Sentences with phrase «worst health epidemics»

An expose of the food industry's 30 - year campaign to mislead the American public, resulting in one of the worst health epidemics in history.

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While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

Officials say the statistics could have been even worse if not for a host of initiatives that the government, health officials and medical community have taken to address a drug epidemic that has swept through communities across the United States with devastating results.

President Trump said the nation's opioid epidemic — which is killing more than 100 people each day — is the «worst drug crisis in American history» and declared it a public health emergency, pledging the nation's full resolve in overcoming it.

Disagreements over who, or what, was responsible for the epidemic continue, and health agencies predict the situation will get much worse before cases start falling.

Responding to a call for help from African ministers of health after one of the worst epidemics of meningitis ever seen, WHO and PATH partnered to form MVP in 2001, which for over 14 years led the development, licensure, and introduction of a new vaccine against meningitis A.

Liberia is worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic and will likely see thousands of new cases in coming weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

The first time a paediatrician told me that giving my kids fruit juice was bad for their health and creating an obesity epidemic, I laughed «how ridiculous».