Word: greater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unsettling statistic: up to 1 in 50 Americans are living with chronic viral hepatitis, but most of them don't know it. A new report released by the Institute of Medicine in January describes hepatitis as a "major public-health problem" in the U.S. and calls for greater funding for prevention and treatment, increased vaccination, and a public awareness campaign to curb the threat of hepatitis B and C. "It's long overdue," says Dr. Douglas Dieterich, a professor in the Division of Liver Diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "This is really a huge step...
Experts suspect that greater focus on hepatitis could reveal that hepatitis is vastly underreported. They also emphasize that raising awareness is just a starting point. More funding for research is needed to create better drugs - while several new classes of drugs are already in advanced clinical development, doctors say they are not enough. Further research "has a very significant chance of really leading to some very exciting new therapeutics," says Dr. Jeffrey Glenn, director of Stanford University School of Medicine's Center for Hepatitis and Liver Tissue Engineering. "This is an area where money will be incredibly well spent...
...past year, with the killings of two British soldiers and a policeman in attacks blamed on dissident republicans opposed to power-sharing. And on Jan. 8, another policeman was wounded in a bombing. The Independent Monitoring Commission, a paramilitary-watchdog group, said in November that dissidents pose a greater security threat now than at any time in the past six years. Many fear a political collapse could play into their hands and lead to more attacks. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...
...heard of these commissions because of a lack of publicity. With a little more accessible financial knowledge and understanding of how things such as interest rates can affect one’s pocketbook, Americans will make smarter decisions, invest more money into the economy, and participate to a greater degree in the dialogue that dominates our newspapers and our thoughts...
...Asian-Americans and, I think, all students of color still face a degree of uncertainty. There is definitely concern about how their ethnicity will impact their success,” Lee said. “For law students, we have a greater degree of faith in our ability to succeed when we see these ground-breaking types of appointments...