Sentences with phrase «often public health officials»

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All too often, though, our elected officials respond to public health crises like gun violence and firearm - related deaths not with action — but with deflective statements that inevitably include their thoughts and prayers.

While it is true that the SUPPORT infants got treatments within the range of normal care, they were put into high - or low - oxygenation groups, while doctors in neonatal care units often change oxygenation levels in response to a variety of signs and symptoms, said Michael Carome, Public Citizen's director of health research and a former OHRP official.

Researchers and public health officials have struggled to explain the resurgence of whooping cough in the United States since the late 1970s, and the suspected shortcomings of the current generation of vaccines are often blamed.

Last year, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona testified to Congress that top Bush administration officials often dismissed global warming as a «liberal cause» and sought to play down public health reports out of political considerations.