Sentences with phrase «investments in disease»

(2009) Prevention for Healthier America: Investments in disease prevention yield significant savings, stronger communities [issue report].

So we continue to make important investments in disease tracking, and you'll see more of that.

Thompson and others claimed that would have endangered large investments in disease registries, cohort studies, and biobanks.

Between the limited profits to be made from drugs that cure infections and the previous success of antibiotics against gonorrhoea there has been little investment in the disease.

Research investment in these diseases has been poorly documented and global R&D investments are not systematically measured or tracked, meaning there are few cross-funder analyses that show the impact and relevance of funding decisions.

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«I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity... It feels a lot like you're experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

«VCs look to invest in transformative innovations that can significantly improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease,» says Brad Bolzon, managing director and chairman of the investment team at Versant Ventures.

Launched in 2014, Chiesi Ventures is actively seeking out investment opportunities in the field of rare and orphan diseases.

When this has gone on for a while, the «pull» of increasing production in the form of new jobs, greater availability of materials to meet basic needs and more money for investment will lift the bottom line of poverty above destitution and eliminate the worst ravages of hunger, disease and deprivation generally.

Early investments in prevention of low birth weight and stunting, and early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding, contribute to reducing the risk of later obesity and chronic diseases.

It also includes $ 1 billion in new education spending, investments in water quality and money to fight Lyme disease.

«No one is more committed to ending HIV / AIDS than Gov. Cuomo, who with a $ 2.5 billion annual investment, has made New York State a national leader by pledging to end the epidemic by 2020 and providing quality support services to those impacted by the disease,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in an email.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made major investments in network approaches in many areas, including cancer biology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neurophysiology, and human genetics and genomics.

Strategic investments in these areas could accelerate new innovations for the poverty - related neglected diseases:

«Reducing the burden of neglected tropical diseases requires investments in basic research.»

But that outlay for dementia research falls well short of those announced in recent years by the United States and the United Kingdom and even lags Canada's promise at the G8 dementia summit 2 years ago in London to significantly ramp up its investment in research on neurodegenerative diseases as part of a global bid to find a cure for dementia by 2025.

Google founder Sergey Brin's investment in his wife's genome - screening company has gotten even more personal: the product has revealed he carries a genetic mutation linked to Parkinson's disease.

Biden's goal is to catalyze greater investment, coordination, and collaboration in a field marked by multiple initiatives, targeting a complex of many different diseases.

«We should be investing in global functions, like research and development and constraining transmission of drug - resistant disease strains across borders, because these investments will help poor people wherever they live,» said Jamison, who is a senior fellow in Global Health Sciences at UCSF.

One of the arguments for such a large federal investment in research is that it will lead to new and more effective treatments for diseases — leading to reduced healthcare costs, leading to more disposable income, leading to economic prosperity and the continued unbridled freedom of American citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Launched with a $ 215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget, the initiative aims to «give clinicians tools to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying a patient's health, disease, or condition, and to better predict which treatments will be most effective,» according to a statement issued by the White House.

Scientists at the University of Southampton are set to analyse research investments into infectious disease research, particularly pneumonia and maternal and neonatal infections, after receiving over # 370,000 in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

«The high disease burden, particularly amongst young and elderly populations in poor to middle income countries, could potentially be addressed by further investment in research,» says Dr Stuart Clarke from the University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine, who is leading the study.

Advances in genetics and biotech are critically important to treating many diseases and require huge investments that rely on patent protection, but it is often hard to know where the rights of the inventors end and the public's begin.

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

«We... support federal investment in basic and applied biomedical research,» it says, «especially the neuroscience research that may hold great potential for dealing with diseases and disorders such as Autism, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's.»

Moreover, he believes that investment in technologies such as chip - based methods to rapidly test blood or tissue samples for the presence of anthrax or smallpox would speed the development of related diagnostic tools for regular diseases.

Because bartonellosis cases also spike a few months after rising temperatures are registered, there is time to spray for sand flies in endemic areas, said Nelson Solórzano, who heads the bartonellosis unit at the hospital in Caraz The best investment now, Wilson said, would be in setting up regional surveillance networks of climatologists, entomologists and experts in human, animal and even plant diseases.

«This research illustrates the ever - changing world we live in and why we must sustain our nation's investment in research into these types of diseases that the majority of Americans will never hear of,» said David H. Walker, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, whose research has included a focus on tick - borne diseases.

«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.

The majority of research investment comes from high - income countries, whereas the highest burden of infectious disease is in the developing world.

This is especially the case with drugs for developing - world diseases, where the financial investment, both in launching and maintaining research programs and ultimately bringing a candidate drug through clinical development and to market, is very limited.

This promise is reinforced by the strong commitment of the investment and scientific communities in exploring the potential applications across a wide range of vexing diseases and conditions, such as cancer, Parkinson's disease, and diabetes, among many others.

JPND aims to increase coordinated investment between participating countries in research aimed at finding causes, developing cures, and identifying appropriate ways to care for those with neurodegenerative diseases.

Without continued investment in the «lab rats» who dream up and test better drugs, diagnostics and vaccines, we will not be able to reach the millions suffering from TB, and we will not stop this disease.

It will strengthen Ireland's ability to attract foreign direct investment from companies active in the multi-trillion euro global market for diagnostics, treatments and medtech for neurological diseases, and facilitate indigenous companies seeking to access this market.

In August, a group of investors led by Fidelity Investments and a fund backed by Bill Gates poured $ 120 million into Editas Medicine, the Cambridge - based biotech start - up that is using CRISPR techniques to develop cures for more than 5,000 different genetic diseases.

While investments in stem cell research will generate some financial return for the state of California, the primary benefits from these investments will be progress toward improved therapies for the treatment of major chronic and acute diseases.

I think that this investment has accelerated to the pace of research in the field of glaucoma; the number of publications that are really focusing on these mechanistic insights have just exploded in the last ten years, so this investment by Glaucoma Research Foundation was really a catalyst that allowed us to dig in deeper to understanding what's actually happening in the disease as the disease is progressing.

More investment into research is all the more important given that we are close to formidable breakthroughs in many areas of respiratory diseases, such as molecular bacteriology and virology, development of vaccines and antiviral agents, boosting host defence and innate immunity, molecular pathology and personalised care for lung cancer.

A more strategic investment for a dedicated and specific research strategy right across the biomedical sphere and, in particular, for respiratory diseases at EU level is desirable.

This fits perfectly with our objective to pursue rapid development of relevant molecules that reach the right disease targets while avoiding investments in programs based on less well - validated targets.»

I don't think I've ever recommended it to anyone), to preventing and managing more expensive diseases down the road, I believe that an investment in seeing an ND will help save money.

These are classified in three groups, one Issues involving the global community are global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migration

«People think they're making a difference and helping find a cure for disease in this lifetime, but the money's being parked in investment accounts.

The company will optimize investment to focus on future dairy innovations that address the most challenging issues and diseases farmers face in their herds today.

Our investment in research has yielded life - saving vaccines, new treatments for critical diseases, superior screening tests, and advanced diagnostic tools.

Ceva also has made a significant investment in the industry's top organizations that play a leading role in the fight against heartworm disease and other issues impacting the veterinarian community and companion animals.

The solutions examined were: fighting tuberculosis through drugs and improved case identification; getting cheap drugs that treat acute heart disease to developing countries; combining a malaria prevention package (mosquito nets, DDT spray, etc.) with subsidies on new treatments; expanding immunization and micronutrient coverage for children in developing nations; tobacco taxes in developing nations; and a multiple ‐ intervention approach to preventing and treating H.I.V. / AIDS; making investments in hospitals.