Sentences with phrase «millions supporting studies»

Well it is a tough problem to solve, but surely you've spent millions supporting studies that will answer that question.

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Data from the IDC study supported Cook's theory and estimated that tablet sales will increase to 190.9 million units while PC sales will decline to 345.8 million units.

The Coalition Government is getting on with the job of delivering our water infrastructure needs, today annowncing $ 1 million to fast - track a feasibility study into improving water quality and supply to support the expansion of the Myalup and Collie River irrigation districts.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

First UK study funded by UNICEF shows that investing in breastfeeding support could save the National Health Service millions of pounds.

The Governor also announced that Ernst & Young, a global professional services firm, will conduct a North Country Lodging Development Feasibility Study to inform lodging development opportunities that will be supported by the $ 13 million fund, as outlined in the Governor's FY 2019 Executive Budget.

Furthering New York's commitment to Upstate tourism, Governor Cuomo announced a $ 13 million fund during his 2018 State of the State that will support strategic lodging opportunities identified by a North Country Lodging Development Feasibility Study.

$ 13 Million Fund Will Support Strategic Opportunities Identified By the North Country Lodging Development Feasibility Study Conducted by Ernst & Young

Despite that contribution, and despite more than $ 300 million in state and county funds sought for the construction, the university refused to share its study with key decision makers who were asked to support the deal.

Additionally, the agency would continue efforts to advance precision medicine and cancer genomics in support of the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect health.

In a study published last month, he and his colleagues suggest that oxygen levels were already high enough to support simple animals, such as sponges, hundreds of millions of years before they actually appeared.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

People diagnosed with cancer gained 3.34 million years of life thanks to cancer clinical trials run by SWOG and supported with public funds, according to new study results to be presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world's largest clinical cancer research meeting.

The study, entitled COMET (Comparison of Operative to Medical Endocrine Therapy) for low - risk ductal carcinoma in situ, received funding through a $ 13.4 million, five - year award from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to support research that enlightens health care decisions.

Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with autism spectrum disorder may reach $ 2.4 million, according to a new study from researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

According to a 2008 study from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the existing grid could support 50 million new PHEV vehicles, assuming that drivers plug in during off - peak hours and allow their batteries to charge at a modest 120 - volt / 15 - amp rate.

More than 1.1 million spouses, parents and friends are caring for the injured and disabled who have served in the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, often doing so without a formal support network and putting their own well - being at risk, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Sritharan has just completed an 18 - month study of Hexcrete supported by $ 1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, $ 83,500 from the Iowa Energy Center and $ 22,500 of in - kind contributions from Lafarge North America Inc. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield», that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

He went on to describe the $ 215 million initiative, which includes new support for cancer genomics and molecularly targeted drug trials at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and a plan to study links among genes, health, and environment in 1 million Americans by pooling participants in existing cohort studies.

At issue is the $ 20 million, 23 - institution SUPPORT (Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial) study, which from 2005 to 2009 studied the levels of oxygen that premature infants should receive.

As millions of Americans struggle to help loved ones with dementia, policymakers should consider more ways to improve long - term services and supports for the soaring numbers of people with the debilitating condition and their caregivers, a new RAND Corporation study says — and it offers possible ways to do so.

Price also said the president's proposal to fold the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) into NIH would not require retaining its $ 334 million budget because NIH supports similar studies on improving health care delivery.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield» (www.leishield.org), that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

WHO today issued a «donor alert,» urgently requesting a 6 - month budget of $ 10.5 million to support the vaccine study (which may require 5000 doses), as well as surveillance, treatment, and conventional prevention and control efforts.

June 6, 2006 $ 10 million from Duchossois family to support cancer research The Duchossois family, longtime champions of science and medicine at the University of Chicago, has made a donation of $ 10 million to support research on cancer and the study of metastasis at the university.

