Sentences with phrase «public about these health risks»

(b) What evidence is there that tobacco companies conspired to deliberately mislead the public about the health risks of smoking?

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«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals polHealth Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals polhealth risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies.

A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Pennsylvania Departments of Public Health and Education must develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students, parents, and coaches about concussions, the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), including the risks of continuing to play or practice after a concussion or TBI.

In 2010, Health Canada, the country's federal department of public health, issued a warning about these necklaces, citing the risk of strangulHealth Canada, the country's federal department of public health, issued a warning about these necklaces, citing the risk of strangulhealth, issued a warning about these necklaces, citing the risk of strangulation.

The mass media have a powerful impact on public perceptions of health issues.1 Headline health scares have a measurable effect on behaviour, and routine coverage influences people's assessments of personal risk, utilisation of health services, and views on public policy.2 - 7 The media not only provide information but also help to create or reinforce ideas about what is common sense or normal.

By denying parents information on best practices about ways they can reduce risks while bedsharing in addition to encouraging them not to bedshare, the public health community potentially shares responsibility for the continued SIDS cases in bedsharing.

Also check out this article, which talks about how they risk public health in order to get their products in the hands of vulnerable young mothers and turn a profit.

She was successfully treated but the sleep issues and separation anxiety stayed around for a while... We live in a state of Australia that promotes a very strong public health message about the risks of co-sleeping, which is particularly disseminated through its maternal - child health nurses.

The guilt issue is most pronounced with the formulabreastfeeding debate, where health professionals and public health bodies hesitate to give mothers accurate information about formula risks (with a lot of «support» from formula companies), so they won't feel «guilty» if they decide to formula feed.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

Their aim is to ensure that food produced or sold in the UK is safe to eat, consumers have the information they need to make informed choices about where and what they eat, and that regulation and enforcement is risk - based and focused on improving public health.

The state health department has come under intense criticism for its handling of the unfolding Hoosick Falls crisis, including the distribution late last year that also downplayed risks of PFOA exposure after federal regulators pushed for a wider public alarm about the situation.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and in recognition the Chautauqua County public health director is encouraging all women to talk to their health care providers about breast cancer screening and their personal risk for the... [Read more...]

New analysis shows the number of diesel cars on London's roads has increased by over 170,000 since 2012, despite serious public health warnings about the risks of cancer and air pollution.

«It's extremely worrying that the UK public are not being given independent, honest information about the health risks associated with drinking.

Still, he said there are enough uncertainties about the potential risks to public health and the environment to warrant not moving ahead.

The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

ALBANY — A long - awaited study released by the Cuomo administration on Wednesday determined several «red flags» about hydraulic fracturing that could pose «significant public health risks,» officials said at a public meeting of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet.

The study from the University of Bristol comes on the back of public health warnings issued earlier this year by scientists who voiced concerns about the increased risk of psychosis for vulnerable people who use the drug.

Research has soundly disproved the alleged connection, yet fears about vaccines continue to be a major risk to public health.

«The lifetime risk of high blood pressure in the US is about 80 percent,» says the study's senior author Richard Cooper, professor and chairman of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Medical School, who collaborated with Bress.

In the growing debate about research that has done precisely that, a key question is whether the public - health benefits of the work outweigh the risks of a potential pandemic if the virus escaped from the lab.

«We do not have enough information on hand to be able to draw good solid conclusions about whether this is a public health risk as a whole.»

«The public health message about the link between cannabis and psychosis has been a difficult one to communicate, but the evidence still points to the benefits of regulations that seek to advise on the greatest potential health risks, which currently arise due to tobacco use.»

«But there's growing evidence that the combination of foods in your diet impacts your disease risk more than any single nutrient, so we think our central finding that healthier diets cost about $ 1.50 more has the most public health relevance.»

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

Professor Peter Kraft at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA, says: «Given the size of these studies, we expected that we would find a lot of new breast cancer risk variants, but the studies tells us a lot more about which genes are involved, revealing many previously unsuspected genes and genetic mechanisms underlying breast carcinogenesis.

But Burke, who now teaches at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, remains concerned about the move, in light of previous actions by Pruitt that he thinks have weakened EPA's Scientific Advisory Board and put the independence of the agency's chemical assessment program at risk.

«These findings are important because, while both obesity and heart failure are major public health problems in the U.S., little has been known about whether substantial weight loss would decrease the risk of heart - failure - related adverse events.»

At a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health forum on diet and health, Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department, talked about benefits and risks associated with antioxidant suppleHealth forum on diet and health, Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department, talked about benefits and risks associated with antioxidant supplehealth, Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department, talked about benefits and risks associated with antioxidant supplements.

At its core, the RA profession facilitates the collection, analysis, and communication about the risks and benefits of health products to regulatory agencies, medical care systems, and the public.

Despite Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) messages that the water was safe, we fought to educate residents about severe public health risks.

High blood pressure is a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke and is also a significant public health burden, costing the United States about $ 110 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2015, according to American Heart Association estimates.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

For example, the Harvard School of Public Health talks about obtaining calcium from mainly beans and greens, and to limit milk and dairy products for various reason, including increase prostate cancer and to a lesser extent, ovarian cancer risk.

Thus, the public may receive mixed messages from health authorities and agencies about the risks of routine mercury exposures, depending on whether the exposure involves dentistry, seafood consumption or vaccines.

More recently (27 Oct 2014) Harvard School of Public Health issued a media release about a new meta - analysis which shows that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats reduces the risk of heart disease.

The American Medical Association does not currently recommend CRP testing for the general public, but if you are already at risk for heart disease, or are concerned about your cardiovascular health, it is another piece of the puzzle in revealing your overall heart risks

Dr. Walter Willett, the chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, also thought this was a reasonably done study, but he added it is difficult to make conclusions about the risk of heart disease from a study so small and short.

«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.

While there's still some content about mammograms on the site, «informational pages and factsheets about the disease, including symptoms, treatment, risk factors, and public no - or low - cost cancer screening programs, have been entirely removed and are no longer found elsewhere on the [Office on Women's Health] site,» according to the foundation's report.

Informational: NHTSA has taken the lead with a national effort to educate parents, caretakers, public health professionals and the general public about the risks associated with heatstroke, and will continue to need the support of partners to push out messages and host events to keep the issue in front of the public.

This release contains forward - looking information that involves substantial risks and uncertainties about the intention to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of a minority ownership stake in Pfizer's Animal Health business, including the anticipated timing of such a transaction and the potential benefits to Pfizer.

While Ebola fortunately is unlikely to become a global pandemic (due to Ebola's infection pathway, which requires direct contact with bodily fluids, and the risk - minimizing public health advances in many parts of the world), we can harness the concern from the global community about Ebola's potential spread to have a constructive dialogue about preventing future outbreaks.

Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.