Sentences with phrase «public health threat»

Eventually, the effort might lead to a way to predict new pathogens before they emerge as public health threats.

Type 2 diabetes is a major public health threat linked to the obesity epidemic.

This growing public health threat has motivated scientists to look for new antibiotics and alternative treatments to beat infections.

It's important that we identify this as a serious public health threat and start addressing them!

Because coasts are densely populated, the amount of sewage reaching seas and oceans is of particular concern because some substances it contains can harm ecosystems and pose a significant public health threat.

He worked within the Clean the Rain campaign that dealt with the environmental and public health threats associated with mercury pollution.

To fight this major public health threat, scientists are working to figure out how resistance spreads among bacteria.

A driving force behind this growing public health threat is the ability of bacteria to share genes that provide antibiotic resistance.

A recently published paper describing free - roaming cats as «a significant public health threat» fails to deliver convincing evidence.

«The problems we're looking at are on a scale with other types of public health threats in these countries, like malaria,» Ericson notes.

With opioid addiction and prescription drug abuse considered one of the biggest public health threats of our time in the U.S., many are asking why so many Americans are struggling with addiction to illegal drugs and prescription medications.

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.

Antibiotic - resistant bacteria are one of the biggest public health threats facing us today.

In a fast - paced 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.

Southern Research scientists joined the front lines in the battle against HIV / AIDS in 1986, not long after the deadly viral infection emerged as a terrifying new public health threat in -LSB-...]

Our results reveal contrasting evolutionary patterns among the lineages, with growing genetic diversities observed in each, and suggest that CHIKV will continue to be a major public health threat with the potential for further emergence and spread.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), high blood pressure is «the second greatest public health threat» in the US, and about half of all with hypertension have uncontrolled high blood pressure.1

What we will cover: Climate change is one of the biggest public health threats facing the world.

It has therefore been recognized as an emerging public health threat for the EU.

The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Wednesday.

The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said.

Oneida County officials have been in contact and consultation with the New York State Department of Health and have jointly concluded that at this time there is no ongoing public health threat.

Gene drives have the potential to address public health threats, conservation - related issues, agricultural pests, and other challenges.

This finding is important because tobacco shops are common in many cities, but until this study have not been viewed as possible public health threats.»

«The AIDS public health threat has morphed into an HIV prevention challenge,» says medical epidemiologist Andrew Grulich, head of the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, which leads Australia's national surveillance of HIV / AIDS and is based at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

The surprise of Zika may serve as yet another warning flag for more public health threats linked to climate extremes that are already intensifying due to global climate change

In recent years, highly publicized public health threats like pandemic influenza have helped many realize the fundamental linkages between veterinary medicine and human health.

However, it is sheds full of thousands of animals living with their own excrement that are the real source of a massive public health threat — those sheds are «food for flu» as evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace states.

She added «In real public health emergencies, PODs are set up to provide potentially lifesaving medications, vaccines, or medical supplies when there is an actual public health threat that could adversely impact the lives of a lot of people in the community.»

«Last year, the flu posed a genuine public health threat to the people of New York.

Synthetic marijuana is dangerous and poses a very real public health threat to New Yorkers, their families and children.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Antibiotic resistance, which occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces the effectiveness of antibiotics, is among the most pressing public health threats.

When the World Health Organization issued a report last February highlighting the antibiotic - resistant pathogens that posed the gravest public health threats, it capped a disheartening year.

In a commentary appearing today in the journal JAMA Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center neurologist Ray Dorsey, M.D. and Bastiaan Bloem, M.D., Ph.D., with Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, argue that the medical community must be mobilized to respond to this impending public health threat.

Since this water isn't a source of drinking water and is underground, the contamination isn't an immediate public health threat, says Sanial, now a geochemist at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

«Typhoid affects around 30 million people each year and global surveillance at this scale is critical to address the ever - increasing public health threat caused by multidrug resistant typhoid in many developing countries around the world.»

For decades, officials have focused on trace arsenic in drinking water as the chemical's primary public health threat; in 2001, the EPA dropped the limit for arsenic in water from 50 ppb to 10 ppb.

As the incidence of type 2 diabetes continues to increase at an alarming rate worldwide, these findings can have global importance for what may be the largest public health threat of this century,» said lead author Jinnie Rhee, who conducted the research as a doctoral student in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard Chan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Nephrology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Clearly, it is an urgent public health threat, but I would not have expected a book from neuroscientists on the topic.

«This kind of clinical research is essential so that we can better understand the true public health threat of these mosquito - borne viruses,» said Stephen Higgs, PhD, president of ASTMH.

Health - care companies have a special responsibility to act, as climate pollution is the key public health threat of the 21st century.»

Washington, DC (Scicasts)-- Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation, resources for schools, out - of - school time programs, communities, families, doctors and industry on ways to work together to address one of the nation's leading public health threats - childhood obesity.

Learn how the Association of Shelter Veterinarians» shelter guidelines can help minimize public health threats in the shelter environment.

In 1997, the City Council revised the animal control ordinance to: require licensing of cats and dogs; require a kennel permit for more than four cats or four dogs; regulate the number of animals that may be adopted from the city shelter; define animal cruelty and animal nuisance; and give city officials authority to control potential public health threats.

«Mountaintop removal unfortunately continues to cause harm while state and federal agencies too often ignore the deadly public health threat imposed by these operations.»

And for a look back at some of the most significant real, imagined and controversial public health threats over the past 40 years, Emeritus Professor Simon Chapman gave us a glimpse of his new book, Smoke Signals, which brings together a selection of 71 essays from the prolific writer's hundreds of opinion page articles, blogs, commentaries and editorials on topics ranging from tobacco control to wind turbines.