UC San Diego is named one of 16 Vanguard Centers for the Women's Health Initiative of the National Institutes of Health and receives $ 12.2 million to support a 12 - year study of postmenopausal women, with an emphasis on Latina women.

July 7, 2016 UChicago to support NIH million - person precision medicine study The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.

The $ 2 million effort supported by the NIH's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the first of its kind to study no - touch room disinfection.

With an over $ 70 million commitment over multiple years from the NIH and the Wellcome Trust, H3Africa is designed to create and support a pan-continental network of labs that will be equipped to apply leading - edge research to the study of the genetic and environmental basis of disease susceptibility and drug responses in Africans.

The study will enroll patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and is supported by a $ 3.5 million investment from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Therapy Acceleration Program ®.

The Divisions of Cancer Prevention (DCP) and Cancer Biology (DCB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $ 6 million grant to investigators at the University of Michigan to continue support for a Research Center in the Barrett's Esophagus Translational Research Network (BETRNet)-- this consortium studies the connection between Barrett's esophagus and risk for developing esophageal cancer.

April 4, 2000 $ 11 - million grant supports study of how genes affect cancer chemotherapy NIGMS has awarded more than $ 11 million to a team of researchers based at the University of Chicago to investigate how genes influence the response to anti-cancer drugs.

More than 4 million people will receive support to study, train, work, or volunteer abroad.

They took the 10 T2D GWAS loci with the strongest support in their study, and looked for low - frequency missense variants within 2.5 million base pairs of the common index SNV.

In total, this third call will provide 30 million SEK in support for sequence analysis of unique and well - characterized sample collections to study either the genetic basis of disease or environmental effects on biodiversity.

A Penn State College of Medicine research project to study use of a screening tool for pediatric abusive head trauma will be supported by a $ 7.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to Penn State.

In 2010, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received more than $ 4.5 million — one of the largest yoga - related grants ever — from the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute to support an ongoing study of the efficacy of yoga as part of a treatment program for women with breast cancer.

On Sunday February 15, 2015, the Sunday Express in the UK published a headline story stating that Oxford professor Dr. Rory Collins, whose research had been used to support putting millions of patients on statin drugs, was reassessing the data behind those studies for possible drug side effects.

This nontoxic method to boost immunity safely is gaining rapid popularity due to the numerous scientific studies involving millions of people to support its efficacy.

As for Yakult, several million users attest to its probiotic benefits, but studies have not necessarily supported that anecdotal evidence — at least as it pertains to boosting the immune system.

Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions: A Project to Study Postsecondary Access and Success Using State Administrative Data will be supported by a $ 1.6 million grant, part of the foundation's Postsecondary Success initiative to improve college enrollment and completion rates in America.

The Texas Schools Project study is supported by a $ 2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Florida is supporting schools» use of lesson study through its $ 700 million award in the federal Race to the Top competition.

The study comes as the state rolls out an unprecedented $ 250 million investment in school - to - work grants largely aimed at promoting linked learning — although researchers said none of the study's results should diminish support for the effort.

MCPS, in collaboration with the RAND Foundation, has received a grant for $ 1.9 million to study the impact and complementarities between Restorative Justice and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in MCPS schools through December 2020.

That is the question two researchers at Vanderbilt — Ryan Balch (recent Graduate Research Assistant at Vanderbilt's National Center on Performance Incentives) and Matthew Springer (Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education and Director of Vanderbilt's National Center on Performance Incentives)-- attempted to answer in a recent study of the REACH pay - for - performance program in Austin, Texas (a nationally recognized performance program model with $ 62.3 million in federal support).

Through our annual Pet Cancer Awareness campaign, the Petco Foundation, in partnership with Blue Buffalo has invested more than $ 13 million to support clinical trials and university studies working toward a cure, and helped to fund organizations that assist with covering treatment costs for families who couldn't otherwise afford the care.

Backed by CFA's support, Winn provided almost $ 1.5 million into research grants for feline health studies by 1996.