Sentences with phrase «much of human health»

While medical insurance may cover much of human health care costs, most often, pet owners cover their companion animals» health care expenses out of pocket.
Yet much of human health and disease relies upon proteins working outside cells, from wound healing to bone formation.

Not exact matches

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.
His action spared much of the harm that some countries still face as result of the devastating effects of lead on human health.
Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
The secular community with some justification has resisted insights which appear to come from religion and theology, since so much of this has been clearly antithetical to the facts of human beings and their development and to mental and social health in general.
Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.
Start with the bloat and waste in Depts of Education and Health and Human Services whose combined budgets are much larger than the DoD.
In reality, the amount of protein associated with optimal human health, as supported by science and epidemiology (the incidence of disease amongst various populations), is much lower than you think.
Many more further detailed the destruction being wrought on the environment by industrial livestock farming and the dangerous effects on human health of eating too much meat.
Some words of wisdom grace the walls with none other than Albert Einstein's famous quote,» Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.»
I hate to admit that I also went through a period where I wished we didn't have the cats, but as the human kids aged out of the putting - everything - in - mouth stage & started to avoid health hazards on their own, I was able to love the furry kids as much as I ever did.
When parents and the community are ignorant of nutrition as so many people are, the child's health will suffer, precisely because our government allows food manufacturers to produce, market and sell entirely too much food that harms human health.
They do so much to improve people's health and well being and we're happy to be a part of their continual progress and innovation when it comes to achieving their mission,» said Sean Kelly, CEO and co-founder of HUMAN Healthy Vending.
According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, placing your baby to sleep on her stomach raises the risk of SIDS substantially, perhaps as much as 20 %.
Both in terms of expertise and influence, scientists, engineers and health professionals have much to contribute to efforts to promote and protect human rights.
However, much more can be achieved when the science, engineering and health communities embrace human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of human rights.
Much like healthy bacteria in one's gut supports health of the human body, fungus in soil can be integral to survival of trees.
Virgin, an immunologist, said he thinks the new findings will produce a more complicated but also much more insightful picture of how human, bacterial and viral genes influence human health.
«We hope that the finding from this study will stimulate much - needed additional studies into the potential environmental hazards to human health, including the health of pregnant women.»
Heat waves are the most dangerous weather for human health but a new technique may allow for as much as two weeks of advance notice
Stanford professor's calculations indicate that wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter play a much bigger role in climate change and human health than previously thought.
Although much of the new work has strengthened suspected links between BPA and human - health problems, one rigorous study has come back with negative results.
AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small - business contracts.
According to the Australian researchers, current apprehension about human - animal co-sleeping and bed sharing between parents and their children focuses too much on possible negative aspects or consequences, such as poor health, impaired functioning, the development of problematic behavior, and even sexual dysfunction.
A neuroscientist at Rutgers University - Newark says the human brain operates much the same whether active or at rest — a finding that could provide a better understanding of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental health conditions that afflict an estimated 13.6 million Americans.
But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.
The U.S. government pours $ 412 million into research at MIT each year, and today the Department of Health and Human Services invests twice as much as does the Department of Defense.
Deleting a single gene from mosquitoes can make them highly resistant to the malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute.
«Even without the catalytic mufflers, there are much lower emissions of air pollutants that can have adverse effects on human health and promote the formation of smog.»
Their survey is part of a growing push to look beyond the bacteria that make up the much - discussed microbiome to find other microbes that naturally inhabit the human body and may influence health and disease.
Skov adds: «I fear that if we don't get antibiotic use in livestock under control, then new, more virulent strains of livestock - associated MRSA will emerge that pose a much greater threat to human health than what we are currently facing.»
Yet another problem is that much of what scientists think they know about human health comes from animal studies.
«Physically, pigs are much closer to the size and scale of humans than other animals, and they respond to health threats similarly.
Nutrient pollution in bodies of water — too much nitrogen or phosphorous, for example — harms human health and the economy.
Too much of the essential element is as dangerous as too little, either case adversely affecting health in animals from humans to mice to fruit flies.
«Teeth are usually really well - preserved and can tell you so much about diet and health, in addition to genetic relationships and social structure,» says Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies the size and shape of teeth as part of her work in Çatalhöyük's human remains lab.
«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.
One study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City looked at 373 sites across India, the Philippines and Indonesia, and calculated how much damage elevated levels of lead, chromium and other chemicals imparted to human health.
As Elizabeth Grossman reveals in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the air, water, and soil.
This photograph, showing plastic fragments collected in just an hour at a cove near Gloucester, Mass., hints at a lesser - known but equally disturbing story: much smaller bits of plastic that are accumulating in oceans all over the world can potentially harm marine life and possibly even human health.
The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.
The Trump administration could slash $ 5.8 billion from the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), yet still fund at least as much research by eliminating overhead payments to universities and research institutions, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price told lawmakers this week.
For nearly a decade, the center had been outsourcing much of its work to SI, which assessed health risks and drafted reviews for 21 chemicals that the center was reviewing for their possible impact on human reproductive health.
The Trump administration could slash $ 5.8 billion from the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), yet still fund as least as much research by eliminating overhead payments to universities and research institutions, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price told lawmakers today.
He said Hunt's study is of «limited relevance to human health» and that the doses used were much higher than actual human exposure.
The field of stem cell biology has made major and continuing progress over the last few years towards achieving its much heralded aim of impacting human health.
On Aug. 3, the scientific article in Nature finally gave us some facts about the much - hyped experiments that involved editing the genomes of human embryos at the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at Oregon Health and Science University.
Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).
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