Sentences with phrase «public health breakthroughs»

Media reports of public health breakthroughs made possible by big data have been largely oversold, according to a new study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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TORONTO, August 16, 2016 — Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

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Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

«It's not that you require a scientific breakthrough to solve these situations — in developed countries the knowledge and technical tools have been available to women for many, many years,» says Ana Langer, coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

Precisely this connect - the - dots method led to one of the most significant public - health breakthroughs of the past quarter century: In the early 1980s, epidemiologists studied the sexual and social connections among a group of gay men on both U.S. coasts who were developing fatal cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Tenth, using recent breakthroughs in medicine and public health, the expanded health systems in the poorest countries should be equipped to handle noncommunicable diseases that have long been neglected but are treatable at low cost: hypertension, cataracts and depression.

My health public policy advocacy actually began back in 2006 leading via grassroots the global recall of contact lens disinfection solutions (for bacterial, fungal, and parasite breakthrough) along with two other women.

History also teaches us the greatest advances in medicine have come from scientific breakthroughs, whether the discovery of antibiotics, or improved public health practices, vaccines for smallpox and polio and many other infectious diseases, antiretroviral drugs that can return AIDS patients to productive lives, pills that can control certain types of blood cancers, so many others.

Of all the points made by S&N, perhaps the most telling is in a follow - up post on the Breakthrough Institute blog: «Nearly every profession, from public health to business to law, has research studies, conferences, and peer - review journals dedicated to evaluating what's working and what's not.