Wasting

The Eleanor Crook Foundation and Mana Nutrition Applaud the U.S. Government's Continued Leadership in Combating Child Malnutrition with $200 Million Commitment for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food

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星期五, 五月 3, 2024
Congress, Climate change, UNICEF, Investment, Heart, World Health Organization, Hunger, Partnership, ECF, History, Engineering, Wasting, Administrator, International development, Malnutrition, Nutrient, Child, Action Against Hunger, Workforce, Government, USAID, Famine

The Administrator made the announcement at Mana Nutrition's RUTF manufacturing facility in Fitzgerald, Georgia, where three million packets of RUTF are produced daily using American peanuts.

Key Points: 
  • The Administrator made the announcement at Mana Nutrition's RUTF manufacturing facility in Fitzgerald, Georgia, where three million packets of RUTF are produced daily using American peanuts.
  • The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), a U.S.-based private philanthropy dedicated to ending global malnutrition, was present at Mana to celebrate Administrator Power's announcement.
  • Worldwide, child wasting claims the lives of one in five children under the age of five.
  • "Every 11 seconds, a child dies of malnutrition – a heartbreaking reality that we can put an end to.

Leanpath and Galley Solutions Announce Integration to Drive Faster, More Precise Food Waste Reduction

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星期一, 四月 22, 2024
Wasting, Partnership, Food, Food delivery

The new integration between Leanpath and Galley Solutions imports customers' daily menus into the Leanpath food waste tracking platform.

Key Points: 
  • The new integration between Leanpath and Galley Solutions imports customers' daily menus into the Leanpath food waste tracking platform.
  • Leanpath helps us avoid that food waste, and the integration with Galley Solutions is the next evolution of that work.
  • "With this new integration, Galley Solutions customers are going to be able to drive even more precise and impactful food waste actions."
  • "This integration highlights the importance of the Galley Solutions culinary operating system as the hub of customer's food data," says Galley Solutions CTO Matt Ferguson.

InventHelp Inventor Develops New Shower Head/Water Tank Apparatus (LAX-1563)

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星期一, 四月 15, 2024
DEPT, Suite, Sale, Multimedia, Wasting, AQUA, Temperature, Running, Water

The invention provides a new water tank device and shower head designed to save a specified amount of water until it is at a designated temperature.

Key Points: 
  • The invention provides a new water tank device and shower head designed to save a specified amount of water until it is at a designated temperature.
  • In doing so, it helps prevent wasted water during shower startup times.
  • The original design was submitted to the Los Angeles sales office of InventHelp.
  • 22-LAX-1563, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext.

Orphan designation: Recombinant adeno-associated viral vector encoding a human micro-dystrophin gene under the control of a muscle specific promoter Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 14/10/2016 Positive

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星期二, 四月 9, 2024
Eurostat, Civil service commission, Wasting, Diagnosis, Atrophy, Mutation, B cell, Weakness, Disease, Agonal respiration, Patient, Committee, Knowledge, Regulation, EMA, IRIS, Death, Human, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Dystrophin, European, COMP, Heart, Safety, European Commission, Muscle weakness, Marketing, DMD, DSM-IV codes, Medicine, Pharmaceutical industry

Orphan designation: Recombinant adeno-associated viral vector encoding a human micro-dystrophin gene under the control of a muscle specific promoter Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 14/10/2016 Positive

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Orphan designation: Recombinant adeno-associated viral vector encoding a human micro-dystrophin gene under the control of a muscle specific promoter Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 14/10/2016 Positive

WTA Foundation and Gates Foundation launch new campaign—Women Change the Game—to urge action on women’s health and nutrition

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星期五, 三月 8, 2024
International, Woman, WTA, Dream, Quality of life, Wasting, Tennis, Global health, Government, Food, Life, Risk, Breast, Health, Face, Nutrient, WTA Tour, Stillbirth, Fund, Infant, UNICEF, Child, Movement, Bill, Workforce, Athlete, Mortality, Malnutrition, Partnership, Dietary supplement

A key component of the campaign is the first-of-its-kind WTA Foundation Global Women’s Health Fund.

Key Points: 
  • A key component of the campaign is the first-of-its-kind WTA Foundation Global Women’s Health Fund.
  • “It is unacceptable that so many women and girls don’t have access to adequate nutrition and basic care,” said Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • “The WTA Foundation was founded on the idea of equal opportunity, and that’s exactly what Women Change the Game is about.
  • For more information about Women Change the Game and the WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund, visit www.womenchangethegame.com .

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 1/2a Study of ARO-DM1 for Treatment of Type 1 Myotonic Dystrophy

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星期五, 三月 8, 2024
Pharmaceutical, Genetics, Health, Clinical Trials, Wheelchair, Myotonia, Cataract, DMPK, Wasting, Exercise, Arrowhead, Conference, DM1, RNA, Muscle weakness, Patient, CUG, Primate, MDA, RNA interference, Episcopal conference, Vaccine

Patients with DM1 have muscle weakness and wasting, myotonia, cataracts, and often develop cardiac conduction abnormalities.

