Sentences with phrase «improve access to treatment»

The overall aim is to improve access to treatment of children with mental health concerns (http://www.mcpap.com/about.asp).

Researchers say the potential cost saving will be tremendous and will improve access to treatment for people with MS.

Taylor's team of researchers examined Medicaid policies for hepatitis C virus treatment using sofosbuvir, more commonly known as Solvadi, and found that most should change policy to improve access to the treatment.

Among the recommendations of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's heroin task force are a few ideas to improve access to treatment.

THE BRONX — The city is working on a $ 300 million plan to move 16 - and 17 - year - old inmates off Rikers Island to improve access to treatment programs, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

I applaud New York State for recognizing the problem and taking steps to not only improve access to treatment, but also to crack down on doctors and pharmacists who illegally sell opioid pills, which could lead to even more people getting addicted to heroin.»

Improving access to treatments provides another opportunity to increase survival.

«More people need to be tested at an early stage, without clinical symptoms,» says Papa Salif Sow, who helps oversee Gilead's efforts to improve access to treatments in Africa.

19 & 20/11 — Lyn will be touring around some of our services and likely to tweet about alcohol and other drug issues, Hep C and improved access to treatment, prisoner health, homelessness, health literacy, oral health, early intervention, early years / child health.

In an effort to reduce the prevalence of this disease, diabetes grant projects typically support diabetes prevention, education, and improved access to treatment for underserved populations.

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She is enthusiastic about increasing awareness of selective mutism and improving access to effective treatment.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

It should also mean ensuring people can access treatment at the earliest possible opportunity, to improve their chances of recovering.

He unveiled a two - pronged approach to narrowing the health gap; by improving access to primary care and focusing on prevention as much as treatment.

The goal of the task force was to find strategies to address the root causes of the epidemic, improve access to life - saving treatment, and expand support to those in recovery.

Improves access to care by requiring insurers to use recognized, evidence - based and peer - reviewed clinical review criteria, approved by the State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), when making decisions regarding the medical necessity of treatment.

«From improving access to healthcare treatments and services, to removing barriers to employment, all five of these bills take important steps to ensure that veterans have every opportunity to continue succeeding when they return home.»

«I have carefully considered the facts, and after meeting with patients and their families I have come to the conclusion it's time for New York to offer a highly restrictive, tightly regulated network to provide patients access to treatment that will improve their quality of life,» O'Mara said in a statement released today.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

«Understanding these challenges is critical to improving access to ART today and to helping ensure patients who travel across borders to receive ART treatment receive high - quality care.»

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

Today he directs the Innovations in International Health program at MIT, and his inventions (including an inhalable measles vaccine and a system that monitors tuberculosis treatment) are helping to improve medical access in the developing world.

UCLA scientists have unlocked an important mechanism that allows chemotherapy - carrying nanoparticles — extremely small objects between 1 and 100 nanometers (a billionth of a meter)-- to directly access pancreatic cancer tumors, thereby improving the ability to kill cancer cells and hence leading to more effective treatment outcome of the disease.

«Improving access to child psychiatrists through consultation services and collaborative care models may help address potential undertreatment while also reducing the risk of prescribing medications before other treatments have been tried.

According to Professor Chris Beyrer, Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights, USA, who coordinated the Series, «Efforts to improve HIV prevention and treatment by and for people who sell sex can no longer be seen as peripheral to the achievement of universal access to HIV services and to eventual control of the pandemic.

Moreover, sex workers» access to evidence - based treatment and prevention strategies needs to be greatly improved — and research needs to be urgently undertaken into how these strategies work for female, male, and transgender sex workers.

«In many developing countries, the median life expectancy for hemophilia patients is 11 years due to the lack of access to treatment, but our new oral delivery of factor IX can now overcome these issues and improve the worldwide use of this therapy.»

«With increased access to this potentially life - saving treatment, we can continue to improve outcomes for the growing population of elderly patients fighting early stage cancer.»

The Commission makes five recommendations regarding neural modification: first, to prioritize existing strategies to maintain or improve neural health, such as diet, and adequate exercise and sleep; to prioritize the treatment of neurological disorders; to study neural modifiers and examine their prevalence, benefits and risks; to ensure equitable access so individuals of all socioeconomic levels can access the benefits of these advancements; and fifth, to create guidance on the use of neural modifiers.

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.

The researchers — who publish their findings in the journal Brain today — hope that the treatment will eventually improve the ability of stroke patients with aphasia across the NHS to access intensive treatment, and improve their symptoms and speech recovery after stroke.

The NTD Mapping Tool also allows visualization of distribution of loiasis, as well as treatment status and new maps on access to improved sanitation and water sources.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

In the spring of 2016, the company opened new clinical health care facilities, a $ 1,000,000 investment that features improved housing, diagnostic, and treatment equipment which provide for superior care and immediate access to important measures of animal health and well - being.

Through this program, our survivors can be carefully monitored for long - term effects and given timely interventions, while our clinicians and researchers have access to data that can be used to further improve cancer treatments.

November 23, 2015 New test may improve diagnosis and treatment of pancreatobiliary and other gastrointestinal cancers By collecting samples from the portal vein — which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver — physicians can learn far more about a patient's pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm.

At a second level, the intelligent analysis of data provided by the first level, supported with a disease management system will allow the neurologist in charge to access accurate and reliable information to decide about the treatment that best suits the patient, improving the management of their disease, in particular to adjust so called therapeutic window.

Physicians and scientists work closely together to continually improve the ways in which we diagnose and treat head and neck, brain and spine tumors, and offer our patients access to innovative techniques, new drugs, and clinical trials of the most - advanced treatment approaches.

«This should help improve access to care in disadvantaged populations, as well as improve awareness of treatment options.»

(g) Working to ensure that the next generation is born HIV - free by providing, on an urgent basis, extended and sustainable coverage and improved quality of services to prevent mother - to - child transmission as well as increasing access to paediatric HIV treatment services....

In the post, he explains that because many important people have access to credit scores — including lenders, landlords, and insurance companies — individuals must work to improve their scores if they want to receive the best financial treatment possible.

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association is leading a campaign to improve access to veterinary therapeutics, a treatment option that some pets are denied because of regulatory or financial issues.

We are passionately committed to improving the lives of pets with cancer by providing in - depth information and access to the latest treatments available.

By offering onsite veterinary MRIs and CTs, we provide access to safe and accurate diagnostic imaging that improves the care your patients receive and allow treatment to begin more rapidly.

As the treatment continues to gain popularity in the veterinary field, your pet will have better access to improved technology.

Proposition B promotes the humane treatment of dogs in Missouri's large - scale commercial dog kennels, which will improve the lives of dogs by requiring large - scale breeding operations to limit the number of breeding female dogs to 50, as well as provide each dog with common sense standards such as sufficient food and clean water, regular veterinary care, adequate housing and space, and access to regular exercise.

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Minemyer starts his column with the statement that litigation reform is an issue «central to improving the cost of healthcare and access to treatment.»

These advances have had limited impact on community care, with current data indicating high unmet need28 - 30 and poorer quality and outcomes for community treatment compared with efficacy studies.31, 32 We address these gaps by evaluating a quality improvement intervention aimed at improving access to evidence - based treatments for depression (particularly CBT and antidepressant medication) in primary care settings.

Specifically, the Improving Mood — Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) 2 model of care implemented in US primary care settings has set the standard for collaborative care at an international level.