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Working with local chapters, PCA America provides leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, consider increasing bullying prevention efforts at your school by participating in No Name Calling Week, January 19 - 23.

RFK Project SEATBELT (Safe Environments Achieved Through Bullying prevention, Engagement, Leadership and Teaching respect; projectseatbelt.org) was designed by Deborah Temkin, who previously led the White House bullying prevention efforts at the U.S. Department of Education.

The findings, which appear online in the journal Heart Failure, underscore the importance of targeting prevention efforts at the earliest HF stages to avoid death.

Not exact matches

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

«Medicare is slowly but surely turning its efforts to prevention at a much bigger scale,» said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada.

SEOUL (Reuters)- Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

If we think, however, that having solved the problem of cooperative effort at the bottom of the cliff we also have solved it at the top — in prevention — we are greatly mistaken.

SUICIDE rates among young Australians are sitting at an alarming level despite efforts by mental health organisations and governments to develop prevention strategies.

Through federal and state legislative efforts Mr. Klaas promotes prevention programs for at - risk youth, stronger sentencing for violent criminals and governmental accountability and responsibility.

Fulfilling Fatherhood highlights the need for more understanding of the needs of HIV positive people and for more emphasis on «positive prevention», an essential ingredient in linking efforts aimed at HIV prevention and care.

Prevention of mother - to - child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV has been at the forefront of global HIV prevention efforts since 1998, following the success of the short - course zidovudine and single - dose nevirapine clinical trials in reducing transmission.

Yet, when we, as a culture, look at «prevention» of breast cancer, efforts are typically focused on secondary prevention — early detection.

A package of 14 measures to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, expected to pass the Senate yesterday and today, focuses on law enforcement efforts, following several years of legislation aimed more at prevention and treatment.

Itegboje said Nigeria had consistently been in the vanguard of supporting and participating in international efforts at conflict - prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace both sub-regionally, regionally and globally.

According to the acting Director of Technical Services at the Ghana AIDS Commission, Mr Cosmos Ohene - Adjei, the low patronage of condoms in the country was worrying in relation to efforts at ensuring the prevention of new cases of HIV...

COMBAT heroin, opioid and substance abuse crisis with more funding at local and county level for proven prevention programs, education efforts for teens, parents and school and medical professionals.

«Losing Navarro at this critical time will hamper the countless efforts to reduce crime, lose momentum in implementing strategic crime prevention initiatives and damage already repaired police - community relations,» reads a letter sent to the department from dozens of community residents.

ALBANY - A package of 14 measures to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, expected to pass the Senate Tuesday and Wednesday, focuses on law enforcement efforts, following several years of legislation aimed more at prevention and treatment.

After the hearing, Senator Serino issued a statement, saying that the health department efforts so far have fallen short and that «more is needed from our partners at the State and Federal levels» for research, prevention and to develop more effective testing and treatment options.

In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Education, Hajiya Rafa'atu Hammani, said the state was ready to support efforts at curbing drug abuse among students and stressed that all school principals would be properly trained on prevention measures.

In addition to pollution prevention, we need to redouble our efforts at using our water supply more efficiently — whether by eliminating waste or by recycling and re-use where appropriate.

Although the number of playground injuries is decreasingfrom 187,000 in 1992 to 98,000 in 1997Phelan hopes that prevention efforts aimed at middle - school - age children can reduce the number even further.

The study was designed to inform future HIV prevention efforts in the US that aim at utilizing this promising approach.

In this special theme issue of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, food and nutrition practitioners and other health professionals take an in - depth look at the relationship between nutrition, obesity, and cancer prevention, treatment, and survival and identify research gaps for future prevention research efforts.

For cancers in which only a small percentage of mutations are due to random DNA replication errors, by contrast, primary prevention efforts — those aimed at minimizing harmful environmental exposures — will continue to be the most effective way to reduce cancer deaths, the researchers said.

«The application of big data methods to target soldiers at high risk of rare but important outcomes like suicide is an exciting development because it gives us a way forward in focusing prevention efforts on an ongoing basis,» said Robert Ursano, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an Army STARRS Principal Investigator.

A $ 1.6 million effort to study the complex mechanisms of the disease and identify existing drugs that might be able to be used for Alzheimer's treatment or prevention, led by Eric Schadt of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

But the report notes that if treatment and prevention efforts remain at 2013 levels, the epidemic will continue to grow and an estimated 41.5 million people will be living with HIV in 2030.

A new global report on the HIV / AIDS epidemic spotlights success in both prevention and treatment efforts, but also stresses that countries must dramatically ramp up both if the world hopes to meet the ambitious goals agreed upon last year at a special session of the United Nations.

It is critical to continue and accelerate a robust research effort to develop an HIV vaccine that is at least moderately effective, while also aggressively scaling up the implementation of current treatment and prevention tools, Dr. Fauci concludes.

Such methods can help the VHA to target suicide prevention efforts for patients at high risk, and may have more wide - ranging benefits.

«As the largest health care provider in the U.S., VA has the responsibility to continuously examine how our extensive suicide prevention efforts are working, and to identify critical opportunities for improvement in service to our nation's Veterans,» said Dr. Caitlin Thompson, Deputy Director for Suicide Prevention for VA. «This collaborative effort with NIMH provides us with unprecedented information that will allow us to design and implement innovative strategies on how to assess and care for those Veterans who may be at high risk for suicide.

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center encompasses preclinical and clinical research, treatment, prevention, and education efforts in cancer.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Sanford Research has sought to establish a core of scientists that are studying disease at a fundamental level with the expectation that these current efforts will pay off in the future by advancing disease therapy and prevention.

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital encompasses pre-clinical and clinical research, treatment, prevention and education efforts in cancer.

Ernest Hawk, vice president and head of the division of cancer prevention and population science at MD Anderson Cancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancers. . .

Since efforts to save even one human life are worthwhile and critical, these same authorities, both existing and newly elected, should play a proactive role in the prevention of future suicidal acts by better assessing the needs of the population and of individuals at high risk for suicide.»

It will provide crucial financial support for efforts aimed at not only catalyzing biomedical discoveries, but also ensuring that those advances produce tangible health benefits through new modes of diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

Although bullying prevention efforts tend to focus on middle schools and high schools, bullying behavior begins at much younger ages.

Blanco, who wrote a book detailing her harsh treatment at the hands of school bullies, talked about her current bullying - prevention efforts.

Solutions to the Dropout Crisis airs on the second Tuesday of every month at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, covering a variety of topics related to dropout prevention efforts.

Joanna Fox of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University reviews research related to community partnerships that support keeping students in school and on track to graduation, provided snapshots of community and non-profit organizations dropout prevention efforts, and shares success stories of a few schools and districts — Dothan City Schools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City Schools.

Like Gary Mendell, Stacie Mathewson has also turned personal tragedy at the hands of addiction into a significant national effort to improve prevention science, practice and policy.

This effort, supported by funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation, is allowing the community to use data to identify where problems are and use a three - tiered approach to provide universal chronic absence prevention for all students, more intensive supports for at - risk students, and personalized, targeted supports for the highest risk students.

Solutions to the Dropout Crisis airs on the second Tuesday of every month at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and covers a variety of topics related to dropout prevention efforts.

Funding to support health education efforts aimed at the prevention and reduction of tobacco use by youth