Now The Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce, including representatives from the World Heart Federation, the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the European Heart Network, and the European Society of Cardiology, have proposed a set of aggressive measures to help achieve the goal.
FORBES: International Cardiology Groups Push For Aggressive Public Health Goals
The American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which is a collaboration of America's major cancer centers, have separately commissioned experts to look at the scientific data and issued statements recommending women get a high-quality mammogram annually beginning at age 40.
This does not mean that the indignados have failed, as their most important success indicator is the activation of the protest "muscle" in Spanish society, particularly among the network of social organizations at the local level.
Since the fall of the Taliban, a rich and diverse civil society network of training and educational programs has emerged across the country.
FORBES: 11 Years After 9/11: Looking Ahead At The Youth Of Afghanistan
The Palas Athena Association was nominated as the leading entity for this initiative and to create a network of institutions to multiply and mobilize the society.
UNESCO: Detailview | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Most of these friends were added to increase her status in the social-network game "Pet Society, " from developer PlayFish.
And they fear it could harm civil society itself (the network of local institutions where most voluntary activity takes place) by making the government the main link between individuals and the society they offer to help.
In Education, the UKNC for UNESCO Scotland Committee focuses its expertise and the strength of its civil society network on helping policy development in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Human Rights Education (HRE) within the framework of the World Programme for Human Rights Education.
The Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network are teaching civil disobedience.
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society's network established a Monsey office, where case managers arrange housing and disburse food stamps, cash and other refugee benefits to the Yemeni arrivals.
The society also provides an invaluable network for nonprofits.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to convene this new global network with the purpose to mobilize civil society, companies and universities to support and expand local problem solving.
"If New York acts, it would be the first state in the nation, and turbocharge efforts nationally, " said Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society and Cancer Action Network of New York and New Jersey.
The HELP initiative has established a global network of catchments to improve the links between hydrology and the needs of society.
Soros's foundation network-- whose flagship is the Open Society Institute (OSI)-- has reportedly dispensed billions to a multitude of far left organizations.
The American Cancer Society and National Comprehensive Cancer Network Expert Consensus Guidelines recommend both surgery and radiation therapy as equally appropriate treatments for early-stage prostate cancer.
It's the kind of bold thinking most recently synonymous with the internet boom of the mid to late 1990s and the excitement connected to ideas of a new network society, so it's no surprise that reaction from car manufacturers has been cautious.
Heinz ( HNZ - news - people ) Kerry Foundation award, public advocate for husband John's presidential bid, and was listed as a "grantee" on the 2006 Soros Foundation Network Report within their Open Society Institute's "Politicization of Science Program".
Through its Scotland Committee, the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) draws upon the expertise and support of a strong network of civil society organisations, institutions and individuals.
"Growing external resource dependencies are putting countries at significant risk, " said Mathis Wackernagel, President of Global Footprint Network, which collaborated with the WWF and the Zoological Society of London on the report.
CNN: Earth 'going downhill' as consumption rises, report says
The network has enabled new revelations about ocean dynamics that are helping society understand and forecast global climate.
He said the society was an integral part of the children's protection network in Wales.
These entrepreneurs state that being part of the Ashoka network allows them to not feel isolated or out of step with society, that they have an identity as a social entrepreneur, that they can achieve their goals, that they belong.
And so, you know, many of the problems that Africa has now with this new generation of leaders, with this newly energized civil society, with people who are saying - you know, like the movie Network, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore - I mean, there is a new vibrancy among those who want to see a renaissance in the continent.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, is a worldwide financial messaging network to facilitate the interbank transfer of funds.
" Daniel Lynch, who worked on the network in the 1970s, adds: "We were techies, we weren't trying to solve society's ills.
The new LTE network from Ericsson will enable UNE offer unique experiences to individuals and businesses in pursuit of achieving a connected society, thus contributing to the major objectives set by the Colombian government aimed at closing the digital divide and increase Internet penetration.
ENGADGET: LTE arrives in Colombia, stays for the coffee Mobile
应用推荐