Sentences with phrase «new public health threat»

Southern Research scientists joined the front lines in the battle against HIV / AIDS in 1986, not long after the deadly viral infection emerged as a terrifying new public health threat in -LSB-...]

Cuomo was busy Thursday outlining an extensive state response to a new public health threat, the Zika virus.

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A new study revealed that boosting worker wages could have a big impact on the public health threat.

New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

The state is unveiling a new $ 12.5 million mitigation plan for a former factory Superfund site in West Islip that is once again considered a «significant threat to the public health or environment» after additional contaminants were discovered there last year.

But as Bassett sees it, her job is as much about confronting the «enduring disparities» that characterize public health in New York City as it is about responding to sudden threats.

Synthetic marijuana is dangerous and poses a very real public health threat to New Yorkers, their families and children.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

But it was another frightening viral outbreak — the West Africa Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 — that was never far from his mind as he spoke about this new threat to international public health.

The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.

Meanwhile, New York City is looking into possible swine flu cases, and the WHO has decided not to raise its pandemic threat level, although it did call the situation a «public health emergency of international concern.»

According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis inHealth Organization, antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis inhealth threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis in 2013.

Today disease - causing bacteria have adapted to antibiotics faster than scientists can generate new drugs to kill them, creating a serious global public - health threat.

A new Journal of Internal Medicine study describes an innovative program to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health threat in Iceland.

Eventually, the effort might lead to a way to predict new pathogens before they emerge as public health threats.

Miller - Travis said the federal grants enable hundreds of communities to transform threats to their public health, natural resources and economy into parks and other recreational uses, housing and new businesses.

Fifteen months after the 1999 outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City, which sickened 62 mostly elderly people and killed seven, scientists are still hard pressed to predict how abundant the virus will eventually become or how serious a public health threat it will pose.

«Our synthetic biology pipeline for rapid sensor design and prototyping has tremendous potential for application for the Zika virus and other public health threats, enabling us to rapidly develop new diagnostics when and where they are needed most.»

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have documented the accuracy of three new tests for more rapidly diagnosing drug - resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB), which are much harder and more expensive to treat and which, experts say, represent a major threat to global public health.

New genome sequencing technologies provide insight into emerging artemisinin - resistance and a novel way to track this public health threat

(Granted, neither seems to have anything new to bring to the conversation if their recent attempts — Jessup in a 2012 paper describing free - roaming cats as «a significant public health threat,» and Barrows in his contribution to the 2012 book Nature Wars — are any indication.

In fact, the purpose of New York's Animal Population Control Program Fund, as written into law, is to «reduce the population of unwanted and stray dogs and cats thereby reducing incidence of euthanasia and potential threats to public health and safety posed by the large population of these animals.»

Updated, Nov. 19, 4:00 p.m. I've written about the challenges and opportunities in visualizing diffuse public health threats in new ways.

Promote workforce development by helping to ensure the training of a new generation of competent, experienced public health staff to respond to the health threats posed by climate change.

Over the last few years, Bryce has been bashing wind energy in the pages of the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and other publications, charging that wind turbines are, among other things, ugly, noisy and a threat to public health.

Climate change is a major public health threat, already making existing problems like asthma, exposure to extreme heat, food poisoning, and infectious disease more severe, and posing new risks from climate change - related disasters, including death or injury.

Furthermore, the budget slashes funding for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program's inland oil spill preparedness program by 80 percent, and cuts another $ 11 million from BLM as the agency aims to limit new cleanup efforts at abandoned coal mines, promising to remediate only the highest threats to clean water and public health.

New video highlights impacts to aquatic life and public health, calls on clothing industry to solve problem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 MEDIA CONTACT: Elisa Ringholm, [phone], [email protected] CALIFORNIA 3/1/17 — A new movie from a California - based nonprofit is putting pressure on the clothing industry to address a major emerging threat to aquatic liNew video highlights impacts to aquatic life and public health, calls on clothing industry to solve problem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 MEDIA CONTACT: Elisa Ringholm, [phone], [email protected] CALIFORNIA 3/1/17 — A new movie from a California - based nonprofit is putting pressure on the clothing industry to address a major emerging threat to aquatic linew movie from a California - based nonprofit is putting pressure on the clothing industry to address a major emerging threat to aquatic life.

The new § 164.512 includes paragraphs on: Uses and disclosures required by law; uses and disclosures for public health activities; disclosures about victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; uses and disclosures for health oversight activities; disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings; disclosures for law enforcement purposes; uses and disclosures about decedents; uses and disclosures for cadaveric donation of organs, eyes, or tissues; uses and disclosures for research purposes; uses and disclosures to avert a serious threat to health or safety (which we had called «emergency circumstances» in the NPRM); uses and disclosures for specialized government functions (referred to as «specialized classes» in the NPRM); and disclosures to comply with workers» compensation laws.

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