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  • Patients with DM1 have muscle weakness and wasting, myotonia, cataracts, and often develop cardiac conduction abnormalities.
  • Pathogenesis of DM1 is driven by an expanded CUG trinucleotide repeat in the 3’-untranslated region of DMPK transcripts.
  • These abnormal transcripts cause mis-regulated splicing, known as spliceopathy, for certain messenger RNAs which are directly linked to the clinical manifestations of DM1.
  • Presentation materials may be accessed on the Events and Presentations page under the Investors section of the Arrowhead website.

Eleanor Crook Foundation and Helen Keller Intl Announce Partnership with Senegal's Ministry of Health to Combat Child Wasting

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星期二, 一月 30, 2024
Community, Adolescence, Death, World Health Organization, Global Acute Malnutrition, Woman, Kwashiorkor, UNICEF, Hunger, Pediatric nursing, Government, SDG3, Wasting, Policy, Failure, Sustainable Development Goals, Partnership, Tuberculosis, USAID, World Bank, Mother, Malnutrition, Survival, National Health, Social Action, ECF, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Ministry, Nursing

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senegalese Ministry of Health, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and Helen Keller Intl have embarked on a new $4 million initiative to significantly reduce child malnutrition in Senegal.

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  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senegalese Ministry of Health, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and Helen Keller Intl have embarked on a new $4 million initiative to significantly reduce child malnutrition in Senegal.
  • Wasting causes the deaths of millions of children worldwide, and those who survive face significant threats to their long-term health.
  • In recent years, Senegal has made great progress on child stunting, a condition caused by malnutrition that results in slow growth and developmental delays – but unfortunately, progress on child wasting has plateaued.
  • Helen Keller Intl greatly appreciates the Eleanor Crook Foundation's invaluable support and the leadership of the Government of Senegal to advance this lifesaving work."

Tan Delta Systems offers to help global industry save over 12 billion litres of oil a year

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星期六, 十二月 30, 2023
Failure, Wind, Lubrication, Oil, Wasting, Carbon, CO2, System, Ship, Life, Renewable energy

SHEFFIELD, England, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology. With a return on investment of just a few months, advanced real time oil analysis technology – if deployed globally – could reduce oil usage in industrial lubrication applications by 30% and reduce CO2 emissions by 35.7 million tons every year. That's the equivalent of removing 1.5 million cars from the road.

Key Points: 
  • As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology.
  • SHEFFIELD, England, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology.
  • Oil used for lubrication of machines, from ships, planes and cranes to robots, generators, trucks and cars – electric cars included – consume over 40 billion litres of oil each and every year.
  • The average dump truck has 100 litres of oil, an excavator 200 litres and an average wind turbine holds up to 600 litres.

Brightseed Receives $1.6 Million Grant to Improve Birth Outcomes by Supporting Undernourished Pregnant and Nursing Mothers

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星期二, 十二月 19, 2023
Research, Philanthropy, Consumer, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Fund Raising, Foundation, Science, Baby, Maternity, Women, Other Philanthropy, Other Science, Entrepreneurship, Woman, EED, Forager, Health, Malnutrition, Wasting, Artificial intelligence, Azithromycin, Infant, Bill, Mother, Therapy, Birth control

Bioactives company Brightseed today announces its second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .

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  • Bioactives company Brightseed today announces its second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
  • Brightseed will use the $1.6 million funding to focus its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Forager® , on identifying and validating natural bioactive compounds that target environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) in undernourished pregnant and lactating women, ultimately impacting global birth and infant outcomes.
  • EED is a poorly understood condition caused in part by micronutrient deficiencies, undernutrition, certain gut infections, and abnormal gut microbiota.
  • The project will ultimately result in candidate clinically effective nutritional products and potential therapeutics to support gut health in pregnant and lactating mothers in order to improve birth outcomes.

ExGCOO announces its entry into the Thai market, aiming to create a competitive advantage in trading fees

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星期三, 十一月 15, 2023
Wasting, DIGITAL, MACD, Safety, Software, Mobile phone, Cryptocurrency

SACRAMENTO, CA, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The renowned securities service platform, ExGCOO, recently announced its official entry into the Thai market and plans to maintain a competitive edge in trading fees to gain market share.

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  • SACRAMENTO, CA, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The renowned securities service platform, ExGCOO, recently announced its official entry into the Thai market and plans to maintain a competitive edge in trading fees to gain market share.
  • ExGCOO is a comprehensive software that provides stock data for most countries worldwide and offers various technical indicators.
  • It has gained a large user base globally due to its user-friendly interface and outstanding performance.
  • ExGCOO's interface design is simple, clear, and easy to use
    Users can easily find the stock information and trading functions they need without wasting much time exploring.