Sentences with phrase «health epidemics including»

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But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

The Whole Child health report brings together a comprehensive picture of the effects to mind, body and spirit of the societal shift toward growing up indoors, including not only epidemic childhood obesity but also precipitously rising rates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood diabetes, and pediatric depression.

Those include a tax on vapor products, a 2 - cent per milligram tax on opioid prescriptions framed as a way to combat the heroine addiction epidemic, and a «windfall profit fee» on health insurance companies.

The Oneida County Health Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of New... ReaHealth Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of New... Reahealth during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of New... ReaHealth for the State of New... Read more

The decline was highlighted by Cuomo last year when he announced plans for his End the Epidemic initiative, which included assisting undiagnosed HIV patients find health care, getting patients on anti-HIV therapy and providing high - risk people with HIV prevention drugs.

State Cites Oneida County Health for H1N1 Response The Oneida County Health Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of NewHealth for H1N1 Response The Oneida County Health Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of NewHealth Department overcame numerous obstacles including an evolving epidemic and the pressure to deliver medications that were sometimes in short supply in its efforts to protect the public health during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of Newhealth during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, according to a letter from Dr. Richard F. Daines, Commissioner of Health for the State of NewHealth for the State of New York.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes sleep deprivation as a «public health epidemic» linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

Murray's office says she and Azar discussed issues she plans to bring up in the hearing, including the health care system, drug pricing and the opioid epidemic.

The findings, published online and scheduled for an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age women.

Russia's post-communism prisons incubated the TB epidemic at the very time that the nation's health care system, including its network of specialized hospitals and clinics for treating TB, underwent its own collapse.

National Public Radio outlines some of the challenges the country still faces, including caring for survivors, keeping vigilant for reintroductions from Guinea or Sierra Leone, and training replacements for the doctors and health care workers who died in the epidemic.

, including caring for survivors, keeping vigilant for reintroductions from Guinea or Sierra Leone, and training replacements for the doctors and health care workers who died in the epidemic.

But now that we know that vitamin D won't cure cancer, we tend to avoid thinking about it at all, and that's a big mistake because vitamin D deficiency, which is currently at epidemic proportions in the United States, is still a major contributor to a plethora of serious health issues, including low testosterone.

There is a growing demand for preventative care solutions — including advanced diagnostic services — by physicians, hospitals, clinics, insurers, policymakers and employers who are seeking to address the epidemic of costly life - threatening and chronic conditions; True Health Diagnostics anticipates rapid growth and the creation of additional high quality jobs for North Texans in 2015.

Sugar of course is an inflammatory menace that's secretly causing many health epidemics of today, including acne.

On the other side of the continent, in the West African Sahel, nomadic herders are at risk of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune populations and thus the cause of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development in the region).

The RUAF Foundation regularly organises study visits, including the one - week study visit on social organisation to the Netherlands, for leaders of urban producer organisations from Uruguay, Brazil, Peru and Argentina; the one - week study visit to the Netherlands and the UK on multifunctional urban agriculture and urban land - use planning, for city officials and senior researchers from China; and the study visit to Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa) on the role of urban agriculture in mitigating the effects of the HIV - AIDS epidemics for NGO staff and health officers from Sub Saharan countries, organised in cooperation with CTA (the Netherlands).

This policy statement from the AAP advocates a public health response to the opioid epidemic and substance use during pregnancy, and recommends: a focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and improving access to contraception; universal screening for alcohol and other drug use in women of childbearing age; knowledge and informed consent of maternal drug testing and reporting practices; improved access to prenatal care, including opioid replacement therapy; gender - specific substance use treatment programs; and improved funding for social services and child welfare systems.