Sentences with phrase «more access to treatment»

Declaring a national emergency could help deliver additional funds and more access to treatment and gives the government more flexibility to act quickly.

Not exact matches

All we have to do is look at how the Trump campaign asked for and received more favorable media treatment from Sinclair Broadcasting, in return for more access to Trump.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

«More and more residents in the Outaouais are going to Ottawa to receive treatment, because of a lack of access,» Mercier candidate AmirKhadir sMore and more residents in the Outaouais are going to Ottawa to receive treatment, because of a lack of access,» Mercier candidate AmirKhadir smore residents in the Outaouais are going to Ottawa to receive treatment, because of a lack of access,» Mercier candidate AmirKhadir said.

«Even before this crisis started to gain a foothold and grow in our province more than three years ago, individual and families afflicted with substance abuse challenges struggled to gain access to treatment.

Today, more than five million Canadians have access to Best Doctors, a global company that brings together the best medical minds to help people get the right diagnosis, treatment and information.

Despite having all the preparation (all of the suggestions mentioned by Marissa and then some), and having access to the very best support (supportive family, close friend who is a LC, etc.) and treatment, I had all of the above challenges, and none were resolved with the treatment (weekly or more frequent visits to the Newman clinic for 14 weeks, osteopathy, chiropractic, doperidone, herbs, etc).

We have offices across the state, giving more patients access to the latest innovations and treatment options than ever before.

To make our treatments more affordable, we have a unique payment policy and offer several payment plans, including The Access Plan and The Option Plan.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

The # 450 million investment in the IAPT programme means more people than ever are getting access to the right kind of treatment, care and support minister Norman Lamb pointed out.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

Her Christmas song «Happy Birthday JC» is being re-released in December for this Christmas to raise funds for Tree of Hope to allow more children to access the life changing SDR treatment.

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would provide cancer patients more access to affordable treatments.

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.»

As elected officials struggle to address the ongoing opioid crisis, one of the more controversial proposals has been legal injection sites, where addicts would have access to clean needles, medical staff, and a variety of information and services — including treatment options.

As a matter of urgency, we need to train more healthcare professional (doctors, nurses, and pharmacist) in paediatric oncology, expand treatment access to at least three others centres (Tamale, Cape Coast and Volta regions); and equip these facilities with good Labourites to be able to detect both solid and blood cancers.

Her Christmas song «Happy Birthday JC» was re-released on 1st December to raise funds for Tree of Hope to support more children and help them access life changing treatment and surgery.

Governor Cuomo today awarded more than $ 4 million to develop ten 24/7 Open Access Centers to deliver immediate engagement, assessment and referral service options to those seeking treatment for substance abuse.

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

«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.

David Matia, a drug court judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where deaths also have risen significantly, said incentives are needed to get hospitals to build more detox facilities, to encourage physicians to expand access to medication assisted treatments and to encourage medical students to pursue addiction and behavioral health specialties as their area of practice.

He cautioned that policy responses must be measured to guard against making it more difficult for those who legitimately suffer from acute or chronic plain to get access to treatment.

As opposed to blunt regulatory solutions that decrease access to opioids in an indiscriminant way, education is a more finely tuned approach that can empower clinicians to make appropriate, well - informed treatment decisions for every patient at each clinical encounter.

More people need access to treatment programs that offer a combination of psychotherapy and anti-addiction medications, the panelists said.

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.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

«More access to opioid treatment programs needed in Southeast, says study.»

In the new year, NHS England is set to announce the details of another cull to prescription services — limiting access to treatments for more common ailments, such as eye drops and laxatives.

He says acts of ill - treatment by rogue operatives acting alone are more likely to be routine low - grade violence — «the odd slapping» — and neglect, such as withholding food or access to toilets.

As we are seeing more women survive breast cancer, we need to focus on long term survivorship issues and ensuring that women have access to this important part of treatment,» says study first author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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.

«More than half of the world's HIV population is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa where there is very limited access to HIV drugs and treatment.

The findings, which could lead to new treatments for a disease that kills more HIV / AIDS patients than tuberculosis, appear in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM.)

The IOM report recommends, in the short - term, that doctors and patients should be better informed about pain and currently available treatments; barriers to accessing pharmaceuticals should be removed; and alternative treatments that have demonstrated some efficacy, such as physical therapy, should be made more available and covered by insurance.

«Social circumstances or lifestyles may make it more difficult for some people to recognise the symptoms of TB, access healthcare services, follow a treatment or attend regular healthcare appointments.

The statistics within Europe also show a large gap in access to treatment with transmission rates as much as 4 - 10 times higher in some parts of Eastern Europe (0.46 % transmission in the UK, compared to 2 - 4 % in Russia and 4 - 5 % in the Ukraine), where prevalence of HIV in pregnant women is higher and access to antiretroviral drugs more limited.

And when an entire neighborhood is poor, the risks are more concentrated and resources are harder to access, which is why people struggle to find a new job or get treatment for an illness, King said.

So it seems odd, he says, «that such effective treatment was ever considered a low priority — or that access to it should have been delayed or made more administratively complex than access to less efficacious therapies.»

«Medicare Part D was created to increase access to prescription drug treatment among beneficiaries, but our data suggest that current policies are interfering with that goal when it comes to specialty drugs,» said Doshi, adding that making Part D out - of - pocket costs more consistent, and limiting them to more reasonable sums would help mitigate this negative impact.

Walker says that this approach could make it possible to slow the aging process throughout the entire body, including the brain, by accessing more accessible organs like the intestine, rather than key organs that are technically difficult to deliver treatments to.

In the West, strong intellectual property rights have encouraged the «development of stand - alone blockbuster products,» the group says, whereas the national health systems in East Asia may allow patients access to more individualized, innovative treatments.

The researchers showed that implementation in 2011 of a 10 - hospital stroke system more than doubled rapid access to state - of - the - art care for stroke patients, including a 30 - minute reduction in onset - to - treatment time.

As a new member of the elite Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, we have access to even more new treatments earlier than other facilities, and we are supporting the continued advancement of myeloma therapies.

If more specialized care is needed, Penn patients have access to the most advanced treatment options and a team of experts in various specialties dedicated to keeping you healthy for a lifetime.

Although much is known about the biology of addiction and more is being discovered all the time, our response to people suffering from this condition has been one of stigmatization, compounding problems, and making access to effective treatment difficult.

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.

Where the money goes: In 2007, the Avon Foundation awarded more than $ 43 million in grants to organizations and medical centers for breast cancer awareness, education, screening and diagnosis, access to treatment, support services, and research.

What's more, many lack access to adequate treatment, despite legislation implemented over the last 10 years designed to reduce these gaps in health coverage.

I am lucky because I have access to so many health resources, so I have probably done more than most people can, but others could use even a portion of my treatment.