Sentences with phrase «revising national guidelines»

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists recently led a panel of experts in revising national guidelines for thyroid cancer testing to reflect newly available tests that better incorporate personalized medicine into diagnosing the condition.

This information is aimed at programme managers and decision - makers, and those who will be in charge of revising national guidelines on prevention of mother - to - child transmission and infant and young child feeding.

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The Ministry of Education's Food and Nutrition Policy requires all school canteen operators to comply with Fiji's School Canteen Guidelines, developed by the National Food and Nutrition Centre in 2005 and revised in 2013.

The guidelines contain an overview of international policy, goals and guidelines; background on HIV and infant feeding; current recommendations for HIV - positive women and considerations relating to different feeding options; an overview of the process of developing or revising a national policy on infant and young child feeding incorporating HIV concerns; considerations for countries considering the provision of free or low - cost infant formula; suggestions for protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate infant feeding in the general population; key issues in supporting HIV - positive women in their infant feeding decisions; and considerations on monitoring and evaluation.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The researchers say children injured through drink or drugs faced a similar increased risk of suicide as children who had been self - harming — and the National Health Service needed to revise its guidelines to target help and support at these young people.

Among other things, the NSF revised its guidelines to require that programme officers describe the project's significance and importance to the national interest.

The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine released amended guidelines for research involving human embryonic stem cells, revising those that were issued in 2005 and updated in 2007.

For further information about the revised Guidelines for Distributing National Board Certification Incentive Awards contact Mrs. Eleanor Joyce, national board coordinator, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at (804) 2National Board Certification Incentive Awards contact Mrs. Eleanor Joyce, national board coordinator, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at (804) 2national board coordinator, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at [phone].

These monies will be disbursed to the local school divisions to fund the initial and continuing awards for National Board Certified Teachers who meet the eligibility criteria as set forth in the revised Guidelines for Distributing National Board Certification Incentive Awards.

The Guidelines for Distributing National Board Certification Incentive Awards were revised to clarify the eligibility criteria and to change the timeline for distributing incentive awards.

This will be necessary to support countries in revising their national climate plans, and finalize the rules and guidelines for the operation of the Paris Agreement in order to accelerate the implementation of existing targets.

Since the UNFCCC secretariat's assessment of inventories in the first and second compilation and synthesis of first national communications of Annex I Parties and the assessments of the in - depth review teams, the IPCC Guidelines have been revised.

An approach for estimating the net CO2 emissions from forest harvesting and wood products was forwarded to the IPCC Plenary in 1996, as part of the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

As per the Revised IPCC Guidelines for national GHG inventory (1996), the potential emission values are used only in case of unavailability of the actual emission values.

In accordance with the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines, which are used by Parties to prepare their greenhouse gas inventories, emissions from fuel sold to ships or aircraft engaged in international transport (known as «bunker fuels») should not be included in national emission totals, but reported separately.