Sentences with phrase «health prevention research»

The IPRC is funded by a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct innovative public health prevention research.

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Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.
Though the researcher said there needs to be more research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's disease] prevention
I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prHealth, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prHealth Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prhealth program.
Long - range improvement in both the prevention and treatment of mental illness depends on two factors — training of mental health workers and research.
We support research aimed at stillbirth prevention and care and work to bring emerging evidence to health providers.
His research interests are in health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, influence of sports participation on health, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol attributable harm, physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and motor vehicle safety.
Dr. Janda is an orthopedic surgeon in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the founder and Director of the Institute For Preventive Sports Medicine, a non-profit research organization dedicated to the prevention of sports - related injuries and health care cost containment.
«Maybe we shouldn't be touting breastfeeding as an obesity prevention method, but it's still important,» Ventura, who wasn't part of the research team, told Reuters Health.
Research indicates that most women have low levels of Vitamin D, which has significant consequence for their health, due to the fact that Vitamin D plays a role in the prevention of a wide range of health conditions including diabetes and various forms of cancer.
While focusing on the latest scientific and evidence based research of concussion education, prevention and management, «Concussion Wise ™» is designed to meet the educational needs of athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care providers throughout the nation.
Speakers for The May 7 Concussion Conference include nationally known experts and panels of local concussion professionals comprised of pediatricians, physical therapists, neuropsychologists, and advocates of brain injury prevention and athletic training education: Dr. Tricia McDonough - Ryan, Dr. Thomas Trojian, Katherine Snedaker MSW, Dr. David Wang, Dr. Mike Lee and the team of experts from Gaylord Center for Concussion Care, Representative from CATA; Deb Shulansky from Brain Injury Alliance of CT (BIAC); Brain Injury attorney and BIAC Board member Paul A. Slager; Charlie Wund, Founder & President Agency for Student Health Research; and Dr. Karissa Niehoff, The Executive Director at CT Association of Schools and CT Interscholastic Athletic Conference
The UCLA / RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, a CDC - funded prevention research program, has been test - driving a way to get children drinking more water at mealtime to help combat America's obesity epidemic.
After the hearing, Senator Serino issued a statement, saying that the health department efforts so far have fallen short and that «more is needed from our partners at the State and Federal levels» for research, prevention and to develop more effective testing and treatment options.
«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»
In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.
The study is also the largest research project in Finland that focuses on early detection, intervention and prevention of mental health problems in families with children.
Recent research has pointed to a host of health benefits from drinking green tea, including the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, and oxidation.
And most don't accurately recall how often they drink,» Dr. Anne McTiernan, a cancer prevention researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, told Reuters Health by email.
As law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and public health officials work to develop effective crime - prevention strategies, new research from the University of Iowa finds that individuals who report being victims of crime to police are less likely to become future victims of crime than those who do not report their initial experiences.
«The relationship between TBI and mental health issues is concerning and calls for greater focus on prevention and further research on this issue.»
In this special theme issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, food and nutrition practitioners and other health professionals take an in - depth look at the relationship between nutrition, obesity, and cancer prevention, treatment, and survival and identify research gaps for future prevention research efforts.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 66,000 pediatricians, has repeatedly advocated for stricter gun laws, violence prevention programs, research for gun violence prevention and public health surveillance, physician counseling to patients on the health hazards of firearms and mental health access to address exposure to violence.
At a press conference this morning, the company announced the creation of a new research center, the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, to better understand the role of foods in disease prevention.
President Bill Clinton promised last week that his plan to overhaul the US health care system would «speed research on effective prevention and treatment» for chronic diseases and «safeguard the finest medical research establishment in the entire world».
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by US President Barack Obama in 2010, can advance public health in the USA by supporting increased emphasis on prevention, and reversing the historic division between public health and private health care services, according to the authors of new research published in The Lancet as part of a new Series, The health of Americans.
When Donald Kirkendall, assistant director for prevention research at the National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, reviewed all the research done on the topic, he likewise concluded that children under 12 faced the smallest risk, because they don't play with nearly as much power: Children rarely kick a soccer ball faster than 40 mph.
