Sentences with phrase «other health agencies»

Remember that most of these people were probably making some attempt to control fat intake before the study, or were at least used to the idea that fat is «bad» (thanks largely to the USDA, FDA, and other health agencies).

Applications will be reviewed by subject matter experts at NIH and other health agencies to see if «they show a reasonable potential to meet the statutory goals,» says NIH's Jo Anne Goodnight, who oversees NIH's small - business research grants.

By doing so, HealthMap provides a glimpse of potential disease outbreaks in local pockets, often before government and other health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) realize they are threats.

During this year's World Breast - feeding Week, WHO and other health agencies are highlighting 10 steps to successful breast - feeding.

Not exact matches

Price, who has presented his own replacement plan, is now turning to a job of managing a massive agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and other programs, and will be tasked with implementing what Congress ultimately sends him, Childs said.

These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and other areas.

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already started work with other public health agencies on next year's flu vaccine, according to Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, in the wake of the disastrous flu season currently gripping the U.S..

Theranos, once valued at $ 9 billion, is also being investigated by other federal and state agencies and was accused in a suit filed in May of endangering customer health through «massive failures» that misrepresented test results, according to court papers.

Because not only is she begging the Wall Street Journal and other papers to come after her and start scrutinizing even more, she's opening it up to health agencies, like the FDA and other regulators, to be extra careful when they're examining the company.»

But Congress has failed to provide the IRS with any funds to implement health reform, forcing the agency to divert funds from other areas, such as IT.

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

The trail of emails and letters going back to Oct. 5 include details of how the Public Service Agency, Tarras and others were heavily involved in the process that led to the decision to fire the health ministry employees in 2012.

Other economic actors have their own federal granting agencies, such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Total federal government expenses consist of four major components: major transfers to persons (old age security, employment insurance benefits and children's benefits); major transfers to other levels of government (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs, and Gas Tax Fund), direct program expenses (other transfers, Crown corporation expenses, and departmental and agency operating and capital expenses) and public debt charges.

As such a center works its way into the lives and needs of disadvantaged peoples, however, more and more expert persons are brought into the picture in some capacity — health center personnel, social agency workers, persons who can find jobs, vocational training teachers, and many others.

Beverage alcohol is an important topic for health education in homes, schools, churches, and other social agencies.

Other community groups, such as libraries, professional organizations, public health and safety agencies, the colleges and churches — all could contribute to helping local stations focus much more on their educational obligation to the community.

The centers were designed for several purposes: to admit emergency patients and help them for a brief period, discharging them if improved and sending them to hospitals if extended care was called for; to provide out - patient treatment to individuals and families; to serve as a coordinating or focal channel for many kinds of problems, referring clients to other agencies when indicated; and above all to take mental health services into the community more and more.

In this area of law, prosecutors work closely with experts in this field as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which includes law enforcement, social services, child advocacy centers, medical and mental health providers, the school system and many other partner agencies.

o Ensure coordination and access to available data cross border documentation systems administered across other agencies including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)'s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) phytosanitary certificates.

However, other authors have voiced concerns about consumption of artificial sweeteners, because they may promote an appetite for sweet things, they harm bone and dental health, and their long term safety profile is not precisely clear.55 However, the European Food Safety Agency recently concluded that aspartame, the most common artificial sweetener, is safe at present consumption levels.56 The shift to milk consumption as sugar sweetened drink consumption falls might be expected.

NSW Health Authority Chief Executive Officer, Lisa Szabo, said it is working with Entyce, NSW Health and other government agencies to investigate the situation.

As the voice of the flexible packaging industry, FPA works with regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration to share industry positions and minimize regulatory burden on the flexible packaging industry.

The Wellness Agency ® works with boutique hotels, corporate hotel chains, resort spas and other destinations and hospitality businesses that have a genuine interest in offering sustainable, integrative wellness programs & retreats but don't have the in - house expertise to develop and facilitate high - quality, popular, profitable wellness programs and to successfully market them to a continuously growing audience of health - conscious consumers and wellness travelers.

