Sentences with phrase «public health challenges in»

February 6, 2004 Gene encoding FLAP also confers risk for stroke; discovery pinpoints common biological mechanism underlying two of the world's biggest public health challenges In a paper published in the online edition of Nature Genetics, a deCODE - led team of...

Reykjavik, ICELAND and Basel, SWITZERLAND, September 11, 2001 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq / Nasdaq Europe: DCGN) and Roche today announced that deCODE scientists have mapped genes contributing to two of the biggest public health challenges in the developed world: obesity...

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (ST - Ds) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (S - TDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

Childhood asthma is a serious public health challenge in Québec and throughout the world.

Hypertension is a significant and growing public health challenge in the United States, affecting about 30 percent of adults 18 and older — and the numbers have been growing, according to the CDC.

The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more

Not exact matches

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

Enough teenagers have engaged in the Tide Pod challenge that it's warranted public health scrutiny.

This is one of the major mental health challenges of the 1960's (For a graphic description of the problem of aftercare and examples of what is being done in scattered places, sec «Mental Aftercare: Assignment for the Sixties» by Emma Harrison, Public Affairs Pamphlet # 318.

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.

Free and added sugars are seen as such a challenge that Public Health England has produced a programme based around reducing their presence in the publicPublic Health England has produced a programme based around reducing their presence in the publicpublic diet.

«Our industry is acutely aware of its responsibilities,» she comments in the Food and Drink Federation report Delivering Healthy Growth, «whether tackling public health issues such as malnutrition or deficiency of certain nutrients in vulnerable groups or the growing challenge of obesity, or enabling consumers to make informed choices from a range of products than match modern lifestyles.

Skills and training continues to be a major focus for the food and drink sector, in recognition of the important role that the next generation of food scientists and technicians will play in driving innovation and meeting the key challenges of nutrition and public health.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease preveHealth Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth and disease prevention.

Created as part of «Healthy Places,» a partnership between the city's public health department and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, the challenge reinvigorates and extends what has been a consistent movement toward healthy vending.

And ever since then I've passionate about helping moms overcome their breastfeeding challenges and I've been working in public health for the past nine years as a lactation consultant and a dietitian.

The result is that in the UK we have a major public health challenge that is being inadequately addressed with policy making that is neither consistent, nor comprehensive, nor integrated across departments.

According to the DoH, smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death in England, accounting for more than 80,000 premature deaths each year and tobacco use is one of the most significant public health challenges.

At the 3:28 - minute mark in the video that appears below, Gillibrand expressed disappointment that today's oral arguments on challenges to the health care reform law — Day One of what will be a three - day marathon — are not widely viewable by the general public.

De Blasio and McCray announced that Confer, 35, will head the 54 - program initiative, launched in 2015 to tackle mental health as a public health challenge and to fight the stigma associated with it.

Former Iowa Department of Public Health Director Mariannette Miller - Meeks, the GOP nominee to challenge Rep. Dave Loebsack, D - Iowa, in the Hawkeye State's 2nd District.

In August, the Knight Foundation announced a health innovation challenge, with the winners splitting $ 2 million in prizes for proposing the best ways to use open data related to public healtIn August, the Knight Foundation announced a health innovation challenge, with the winners splitting $ 2 million in prizes for proposing the best ways to use open data related to public healtin prizes for proposing the best ways to use open data related to public health.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

In today's NY Post, I challenge Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott's decision to bypass affirmative parental consent in launching the Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive (Sexual) Health pilot program which distributes to contraceptives and birth control to minor adolescents at 14 public... Continue readingIn today's NY Post, I challenge Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott's decision to bypass affirmative parental consent in launching the Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive (Sexual) Health pilot program which distributes to contraceptives and birth control to minor adolescents at 14 public... Continue readingin launching the Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive (Sexual) Health pilot program which distributes to contraceptives and birth control to minor adolescents at 14 public... Continue reading →

July 25 — TAPCo Public School of the Arts is hosting a ribbon cutting unveiling a beautiful 4,000 sq. ft. mural highlighting the diversity and challenges faced by the mental health community in the Bronx, 5:30 pm.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

A review of Dr. Shah's writings and work in a wide - ranging number of public health and medical issues challenging America today, illustrate his preparedness for being the Commissioner of Health for New York State.&health and medical issues challenging America today, illustrate his preparedness for being the Commissioner of Health for New York State.&Health for New York State.»

They have been used to challenge Slovakia's public health system, and Argentina's energy price freeze in the midst of an economic meltdown.

CSEA also pointed out the Empire Center's hypocrisy in challenging public employee health care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child Healthhealth care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child HealthHealth Plus and Child HealthHealth Plus.

In a letter to the Welsh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee, the Chief Executive of NHS Wales Dr Andrew Goodall said that the health board needed support to ensure it was able to address the challenges it faces.

«Obesity remains a challenging public health issue in New York State, and today we are taking new steps to help fight this epidemic,» Governor Cuomo said.

«This was a timely symposium for Cuban and U.S. scientists to exchange and share experiences on public health challenges facing both countries, the world and the region of the Americas in particular,» said Marga Gual Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidencIn a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidencin the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidence.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

The article suggests that the principle remaining challenges lie mostly in the realm of public policy and public health — a fact with obvious implications for scientists considering careers helping to eradicate AIDS.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

«The mainstream media — in print and online — did little to report on health risks to the general population or to challenge the narratives of public officials and their experts,» Pascale said.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

Science and technology will be critical in our efforts to tackle the most urgent societal challenges, be it climate change, food security, or public health.

«Given the challenges of lowering salt in the American diet, we need a public health approach aimed at making it possible for consumers to

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challenge.

There is great evidence that this is one of the big challenges in public health, but the actionable response has not been impressive or systematic.

In short, we have arrived at a point where the challenges of sustainable development — including public health, infrastructure, energy and national security — require changes not only to policy but also to basic public management systems.

«My personal view is that there is a major public health challenge coming down the road in terms of difficulties with hearing.»

Five years ago, the small community that studies dengue began discussing challenge trials, which made some people nervous, says Anna Durbin of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

The remaining few infections are often in the most rural or challenging spots — ongoing conflict between Islamic militants and counterterrorism forces in Mali, for example, has made it difficult for public health advocates to safely work in the area.