Sentences with phrase «in nonmedical»

Pet therapy is also being used in nonmedical settings, such as universities and community programs, to help people deal with anxiety and stress.

Yet the world's most advanced form of spectroscopy has yet to reach its full potential in nonmedical scientific advances.

«The noteworthy increase in the annual rate of heroin abuse or dependence among non-Hispanic Whites parallels the significant increase in nonmedical opioid use during the last decade and the growing number of heroin overdose deaths described for this race and ethnic group in recent years,» said Martins.

«When you look at statewide or countywide data, the increases in nonmedical exemptions don't look that significant,» Atwell says, «but when you look at community - wide coverage, it is much lower than the threshold needed to maintain herd immunity in some areas.»

The latest survey shows a 14 percent decline in nonmedical use...

The latest survey shows a 14 percent decline in nonmedical use of prescription drugs...

Franchises offer both hourly and live - in nonmedical care services.

Not exact matches

Most focus on nonmedical companion care — three are in our top 100 — but newer franchises have brought innovation to the category.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports 20 % of people ages 12 and older have used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons at least once in their lifetime.

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.

The costs in 2012 U.S. dollars included the therapy, outpatient services, hospitalization, emergency department visits, pharmacy services and nonmedical services, as well as indirect costs such as losses in worker productivity.

Residents living in a census tract within a nonmedical exemption cluster were 20 percent more likely to catch pertussis than those outside a cluster, the analysis revealed.

California's rates of nonmedical exemptions tripled from 0.77 percent in 2000 to 2.33 percent in 2010, and some schools had 2010 nonmedical exemption rates as high as 84 percent.

An article published by JAMA Pediatrics estimates the number of measles cases in U.S. children and the associated economic costs under different scenarios of vaccine hesitancy, which is the delay or refusal to vaccinate based on nonmedical personal beliefs.

In contrast, under Tony Abbott, the previous prime minister who once dismissed climate change as «absolute crap,» nonmedical science had a rough ride.

In 2008 - 2011, the risk of past - year heroin use, ever injecting heroin, past - year heroin abuse or dependence, and the perception of availability of heroin increased as the frequency of nonmedical opioid use increased for all race and ethnicities, but particularly for non-Hispanic Whites.

The research, led by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, sheds light on the racial and ethnic differences in trends of nonmedical opioid and heroin use over time.

Attendees were asked about nonmedical use — defined as using in a manner which is not prescribed (such as to get high)-- of 18 different opioids — including OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, codeine, fentanyl, and heroin.

While all 50 states allow exemptions for children who have a valid medical reason, and almost all states allow nonmedical exemptions for parents with either religious or philosophical objections, the political climate has recently shifted in favor of making exemptions more difficult to obtain.

In 2015, California, long known as a state with lenient provisions and high rates of opting out, followed the example of Mississippi and West Virginia and eliminated nonmedical exemptions.

In one study, nearly 13 percent of high school seniors reported nonmedical use of prescription opioids.

From 2001 through 2004, states that permitted personal belief exemptions had higher nonmedical exemption rates than states that offered only religious exemptions, and states that easily granted exemptions had higher nonmedical exemption rates in 2002 through 2003 compared with states with medium and difficult exemption processes.

Saad B. Omer, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if the rates of nonmedical exemptions differ and have been increasing in states that offer only religious vs. personal belief exemptions, and if the incidence of pertussis is associated with policies of granting personal belief exemptions and ease of obtaining exemptions.

Though nearly 8 percent of the students reported nonmedical amphetamine use and about 7 percent reported nonmedical Adderall use in the past year, about 29 percent of nonmedical Adderall users reported no nonmedical amphetamine use.

The proposed law would establish the first federal safety standards in schools for the use of restraint and seclusion, similar to rules in place in hospitals and nonmedical community - based facilities.

Wouldn't it be cool to try and look for Tipping Points in business, or in social policy, or in advertising or in any number of other nonmedical areas?

Most of these insurance companies specialize in selling «simplified issue» or «nonmedical» insurance policies.

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Medical life insurance policies can take 6 to 8 weeks to get approved, while nonmedical life insurance policies may be approved in 1 to 7 days.

Charges for Treatment which exceed Usual, Reasonable and Customary charges; or Charges incurred for Surgeries or Treatments which are Investigational, Experimental, or for research purposes; expenses which are nonmedical in nature;

Charges for treatment which exceed Reasonable and Customary charges; or Charges incurred for Surgeries or treatments which are Investigational, Experimental, or for research purposes; expenses which are nonmedical in nature;

Minnesota requires a minimum of $ 40,000 in personail injury protection; $ 20,000 of that amount is allowed for medical expenses, and $ 20,000 may be used for lost wages or other nonmedical expenses.

More precisely, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports «70 % of teens have tried alcohol by their senior year in high school, 50 % have abused an illegal drug, 40 % have smoked cigarettes, and 20 % have used prescription drugs for recreational, or for nonmedical purposes.»

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