Sentences with phrase «not public health researchers»

And Pruitt seems far more inclined to grant those exceptions to polluting industries, not public health researchers.

Not exact matches

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

Not only did the Harvard School of Public Health researchers find that frightening increase; that was when drinking cold liquids.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

Researchers were surprised by some of the numbers, but public health officials and elected officials weren't entirely shocked with the results.

«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

«Krokodil is a last resort for people who can't get heroin or other injected drugs,» says Russian public - health researcher Kirill Danishevskiy.

There are many advantages — for example, almost unlimited access to scientists and public health experts, who not only review and guide our work but also are mobilised to assist researchers in all parts of the world.

«Funders don't control the composition of the committee, and they don't meet with the committee,» says Harvard public - health researcher Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM vaccine - safety committee in question.

The word gap is not just an educational issue — it is one of the most important public health problems, the researchers said.

«The biggest source of morbidity and mortality in young people in industrialized countries isn't medical disease but problems with behavior and emotion,» says Ronald Dahl, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

The work highlights «a major public health issue,» says Jonathan Patz, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who not involved with the research.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

But Mark Kaplan, a public health researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, who was not involved in the study, cautions these programs «need to be done alongside other tpublic health researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, who was not involved in the study, cautions these programs «need to be done alongside other tPublic Affairs, who was not involved in the study, cautions these programs «need to be done alongside other things.

It's also possible that microfluidic dissection is simply not a good way to measure the effect of caloric restriction, says Rozalyn Anderson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison who studies aging and caloric restriction.

Brown cautions that this study does not address the question of how to optimize public health expenditures among various programs, but notes that other researchers have begun investigating the costs of foundational public health services at a county - wide level.

Still, researchers didn't pay serious attention to the problem for decades, after a massive public health crisis came to light in Bangladesh.

School of Public Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.»

A new study by public health researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that the severity of the problem within the state is not the most important predictor of whether states adopt new laws to restrict drunk driving — nor is the political makeup of the state government.

The researchers write that the findings of this study may have implications for clinical practice and public health, including that standards for vancomycin MIC most likely do not need to be lowered; routine differentiation of MIC values between 1mg / L and 2 mg / L appears unnecessary; and the use of alternative antistaphylococcal agents may not be required for S. aureus isolates with elevated but susceptible vancomycin MIC values.

May it serve as a warning not only to policymakers, but also to researchers, clinicians, peer reviewers, journal editors, and journalists of the need to consider the harm to scientific credibility and public health when dealing with studies funded by food companies with vested interests in the results — and to find better ways to fund such studies and to prevent, disclose and manage potentially conflicted interests,» writes Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., of New York University, in a related commentary.

The researchers hope that doctors and public health associations will tweak their messages to asthma sufferers so that they do not overreact to experiences that may be harmless.

Advocates for gun rights must accept that public - health researchers aren't the stooges of a sinister bureaucracy intent on seizing their guns.

«Some of the difference in costs may be due to younger women being diagnosed at a higher stage of disease,» said Stacie Dusetzina, a pharmacy and public health researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who wasn't involved in the study.

The April 2009 H1N1 outbreak at a Queens, New York, high school was widespread but did not cause severe disease, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

At least they didn't until researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass., mined some dietary information on 9 - to 14 - year - old U.S. girls.

«Cardiologists do not talk regularly about sleep issues with their patients,» says lead researcher Lars Erik Laugsand, MD, an internist in the public health department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim.

In a 2008 study, Esther Lopez - Garcia, PhD, a researcher in the department of preventive medicine and public health at the Autonomous University of Madrid, in Spain, found that coffee drinkers had a slightly lower risk of death from all causes than people who did nt drink coffee.

This finding suggests that government programs designed to promote marriage, such as the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative and others like it that emerged from the 1996 welfare - reform legislation, aren't likely to improve public health, the researchers say.

Though the food industry now sells $ 16 billion annually to the unsuspecting public of «gluten free» junk food, researchers now aren't sure the gluten itself is what's causing health problems.

** Researchers from The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School found that girls who regularly consume sugary beverages are more likely to develop early menstruation than girls who do not consume sugary drinks.

In fact, a new report from researchers of the University of Minnesota suggests that the flu vaccine is not as effective as public health messaging suggests.

«In our study, we found people who drank three to five cups of coffee per day had about a 15 percent lower [risk of premature] mortality compared to people who didn't drink coffee,» says one of the study authors, nutrition researcher Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health.

But having recently seen a doctor or getting tested for another sexually transmitted disease did not increase the likelihood that gay or bisexual men knew about the preventive drug, the researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found.

The present authors have all been subject to such attacks, whose similarity is notable because the authors» research spans a broad range of topics and disciplines: The first author has investigated the psychological variables underlying the acceptance or rejection of scientific findings; the second author is a paleoclimatologist who has shown that current global temperatures are likely unprecedented during the last 1,000 years or more; the third and fourth authors are public - health researchers who have investigated the attitudes of teenagers and young adults towards smoking and evaluated a range of tobacco control interventions; and the fifth author has established that human memory is not only fallible but subject to very large and systematic distortions.

I wasn't surprised to learn that the American Association of Publishers had sent a letter [PDF] to then President - elect Obama in December opposing the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires any NIH - funded researchers to deposit a copy of what they have discovered and published in a publicly accessible archive.

The data used by researchers, which was provided by the National Center for Health Statistics, considers fatalities not just to drivers, but also to pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit passengers.

As medical and public health researchers we do not want to be used by the government as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

Medical and public health researchers who work day in and day out to cure disease and keep us healthy should not be used as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

But when FrameWorks researchers investigated public thinking on this topic, they found that the public tended to assume that it didn't exist, that it was a matter of controlling one's emotions through willpower, or that its biological components meant that there's nothing that can be done to improve children's mental health.

The study did not directly compare IUDs with emergency contraception pills, but other studies of women taking the pills have shown that 1.4 to 3 percent become pregnant, said study researcher Kelly Cleland, a public health researcher at Princeton University.

When communities and researchers seek solutions to the same health problems, negotiating this interdependence into a research partnership can help community researchers feel like they are «doing meaningful public health work, not just conducting research».26 Ultimately, PR relies on forming the right partnerships.27 The relational ethics of the TATS project were negotiated through pre-existing trust between individuals from partner organisations and the individual relationships that developed during the project.

2020 Mom has been convening researchers and public and private change agents in California to «get to the bottom of why» women aren't been screened and treated and setting forth a new path for hospitals, health insurers, and doctors.