Sentences with phrase «increase access to medicine»

Americares helps communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, increase access to medicine and medical supplies, improve and expand clinical services, prevent disease and promote good health.

Animal donations can provide families a hand up, increasing access to medicine, school, food and a sustainable livelihood; while promoting the human - animal bond.

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Innovations are allowing medicines and vaccines to be created and distributed at lower cost, increasing access to necessary treatments around the world.

A spokesperson for the drug company told the Financial Times that revenue from increased prices would go to investing in «schemes that ensured more patients could access the medicine.»

In addition to GENYOUth, the summit partners included National Dairy Council, the National Football League, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American School Health Association; health professionals, educators, athletes, students, chefs, and corporations came together not only to explore the connections between health and learning, but to find ways to increase access and participation to programs which benefit students health, learning, and lives.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

Use of a range of wild species of fruit, vegetables, condiments and medicines, as well as wild animal - sourced foods, increase the likelihood that subsistence farmers with access to natural ecosystems meet their nutrition and health needs.

«This is the first national study to identify specific regions of the United States where residents may be at an increased risk for poor clinical outcomes — including misdiagnoses and late detection — as a result of limited access to specialized gynecologic cancer care,» says David Shalowitz, MD, a fellow in the division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and lead author on the study.

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 University of Chicago Medicine announced the next phase of its public engagement campaign in support of its plans to increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care and create a dedicated cancer hospital.

The event marked the first major step in implementing UChicago Medicine's Get CARE plan — which will dramatically increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care, and includes a dedicated cancer hospital.

April 14, 2016 UChicago Medicine to Hold Community Forum on Proposal to Expand Emergency, Trauma and Specialty Care and Create a Cancer Hospital on South Side The University of Chicago Medicine announced the next phase of its public engagement campaign in support of its plans to increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care and create a dedicated cancer hospital.

Dr. Eng presented this year's Herrera Lecture on «Genetics and Genomics - Based Personalized Healthcare: Something Old, Something New» where she gave a historical perspective of personalized medicine, and then detailed the last 6 - years» experience of the Genomic Medicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized heamedicine, and then detailed the last 6 - years» experience of the Genomic Medicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized heaMedicine Institute leading, participating or coordinating efforts for successful integration of genetics processes and clinical genetic services throughout the Cleveland Clinic Health System in order to increase access to genetics - based personalized healthcare.

The joint venture expands the surgical procedures that Michigan Medicine provides at St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea, as well as increases access to Michigan Medicine physicians for patients in Chelsea and across western Washtenaw County.

December 17, 2015 The University of Chicago Medicine announces historic community plan to strengthen access to care for Chicago's South Side UChicago plan includes a level 1 adult trauma center on its campus; new and expanded ER; and increase in hospital beds to meet community needs.

As you learn basic self - care practices from energy medicine, you receive tools to revitalize your body, increase your daily energy, and access greater joy.

Here, they offer insights for patients, students, and practitioners, to help increase awareness of, and access to, integrative medicine.

To increase access to quality healthcare and forward the field of Naturopathic Medicine in the areas of public education, accessibility, and efforts toward licensing naturopathic doctors in Rhode IslanTo increase access to quality healthcare and forward the field of Naturopathic Medicine in the areas of public education, accessibility, and efforts toward licensing naturopathic doctors in Rhode Islanto quality healthcare and forward the field of Naturopathic Medicine in the areas of public education, accessibility, and efforts toward licensing naturopathic doctors in Rhode Island.

That's why I started Parsley Health — a new hybrid model of health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for patients of all walks of life, with new care delivery models that both increase access to better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them feel good too.

A steep increase in out - of - pocket costs for seeing the doctor and getting prescribed medicines would entrench a two class health system in which the well - off access preferential care from their doctors while uninsured patients face higher hurdles and financial barriers to care.

Qualitative evidence indicated an increase in access related to ICDP activities such as the removal of cost barriers to medicines; removal of transport barriers to attend services; improved cultural safety in general practices; support and assistance from ICDP workforce for Indigenous people to access healthcare services; and more community programmes / resources to support healthy lifestyle choices and health - seeking behaviours.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) said it is encouraging that the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Checks have increased, Indigenous peoples» access to medicines has improved, and there have been improvements in infant and child health outcomes but the number of targets not on track were «a clear signal that we have to put politics aside».

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that blocking patients from going to Planned Parenthood in Texas was associated with a 35 % decline in women in publicly funded programs using the most effective methods of birth control and a dramatic 27 % increase in births among women who had previously accessed injectable contraception through those programs.