Sentences with phrase «health scourges»

The failures extend historically from tobacco, to asbestos to the health scourges of coal, and now to the health and community impacts of the unconventional gas industry.

Not exact matches

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) fihealth community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) fiHealth Organization (WHO) figures.

Yet on himself he bore our sufferings, our torments he endured, while we counted him smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery; but he was pierced for our transgressions, tortured for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore is health for us and by his scourging we are healed.

De Blasio's health commissioner said she thinks supervised sites for drug addicts to shoot up are an effective way to fight to opioid scourge.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Mayor de Blasio's health commissioner said she thinks supervised sites for drug addicts to shoot up are an effective way to fight to opioid scourge.

Another example of our success in building on the past is how we are protecting Public Health: Through the creation of the anti-opioid task force, Erie County is leading the way in developing a community - wide response to the scourge of opioid addiction.

Ms. Barrios - Paoli lacks the higher profile of some of Mr. de Blasio's other deputies, but with a portfolio that includes health and human services, she'll be overseeing the city's response to a rapidly growing homelessness problem — a scourge that threatens to hurt Mr. de Blasio's affordable housing bona fides.

City hall's crackdown on corner stores is meant to curb what Mayor Stephanie Miner has in the past called a scourge in many neighborhoods — corner stores that have health and safety issues, leading to neighborhood complaints.

Health ministers from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) 193 member states will next week debate when to destroy the two last known remaining stocks of the virus that causes smallpox, a scourge that was eradicated in 1980.

But only with the emergence of a genetic tool called CRISPR / Cas9 — the bottle opener that unleashed the genie — has gene drive technology offered the prospect of providing a speedy means to end some of the world's greatest health and ecological scourges.

Tremendous strides have been made in eradicating infectious disease scourges such as smallpox and polio that once killed and crippled millions; still, about 15 million deaths — or about one third of all deaths annually — result from infectious diseases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization

To explore the health consequences of quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers introduced into the flow a molecule that acts as an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by the well - known scourge of hospitals, methicillin - resistant S. aureus, or MRSA.

Health experts have made «record - breaking progress» in getting some of these ancient scourges under control, Margaret Chan, director of the World Health Organization, said in a statement.

Back in the 1980s, he was the chief of hematology at the National Institutes of Health and witnessed firsthand the terrible scourge of transfusion - transmitted AIDS.

Now, for the first time, a report on flukes being prepared by the WHO puts the spotlight on this scourge in an attempt to alert health authorities to their importance.

«Fake drugs are a scourge for public health,» says Lebel.

«This week we will look closely at how we can tackle the many threats to the health of the world's oceans, including the scourge of marine plastic pollution,» May said, as the Independent reported.

Fine particles of such smoke lodge deep in the lungs of women preparing meals, gifting them a dark scourge of ill - health and premature death.

With a focus on health, law enforcement and improving education, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott has launched a national task force this week to help tackle the growing and deadly scourge of crystal methamphetamine, ABC news reported.