Sentences with phrase «heightened awareness of the disease»

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are increasingly common, which medical experts and researches have attributed to better diagnostic imaging, an aging population and heightened awareness of the disease stemming from the 2011 death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs.

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World MRSA Day will provide us with a much needed opportunity to heighten awareness of how MRSA is transmitted and also acknowledge that there is no cure or vaccine for this preventable, mostly un-reported disease in which the true magnitude of the epidemic is still unknown.

National Men's Health Week Cancer Screening Services The purpose of Men's Health Week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.

While acknowledging that changes in diagnostic criteria and heightened awareness may play a role, Collins says that much of the increase «must be due to changes in the environment, which may produce disease in genetically predisposed persons.»

Darryl De Vivo, M.D., Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a Past - President of the Child Neurology Society, noted, «The SMA Foundation's work on behalf of children with SMA on all fronts including academic, governmental and biotechnical initiatives has served to heighten awareness of SMA in particular and Motor Neuron diseases in general.

Introducing a new Family Health Initiative focused on preventive health screening, chronic disease management, and heightened awareness of the benefits of nutrition and physical exercise.