Sentences with phrase «health standards which»

In other words, our health is being compared up against mediocre health standards which is classified as «good health» in our society, when in actuality, that «good health» may not actually be optimal.

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For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

Lastly, the network standard will also help usher in a new era of «personalized health care,» in which massive volumes of patient data can be used to develop predictive analytics which can then be tailored to an individual patient and their illness.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

In the case of malaria — which hits hardest in Africa — clinical trials must be conducted in countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials require.

The three NAFTA countries agreed to toughen health, safety, and industrial standards to the highest existing standards among the three countries (which were always U.S. or Canadian).

Micro-cultivators would be allowed to grow marijuana with a plant canopy of 200 square metres, which Health Canada described as equivalent to half the space between the blue lines on a standard Canadian hockey rink.

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There are complex problems regarding standards of health and methods of treatment which belong within the province of professional medicine and are beyond the scope of lay inquiry and of ordinary education.

There is a three year transition period which means that by 18 January 2016, foods carrying nutrition content claims, health claims and endorsements will need to comply with the new Standard.

«FSANZ's approval process, which ensures the highest standard of health protection, provides a model for decision - making in all countries wishing to reap the benefits of Golden Rice» asserts Morell.

Both the Ölfus Spring source and our facility are also regularly inspected by the Icelandic Public Health Authority, which carries out stringent tests to ensure the facility is operating in compliance with WHO standards.

Two health visitors in Grantham, Lincolnshire, conducted a comparative study in which one continued to use the standard letter about the primary birth visit, while the other used a new father - inclusive version (below).

value winning over safety, so much so that they are willing to risk the health of their «star» athletes for the sake of team success by employing a double standard when it comes to concussion safety - one for regular players, another, more lienient one for «stars» - which helps them justify putting a key player who has been «dinged» or «had his bell rung» back into the game.

The new standards ensure that children can enjoy nutritious food at school which supports their health and education.

Named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up humankind, this company — which touts its «FDA standards for clinical and scientific validity» — offers genetic health risk and carrier status reports, gives ancestry percentages down to 0.1 percent, and the opt - in ability to join the DNA Relative Finder.

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Congress seems likely to raise federal reimbursements by a few cents — which is more than it sounds but still less than the White House requested — and tie the increase to more thorough health standards.

I don't understand why developing countries have become the standard by which we measure the health or appropriateness of particular practices.

Elisabetta Gardini, from the European People's Party (EPP) said: «Today «s vote is in line with the spirit of the international standards on marketing and mothers «milk substitutes developed by the World Health Organization, which aim to ensure that there is no form of advertising or promotional material for substitute products of mother «s milk.

Creation of new standards, which public health advocates have sought for a decade, has unprecedented support from many of the nation's largest food and beverage companies.

This growth comes from systematic violations of baby milk marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, according to the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), which monitors company policies and practices around the world.

Unlike other available Fenugreek supplements which can require taking up to 8 capsules per day, Fairhaven Health's Fenugreek contains a unique blend of organic Fenugreek Seed Powder, along with a concentrated Fenugreek Seed Powder extract (8:1), delivering a dose equivalent to 2000 mg of standard fenugreek seed powder in just 2 vegetarian capsules each day.

Doesn't seem like a huge shift, but «it's important for parents to remember that if you add it all up, the new standard will mean that in a given week, school kids will be eating only 40 % whole grains in total, which is not quite as high as health experts recommend,» says Siegel.

Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail environments in New York City, USA; a programme promoting increased water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.

To inform the department's initial proposal, KSHF conducted a health impact assessment in 2012, which found that children's access to and consumption of healthy snack items and their participation in meal programs would increase with the implementation of stronger standards.

She tells us trash cans are «overflowing» with healthful food, but did she read three recent studies — from the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Connecticut and the Baylor College of Medicine — which found no increased plate waste due to the implementation of the new meal standards?

She tells us trash cans are «overflowing» with healthful food, but did she read three recent studies — from the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Connecticut and the Baylor College of Medicine, which found no increased plate waste due to the implementation of the new meal standards?

They were science - based recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, recommendations which were referred to at the time of their release as representing the «gold standard for evidence - based health analysis.»

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Baby Milk Action is currently organising protests to expose how Nestlé — which has controlled the SMA brand since December 2012 — is targeting health workers in breach of World Health Assembly marketing stanhealth workers in breach of World Health Assembly marketing stanHealth Assembly marketing standards.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Canada 1991, which obligates Canada to ensure that children are able to achieve the highest attainable standard of health.

We have asked NHS England - the body which oversees the NHS — to introduce for the first time new waiting time and access standards for mental health services from 2015.»

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

How does a government open the door to foreign - grown food which might be cheaper, without importing lower health standards or putting Welsh hill farmers on the dole?

He stumbles a bit and takes long pauses, all of which come across as highly amateurish to me, but the standard Corbyn health warning applies: what most journalists see as amateurish in the Labour leader is regarded as refreshingly authentic by his supporters.

Dame Ruth concluded: «The review we have carried out demonstrates just how far the prison system needs to travel if it is to deliver a standard of health care and support for prisoners which is sufficient to make a sustained impact on offenders» problem drug use once they leave.»

The Department of Health (DoH) ordered the Care Quality Commission (CQC) not to brief the press on an inspectors» report into the trust, which found appalling standards of hygiene, the emails said.

The state's Department of Health, which applies federal standards and sets its own, has been criticized for failing to devote sufficient resources to the issue.

The New York State Legislature is currently considering the Reproductive Health Act (S - 348), which Democrats say would bring New York up to current federal reproductive health standards, but has also raised red flags in the minds of many Republcans and anti-abortion activists for ambiguities of language they claim would expand abortion - on - dHealth Act (S - 348), which Democrats say would bring New York up to current federal reproductive health standards, but has also raised red flags in the minds of many Republcans and anti-abortion activists for ambiguities of language they claim would expand abortion - on - dhealth standards, but has also raised red flags in the minds of many Republcans and anti-abortion activists for ambiguities of language they claim would expand abortion - on - demand.

Although ozone pollution is dropping across many parts of the United States, western Europe and Japan, many people living in those countries still experience more than a dozen days every year in which levels of the lung irritant exceed health - based standards.

ven so, during 2010 - 2014 people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the U.S. health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP currihealth education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriHealth and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

But federal regulators say Yates violates the national health standard for fine particles, which can lodge in lungs and trigger heart attacks and respiratory disease.

The first order set list design was an opt - in version in which no lab tests were pre-selected; this is the standard method of lab test ordering in electronic health records for most healthcare facilities.

This type of integrated care model is more common in other medical disciplines, Woolf - King said, citing pediatric oncology as an example in which recommendations have been established as part of standard care to assess mental health routinely and over time for parents of children with cancer.

A key recommendation, Clark says, is for «the FDA to move beyond its standard matrix of considerations for drug safety and — at least for opioids — move into a more public health — centered matrix of considerations which could help us predict what might happen for people beyond the intended recipient of the drug.»

A trial testing a potential post-deployment screening program for UK Armed Forces personnel, based on a computerised assessment and tailored mental health advice, found it was not effective in reducing symptoms of mental health disorders or encouraging personnel to seek help, compared to the general mental health advice which is the standard of care in the UK military.

Taiwan's compulsory national health insurance program reimbursement policy requests that doctors stop prescribing statins once the patient's cholesterol reaches the treatment goal, which is contrary to standard treatment in the United States.

The root of the problem, according to EWG, is failure on the part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite repeated requests from public health and consumer advocates, to implement sunscreen safety standards, some of which were proposed by government scientists more than three decades ago.