC director, participated in a Breakthroughs panel sponsored by Big Think, Pfizer and Discover to discuss the latest issues in pandemic and genomic science, fields that have not only made big headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming years.

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It is an honor to know that others recognize our commitment and look to us for leadership and guidance as we work collectively to positively impact the health of our patients and our community, to find new breakthroughs, and to train the next generation of women's health providers.»

As tomorrow's medical breakthroughs will be made by investigators starting in their research careers today, the LRPs represent an important investment by NIH in the future of health discovery and the wellbeing of our nation.

«CRISPR is a revolutionary breakthrough that will advance the frontiers of science and enable us to meet the health challenges of the 21st century in ways we are only beginning to imagine,» says Michael Sipser, dean of MIT's School of Science and the Barton L. Weller Professor of Mathematics.

Fundamental to his efforts is a desire to build research capacity around ethics in developing countries, and to lead a team of experts to conduct breakthrough research to understand the current state of research ethics and health systems development around the world.

These leaders envisioned a unique and dynamic partnership between basic science and applied research, one that would lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of the immune system and improve human health through the development of treatments and cures for immune system disorders.

Wake Forest Innovations Partner, New York College of Health Professions, Announces a Major Breakthrough in Smart Credit Cards

But, in the world of holistic health, people often have breakthroughs when they try alternative methods.

He lectures at many institutions, such as the National Institutes of Health, on the microbiome and his breakthrough research in the probiotic space.

Recent research has provided major breakthroughs in this field, resulting with some strong indicators that the blood type can be a key influence in multiple aspects of the health, from infertility to an increased risk of cancer.