In particular, he says, decision - makers should consider whether a gain - of - function study makes a contribution to a public - health goal, such as the prevention and treatment of flu, that could justify both the risk and the use of money that could be spent on safer research.
«It's usually a suboptimal technique, and then it's used in a biased way, so it can become very misleading,» said John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, professor of disease prevention and of health research and policy and co-director of the Meta - Research Innovation Center at Sresearch and policy and co-director of the Meta - Research Innovation Center at SResearch Innovation Center at Stanford.
Helping women prevent and survive heart attacks through increased research and improving ethnic and racial disparities in prevention and treatment is a public health priority,» she said.
«In contrast to current recommendations that essentially ban full - fat cheese, current research clearly demonstrate important health benefits of cheese for prevention of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancers.
The paper's lead author, Dr Carsten Flohr, whose work is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas» and King's College London, said: «The WHO recommends between four and six months of exclusive breastfeeding to aid prevention of allergy and associated illnesses.
A new model for post-integration latency in macroglial cells to study HIV - 1 reservoirs of the brain, AIDS, DOI: 10.1097 / QAD.0000000000000691 Link to the original publication As German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München pursues the goal of developing personalized medical approaches for the prevention and therapy of major common diseases such as diabetes mellitus and lung diseases.
About the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NHLBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders.
Call on the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to the CDC to resume research on gun violence prevention.
For her research efforts, Dietrich has registered a number of firsts with journal papers reflecting her work on such diverse topics as: improving cancer therapy through odor and taste intervention; prevention and treatment of obesity by drinking more water; health effects of iron and copper in drinking water; and risks to people over 50 for unhealthy over-exposure to iron in water.
As German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München pursues the goal of developing personalized medical approaches for the prevention and therapy of major common diseases such as diabetes mellitus, allergies and lung diseases.
Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.
As German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München pursues the goal of developing personalized medical approaches for the prevention and therapy of major common diseases such as diabetes mellitus and lung diseases.
Joint programming of research in the field of nutrition, food and health will provide for coordination of research on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on prevention of diet - related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in thresearch in the field of nutrition, food and health will provide for coordination of research on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on prevention of diet - related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in thresearch on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on prevention of diet - related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in thResearch Area on prevention of diet - related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in thresearch activities in this field
She is the recipient of several prestigious local and international awards including South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, from the President of South Africa in 2013 for outstanding work in the field of HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis Research and Health Policy Development, the 2013 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, the 2014 TWAS - Lenovo Prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) «for her exceptional and distinguished contributions to HIV prevention and women's health» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab SHealth Policy Development, the 2013 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, the 2014 TWAS - Lenovo Prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) «for her exceptional and distinguished contributions to HIV prevention and women's health» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab Shealth» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab States.
UNC School of Medicine researcher and public health officials to discuss Zika research and prevention at upcoming event for students, faculty and staff at campus event.
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About the Gladstone Institutes The J. David Gladstone Institutes, an independent, non-profit biomedical research organization affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is dedicated to the health and welfare of humankind through research into the causes and prevention of some of the world's most devastating diseases.
She directed The Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence for Aging Research, the Center on Aging and Health, and the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and led major multidisciplinary research programs on the causes and consequences of frailty, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and disability in older adults, and approaches to preResearch, the Center on Aging and Health, and the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and led major multidisciplinary research programs on the causes and consequences of frailty, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and disability in older adults, and approaches to preresearch programs on the causes and consequences of frailty, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and disability in older adults, and approaches to prevention.
«Scrutinize,» an animated HIV prevention campaign produced in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, was honored with a Khuza Award, South Africa's biggest research - based youth marketing and communications awards.
His contributions to both medical ethics and policy include his work on the ethics of informed consent, umbilical cord blood banking, stem cell research, international HIV prevention research, global health and research oversight.
In 2015, MD Anderson collaborated with certified member St. John's Health System, now part of Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute, and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, to promote skin cancer prevention in a public policy forum in Tulsa.
Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting - edge research from bench to bedside, aimed at unlocking mysteries of the human body in health and sickness and toward developing new treatments and prevention strategies.
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