Sentences with phrase «human health and medicine»

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Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

«There are no randomized, controlled trials in human beings that show that these nootropics have any benefits above and beyond what we would see if someone were to follow a healthy diet and maintain regular exercise,» Dr. Tsourounis says, adding, «You should always talk to your doctor or health - care provider before starting any supplement or any medicine.»

Walter is a graduate of Harvard University and currently serves as an Executive in Residence at Johns Hopkins Medicine and an Innovation Fellows Technical Advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pictured at previous FORTUNE events (clockwise from top right): Helena Foulkes, Executive Vice President, CVS Health and President, CVS Pharmacy; Craig Venter, Co-founder and CEO, Human Longevity and Dr. David Agus, Director, USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine; Martine Rothblatt, Chair and Co-CEO, United Therapeutics; James Park, CEO of Fitbit.

There has been some talk lately» though not nearly enough» about the new healthcare mandate authored by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

If Christ's teaching about marriage and family is not the medicine for overcoming the hardness of the human heart about which he speaks in Matthew 19:8, and if he hadn't been able to restore health to something as basic to human life as marriage, family and sexuality, then he wouldn't be the one the human race was looking for.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

then stop claiming he is a being of love and compassion because anyone with half a heart would say health care is a human right, and only someone without a heart would tell a child «no money, no medicine.»

Hugh Montgomery is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL, where he also directs the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance.

From the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health — all in Boston (D.M., A.A., M.J.S., W.C.W.); and the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, and Wageningen Center for Food Sciences — both in Wageningen, the Netherlands (M.B.K.).

When old people rolled up on their Hovarounds to test their own blood pressure on the machine that I dominated for three plus hours, I shooed them away by throwing their medicine into the diarrhea aisle and telling them to register any complaints on the Health & Human Services website.

(Information gathered from the CDC; Human Milk Bank Association of North America; Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol # 8 Human Milk Storage Information for Home Use for Full - Term Infants.)

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal - Fetal Medicine Units Network.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year ofHealth Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year ofhealth organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

The study has received the approval of the administration of the Souissi Maternity Hospital in Rabat, as well as the approval of the ethics committee for biomedical research at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat, registered with the Office for Human Research Protection of the US Health and Human Services Department (Registration Number: IORG0006594).

She has published many peer - reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine, and has special research interests in chronic breast pain, human milk storage, nipple shield use, and outpatient breastfeeding education for health professionals.

At 3:30 p.m., former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius receives an honorary degree and delivers the keynote address at the Icahn School of Medicine's 47th graduation ceremony, Lincoln Center, Manhattan.

«Our future in medicine and in health depends on understanding the information contained in the human genome, so it's a great topic for Science Week,» said Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

Erie County, NY — The Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH»), in partnership with the University of Buffalo's («UB») Clinical and Translational Science Center and the Department of Family Medicine, and CAI («Cicatelli Associates Inc.») has received a $ 2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health («OAH»).

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Human Rights Contact: Rebecca Everly The Committee on Human Rights uses the influence and prestige of the institutions the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine represents on behalf of scientists, engineers, and health professionals anywhere in the world.

Graduate Student Winner Wasima Khan, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam Essay Title: «Profits, Medicine, and the Human Right to Health in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Educating (Future) Business Leaders»

«Nanotechnology in Global Medicine and Human Biosecurity: Private Interests, Policy Dilemmas, and the Calibration of Public Health Law.»

«They are developing the clinical genomics necessary to foster and support the Precision Medicine Initiative of the National Institutes of Health, and generating the genomics data that further drives human genome research.»

She says she was drawn toward bench work in industry rather than at a university because the private sector work seemed more directly transferrable to creating medicine and helping human health.

The first comprehensive scientific treatise on our reliance on other species, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, published in 2008, confirmed the importance of genetic variety, describing groups of threatened organisms crucial to agriculture and human mediHuman Health Depends on Biodiversity, published in 2008, confirmed the importance of genetic variety, describing groups of threatened organisms crucial to agriculture and human medihuman medicine.

Paul D. Blanc, a professor of medicine and author of How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace, discusses how hazardous chemicals in consumer products affect human health

Science Translational Medicine publishes research that matters for human health, filling the knowledge gaps between research and medical application to improve patient care worldwide.

The contest involves writing a 500 - word essay in English, or 1,500 characters in Japanese, about translational medicine, which is a relatively new scientific field where human health is promoted by facilitating communication among those dedicated to basic and clinical research and its application.

The study, which is published in Human Reproduction, one of the world's leading reproductive medicine journals, looked at 51,450 women who had agreed to take part in nine studies in the UK, Scandinavia, Australia and Japan that contribute to the Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events (InterLACE) international collaboration.

«Every human carries trillions of bacteria in their gut (gut microbiome) and recent advances in research indicate that these tiny passengers play an important role in our overall health maintenance,» says Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

Their findings, which have been published online in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, expand the type of gut - resident microorganism that can affect the health of their host and suggest that related parasites may cause gastrointestinal disease in humans.

In a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industry.

«Telomeres, the protein caps on the ends of human chromosomes, are markers of aging and overall health,» said Naruhisa Yamaki, M.D., a clinical fellow at the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.

The meta - analysis, published online Jan. 20, 2013, in Annals of Internal Medicine, pools results from 15 investigations, slightly more than half of which were done after a 1996 federal law prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from funding research that could be seen as promoting gun control.

Regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in science, which seeks to understand the mechanistic basis of tissue aging, repair, and regeneration and to leverage this knowledge to improve human health.

of Public Health, Midland, MI and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, School of Human Medicine, «Our study group consists of premature infants with birthweights at the lowest level that is compatible with life.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

«This latest finding provides a concise and direct synthesis pathway that, due to the structure of the products delivered, will likely be quite valuable for the discovery and development of therapeutic agents,» says Micalizio, whose work focuses on the design of organic chemical reaction methods and strategies to improve medicine and human health.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

Antibiotic resistance must be approached using an interdisciplinary strategy based upon collaboration and communication across the fields of human, animal, and ecological health, said Laura Kahn, a co-founder of an multidisciplinary medicine initiative.

«Generally speaking, I found that greening was more prevalent where violent crime, property crime and victimless crime were going down,» said Sadler, an assistant professor of public health in the College of Human Medicine.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the Labor / Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full - text articles.

«This new method pushes the detection limit for estrogens to a level that is applicable to research, human health, medicine, and environmental analysis.

Principle investigator Shuk - mei Ho, PhD, director of the Cincinnati Cancer Center, Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, says that human exposure to BPA is a common occurrence and that animal studies have shown that BPA contributes to development of prostate cancer but that human data are scarce.

These findings come from the largest study to date to investigate the health of ART babies over time; data from more than 92,000 children in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden were analysed for the study, which is published online in Human Reproduction, one of the world's leading reproductive medicine journals.

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer - reviewed journal Oncotarget.

The study, appearing in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted by researchers at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and other institutions.

In a recent issue of Nutrients and an upcoming publication of the International Journal of Molecular Medicine, Sang - Moo Kang reports the beneficial effects of ginseng, a well - known herbal medicine, on humanMedicine, Sang - Moo Kang reports the beneficial effects of ginseng, a well - known herbal medicine, on humanmedicine, on human health.

«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.