Sentences with phrase «public health groups»

Represented leading public health group in legislation to give the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco products.

The Faculty of Public Health and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Warner.

The link between sugar and chronic diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes is well established, but even though many public health groups recommend limiting sugar intake, they differ widely on the recommended daily limits.

The Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids and other public health groups recently urged the Justice Department to recuse any lawyers who represented tobacco companies from any tobacco - related litigation while serving in the government, specifically mentioning Mr. Readler and Noel Francisco, the nominee for Solicitor General, who long represented R.J. Reynolds in tobacco litigation while at Jones Day.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, when public health groups take special pains to promote screening for cancer of the rectum and colon.

Today's report by the British Heart Foundation and other public health groups explained the process in detail:

The NCE is grounded in current evidence - based recommendations by important public health groups such as the Center for Disease Control or National Institutes of Health.

Journalists don't cal anti-vaxxer groups public health groups — why do they call Food and Water Watch an «environmental group»?

According to a 2008 analysis by a separate Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health group, 21 percent of deaths in children younger than five are attributable to malnutrition worldwide.

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

Public health groups take a page from business to understand the developing world's weak demand for drugs and vaccines

The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, the IOM, the CDC and other public health groups have identified schools as a crucial setting in which to improve children's diets.

Barack Obama's administration has pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

Two years ago we got together with government, industry and public health groups to develop a simpler system.

Some of the most successful health programs have been developed in tri-partite collaboration between government, public health groups and industry.

«From previous experience, the most successful health programs have been developed in tri-partite collaboration between government, public health groups and industry.»

We continue to keep our door open for any NGO or public health group that wants to work productively with the beverage industry in tackling obesity.

She joined the University in 2011, after finishing a secondment to the Public Health Group in London as regional Infant Feeding Coordinator.

This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and public health groups has taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.

The U.S. Surgeon General, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control - just about every medical and public health group has come out in support of breastfeeding.

Both local and international environmental and public health groups have tried to address this problem by bringing more efficient stoves into the countryside, which burn only half as much wood and are better at funneling the resulting smoke outside.

«Americans consume an average of nearly 3,500 milligrams of sodium a day, which is about 1,000 milligrams more than any public health group recommends,» Sugiura said.

Moms has also been among the small number of public health groups to land a meeting with Pruitt.

Such judgments should not be rushed, says Steve Brooke, commercialization adviser for human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines at the public health group PATH.

Given that public health groups are just learning how to construct forecasts, convincing suppliers to take such risks may be a slow process, remarks Zaffran.

Public health groups would like to someday coax suppliers into expanding their production facilities for these products, which may barely cover a firm's costs even if all goes smoothly.

She has led the opposition to S. 697, which has drawn criticism from some environmental and public health groups.

The economic consequences of such health problems may be considerable, according to a report published November 8 by the Oxford Health Alliance, a public health group.

Eleven states and four public health groups are challenging this approach, arguing that cap - and - trade does not address areas particularly vulnerable to mercury pollution.

The Bush administration had rejected those suggestions when issuing the 2008 national air quality standards for ground - level ozone, or smog, drawing criticism and legal challenges from environmental and public health groups.

Global warming will bring increased summer heat waves nationwide that are especially harmful to low - income and minority populations in urban areas and the elderly, according to a new report by environmental and public health groups.

In 1996, the EPA assembled its own task force, the Endocrine Disruption Screening and Testing Advisory Committee (EDSTAC), comprised of representatives from industry, government, environmental and public health groups, worker safety groups, and academia.

For years, public health groups have encouraged the movie industry to voluntarily reduce depictions of smoking.

The idea for the legislation seems to have originated with the acting director of the public health group in L.A. County, Dr. Karen Ehnert, a veterinarian.

Public health groups have largely cottoned to this.

The first letter — signed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Nurses Association, the National Medical Association, and 11 other medical and public health groups — states clear opposition to the dual assault on women's health care.