Sentences with phrase «health by poisoning»

In essence, a person with active gum disease has an enemy «inside the gates» slowly but surely eroding his or her health by poisoning the system with bacteria.

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Nine of the county's zip codes, predominately in the City of Buffalo: 14201, 14207, 14208, 14209, 14210, 14211, 14212, 14213, and 14215, have been designated by the New York State Department of Health as «Communities of Concern» where children are at exceptionally high risk for lead poisoning.

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

Buffalo's lead poisoning problem — already recognized as serious — is much worse than previously reported by state and local health officials.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today announced that the Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program has received a $ 30,000 increase in funding provided by the New York State Department of Health's Lead Primary Prevention grant and will use that money to increase inspections in the areas of Utica at the highest risk of lead poisoning.

He added: «This grant reflects just such a collaboration, involving countless hours of work, the commitment of joint resources and the combined talents of dedicated professionals motivated by their passion for protecting the health of our children and sparing them the debilitating effects of lead poisoning.»

Introduced on May 10 by City Councilmember Mark Levine, the Chair of the Council's Health Committee, the bill is part of a legislative package designed to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by strengthening the city's lead laws.

Countdown Begins on Remodeling, Repairing and Paint Rules «New EPA Regs Aimed at Decreasing Lead Poisoning» In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — October is Lead Poisoning Prevention Month, and today Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Congressman Brian Higgins (NY - 26), Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, community lead - abatement partners, and concerned citizens to call attention both to a $ 3 million federal grant awarded to Erie County to identify & eliminate lead hazards in 180 local homes and to the «Wipe Out Lead» educational billboard campaign, which is now underway and features a number that concerned citizens can text to access lead resources.

The state Department of Health has advised local hospitals, emergency departments and urgent care centers to keep an eye out for patients who may have ingested the poison, according to a recent announcement by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The keys are to stop children from coming into contact with lead and to treat children who have been poisoned by lead» said Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.

Erie County Health Commissioner Gale R. Burstein said she hoped the money would further reduce lead poisoning levels in Erie County children by 60 to 70 percent.

And public health experts believe that as many as 500 million poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America are being slowly poisoned by long - term cumulative exposure to aflatoxins, which can stunt a child's growth, suppress the immune system and lead to liver damage or cancer.

«To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of an outbreak of childhood lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining,» the team, directed by lead experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

A research team led by Jeanne Mager Stellman of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University reported in April that the herbicides used to defoliate battle zones contained two to four times the previously reported levels of dioxin, a poison linked to a high incidence of prostate cancer, diabetes, birth defects, and other ailments among American veterans, the Vietnamese, and their descendants.

The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.

According to Richard Goldstein, a kidney specialist at Cornell University's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, all of the animals affected by the recall showed similar signs of the poisoning.

She could rely on the slash, poison and burn method offered by the medical profession and become stuck in the «cancer patient» category for who knows how long, or she could take responsibility for her illness and bring her body to optimum health so that it can heal itself.

If you believe your health has been compromised by PFOA, contact your doctor or call the Poison Control Center.

Today's real cool fact of the day is that holistic medicine is used by about half the world's population and that the WHO, the World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that way.

Coconut oil has even been used successfully by doctors in treating aluminum poisoning.15 Coconut oil is exceptionally helpful for pregnant women, nursing moms, the elderly, those concerned about digestive health, athletes (even weekend warriors), and those of you who just want to enhance your overall health.

The Beautiful Truth: Gerson therapy is a film documenting Charlotte Gerson and the Gerson therapy which was a health therapy created by Dr. Max Gerson, Charlotte's father, who was poisoned to death for spreading a cure.

For the kale and cooked greens, you probably just didn't like them much when you first ate them and you haven't gotten over it — humans react to bitter flavors because they can be poisonous, but greens either aren't poisonous or they're just the right amount of poison for health, so it may be a good idea to teach yourself to like them — either cover them with a flavor that you like and wean yourself off the added flavor (some people teach kids to eat broccoli by adding a lot of cheese sauce), or just eat it 10 times until you get used to it.

By researching naturl health issues, I learned that common symptoms of pesticide poisoning include an inability to think, poor concentration, hyperactivity, poor coordination, weakness, nervousness, breathing problems, muscle pains, and twitching — the symptoms we associate with a number of neurological disorders, including ADHD.

In fact, hospitals keep it on hand as a routine part of poisoning protocols, and it's been used by healers in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for over 10,000 to improve intestinal health.

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The number of 15 - 16 year old girls harming their health by drinking to excess doubled over the past 20 years, with the number of 16 - 17 year old girls intentionally poisoning themselves almost doubling as well.

French bulldogs can have lots of allergies and health problems without being poisoned by crappy foods.

But if you have adopted an older pet or one with known pre-existing health condition, if you are accepted by an insurer, the policy can still help you out for medical emergencies such as food poisoning, broken limbs, or injuries resulting from car accidents.

Brigitte is passionate about holistic health alternatives for dogs, most of which are today suffering foreshortened lifespans in the wake of a lifetime diet of commercial pet food, and further contributed to by unnecessary over-vaccination and chemicals and poisons applied topically and internally.

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Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSHealth Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LShealth and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-...]

This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.

The World Health Organization estimates that at least 3 million people are poisoned by pesticides every year, resulting in 220,000 deaths worldwide annually.

Therefore, a combination of CO-Gas Safety's proposals and Eddie's Bill would, the charity hopes, avoid unintentional deaths and injuries and improve health by preventing low level poisoning.

Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65

Because of the health problems caused by lead poisoning, the Residential Lead - Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act was enacted in 1992.