Sentences with phrase «public health researchers know»

Pediatricians and public health researchers know they have to be on the lookout for lead exposure from paint chips and contaminated drinking water.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

Despite this massive public health burden, researchers know little about the variables that determine whether a victim of these injuries will live or die.

The journals and the authors have agreed to this redaction, provided that a mechanism is established to disseminate the data to flu researchers and public - health officials on a need - to - know basis.

In Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo, this relationship is no different, as attested by a study conducted by researchers at University of São Paulo's Public Health School (FSP - USP).

«No one knew how retailers would deal with the added costs of the tax,» said study lead author Jennifer Falbe, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher in public health nutrition.

Now Rebecca Schane, a public health researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues have identified 170 documents from this collection that record what Big Tobacco knew about people for whom...

Meanwhile, public health researchers are looking hard at the federal food stamp program itself, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

«We know that sleep is important for cardiovascular health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this Health and senior author of this study.

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

In a quickly executed study that reflects the global public health threat posed by Zika, the researchers compared Zika's effect on cells known as cortical neural progenitor cells to two other cell types: induced pluripotent stem cells and immature neurons.

But having recently seen a doctor or getting tested for another sexually transmitted disease did not increase the likelihood that gay or bisexual men knew about the preventive drug, the researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found.

And consider this: a 2016 study led by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health found that typical house dust contains 45 toxic chemicals, and that 90 % of the dust samples contained 10 extremely harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer, hormonal disruption, reproductive harm, and nervous system toxicity.