Sentences with phrase «reducing numbers of cases»

Criminal legal aid practitioners are furious, as most are feeling the impact of the reducing numbers of cases going through the system and can see no justification for the cuts.

But health officials said they were confident the vaccination campaign would reduce the number of cases.

Researchers show that this much vaccine will reduce the number of cases in the second wave by less than 6 per cent — but that is still enough to save 2000 lives.

An HAV vaccine was developed in 1995 and has drastically reduced the number of cases of HAV in the US and many other countries.

Reducing the number of cases to zero demands identifying and breaking all new chains of transmission, a task that still faces major obstacles — not least the fast approaching rainy season.

Effective preventive vaccines against the most oncogenic forms of HPV have been available for a number of years, with vaccination having the long - term potential to reduce the number of cases of cervical cancer,» said NCI Acting Director Douglas Lowy, M.D.

That strategy can be used to break the chains of transmission and reduce the number of cases.

A more intense culling campaign would have reduced the number of cases by 66 %, according to one study.

A study among 701 children in southern Tanzania, published in 2001, showed that the treatment could reduce the number of cases of malaria; Gates's contribution will pay for bigger, multicountry trials that are needed to decide whether to widely implement the strategy.

Dr Lal said more collaboration could help reduce the number of cases of human parasitic infection (cryptosporidiosis) primarily spread through water in extreme weather events or due to gradual climate change.

All the animals under their care are neutered / spayed to reduce the number of cases of euthanasia.

One of the most exciting is an inexpensive device that might be one day be credited with vastly reducing the number of cases of malaria worldwide, which currently number in the hundreds of millions.

Fighting the disease is one of the top public health issues in the world, and reducing the number of cases (with the goal of one day eradicating it completely) is one of the low hanging fruits for making the world a better place.

This stopped the practice of law enforcement requests to ISPs, including Rogers, Bell and Shaw, for subscriber information and made it necessary for officers to file paperwork that police say has sharply reduced the number of cases that can be pursued, says the public broadcaster.

This increases the resources that the regulator must dedicate to each case, reducing the number of cases that can be prosecuted.

Specifically, it will help reduce the number of cases that need to be heard, leading to reduced costs in the court and in clerk offices for supporting these hearings.

The ruling will limit forum shopping and greatly reduce the number of cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas, which is perceived as the most favorable district for plaintiffs bringing patent claims.

It has been very helpful in resolving differences between parties, and in reducing the number of cases going to trial.

It was set up as a specialist structure to cope with a heavy workload of immigration and asylum cases and reduce the number of these cases being heard by the Court of Appeal.

There's hope on the horizon — a petition currently before the Federal Circuit aims to reduce the number of cases in the Eastern District's jurisdiction — but until bogus patent enforcement becomes significantly more challenging or expensive, patent holding firms will no doubt continue to litigate.

Mediation can resolve disputes, promote amicable resolutions, and reduce the number of cases requiring the more formal and complex arbitration procedures of the Board, thus reducing the time and effort required of Board Members serving on the Professional Standards Committee.

Not exact matches

In the case of Waymo, Felten told Fortune senior writer Michal Lev - Ram that her team decided one way to reduce the massive number of global driving deaths would be to remove drivers from the equation by developing autonomous driving technology.

You can reduce the risk by only trading with reputable dealers but there have been a large number of cases where very reputable dealers have sold fake art, antiques etc..

In early January, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) published regulations that limit the number of commercial banks in which each investor can own holdings, which is intended to reduce specific cases of «disorder» in the banking sector, such as the abuse of rights by major shareholders and the existence of «invisible shareholders».

Without getting too bogged down in the technical details, mining Ether requires a computer to continuously run a cryptographic hash function, which is a way to reduce an arbitrarily large amount of data (in this case a block on the Ethereum blockchain) to a datum of a fixed size (a string of so many numbers and letters).

Reducing sugar intake and increasing responsiveness to insulin is extremely important for the growing number of diabetes cases in the U.S. and other developed nations today, so goji berries make a much better snack alternative and sweetener to high - sugar packaged goods and sugar additives.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

In recent years, doctors have cut the number of implantations down to two in most cases, reducing the incidence of triplets and quadruplets, but increasing the rate of twin births.

The studies have proved that children of ages 1 - 2 should be in a rear - facing position as long as possible because it will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in car crashes 5.3 times, which won't be the case with forward facing position.

... Vaccines can reduce the prevalence of resistance by reducing the need for antimicrobial use and can reduce its impact by reducing the total number of cases... These effects may be amplified by herd immunity, extending protection to unvaccinated persons in the population.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

But if the Lords is not to be given more legitimacy, then the case for reducing the number of MPs (and increasing the proportion of the payroll vote in the Commons) will also be weakened.

«Kings County Supreme Court, led by Administrative Judge Lawrence Knipel, has reduced the number of our oldest pending cases by 25 percent, and increased the number of foreclosures resolved by 62 percent,» DiFiore said.

In a study, The Future Hospital: The Progressive Case for Change, it says that in addition to improving efficiency, one solution could be to reduce the total number of available hospital beds.

The five - year, $ 62 million agreement is expected to reduce the number of inmates in solitary confinement by at least a quarter and usher in a range of reforms, including limiting the time served to three months in most cases and providing the prisoners with certain privileges, like monthly phone calls and group recreation.

We have seen numbers reducing for MRSA bloodstream infections and cases of Clostridium difficile over the last five years.

That requires reducing the number of new cases reported throughout the state to fewer than 750 per year, the number considered an epidemic.

ALBANY — Six activists were arrested at the State Capitol Monday while urging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to boost state spending dedicated to assisting those with AIDS and reducing the number of new cases.

«The number of new cancer cases can be reduced and many cancer deaths can be prevented through routine cancer screening.

The money was hailed as a sign of Cuomo's commitment toward his Ending the Epidemic initiative, which aims to reduce the number of new HIV cases to fewer than 750 by the end of the decade.

Reducing even some number of bites could help prevent cases of malaria, yellow fever and dengue — all contracted and transmitted via the bite of the female mosquito.

This suggested that blocking CRH should reduce the number of implanted fetuses — which, the team reports in the November issue of Nature Immunology, is indeed the case.

«New fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases: Most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, will also reduce number of premature deaths.»

The drugs only reduce the number and severity of flare - ups and, in some cases, slow the visible marks of brain damage.

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

«Since more than 60 percent of the measles importations into the country are due to returning U.S. travelers, increasing the number of travelers who are immune to measles will reduce the number of measles cases.»

«Roughly one - third of DSM - 5 mild cases would not receive a diagnosis per the ICD - 10 clinical version, which in turn translates to reduced access to treatment services for a fairly large number of individuals,» he said.

The fact that the Hayneses were able to tap leading medical experts who were willing to reduce their rates to devote scores of hours to their case is just the first of a number of fortuitous turns their story took.

He notes that aggressive ring - culling would always reduce the number of new cases — because some of those farms undoubtedly housed animals that were infected though asymptomatic — but the outbreak could bounce back.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»