Super Safety Saturday is a family - friendly event where first responder agencies join with other health, wellness and safety organizations and businesses to showcase the rich resources and services we have to keep our community safe and healthy.

This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.

In 1994, the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), in partnership with a bunch of other agencies and organizations, announced what was then known as the Back to Sleep Campaign, which is now called Safe to Sleep.

EHS is the principal agency for the advertising, sponsorship, email, and mobile opportunities of more than 75 of the leading healthcare professional societies, associations, and media companies; consumer health sites; and other quality digital partners in the pharmaceutical / healthcare vertical.

Feedback from other health professionals (an obstetrician who was conducting parent education in a private capacity and an educator with a non-government agency) was also included.

The world health organizational and multiple other pediatric agencies does not reccomend introducing solids until 6 months.

Partner agencies in the Elm City include All Our Kin, the New Haven Health Department, New Reach (formerly New Haven Home Recovery) and Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), among many others.

«The weight of scientific evidence, as assessed by Health Canada and other agencies around the world, provides reassurance that consumers can continue to safely use products made from bisphenol A,» said Steven G. Hentges of the American Chemistry Council's Polycarbonate / BPA Global Group.

Like all other U.S. certification boards for health care professionals, the IBLCE operates under the direction of the U.S. National Commission for Certifying Agencies and maintains rigorous professional standards.

The Atlanta - based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that collects data on a range of other health markers, only started tracking breastfeeding statistics in 1994.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

For all cases, we attend a child death review and this is attended not only by police, but by the family doctor, midwives / health visitors who dealt with the family, social services and various other agencies.

Leading sexual and reproductive health organisations, Marie Stopes international (MSI), is teaming up with The Guardian newspaper and seven other development agencies (NGOs) to launch a unique journalism competition this week.

At a minimum, each must have the full panoply of constitutionally mandated agencies and other government departments — Prison Service, Division of Health Services, Division of Social Welfare, etc..

A FRED - like website would be a boon for the state comptroller, Division of the Budget, State Health Department, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Labor, and Independent Budget Office, among other data intensive agencies.

New Yorkers - both individuals and businesses - that purchase health insurance currently pay more than $ 3.1 billion in health taxes through the Covered Lives Assessment; the (HCRA) hospital services surcharge; the Insurance Department Section 332 industry - wide assessments that fund Department operations and are also suballocated to other agencies and programs; and the 1.75 percent premium tax.

So, step 2 is to vote in person or by mail, by supplying one of the following -LRB-(E) credit or debit card; (G) student identification card; (H) health club identification card; (I) insurance plan identification card) and one of the following -LRB-(A) utility bill; (B) bank statement; (C) government check; (O) identification documents issued by governmental disability agencies; (P) identification documents issued by government homeless shelters and other government temporary or transitional facilities)

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

We will work with patient advocacy groups, health and social care organisations, inspection agencies, commissioning groups and other key stakeholders to achieve this.

«Sampson's representatives made similar calls to other groups that depend on the state for funding.Sampson's sister, Yvette Henriquez, has a 20 % stake in the proposed home care agency, Shining Star Home Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&health agency, or CHHA.»

Witnesses for the prosecution repeatedly testified that it was Silver who had the final say on how money from the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) was spent, and that other agencies reviewed those grants only to make sure the paperwork was in order.

Mr. Schneider said the police department will work with other local agencies, advocacy organizations and mental health experts to determine how to strengthen the county's overall approach in dealing with over 1,000 sex offenders.

Kenneth Adams, president of Empire State Development, New York's primary business - aid agency, said governments aren't forgoing funds they now use to pay for police, education, health care and other services because the zone tenants and employees are generally new to the state.

«The mission of our agency is to support the health and wellness of individuals, families and communities by focusing on solutions to alcohol and other drug misuse, addiction, and unhealthy behaviors.