Prof Paul Gately, a specialist in childhood obesity at Leeds Metropolitan University, said a tool like this would help the NHS target specific people at risk rather than the "scattergun one-size-fits-all approach, which we know does not work".
The new drugs target very specific subsets of patients with the disease and will come with gene tests to pluck out which patients are likely to respond.
The best ones design product from the beginning to target specific price and margin points.
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Chrysler also can use the information to target specific groups, such as "master planners" who live in California.
If a customer gives a low score, additional questions pop up so the airline can target specific problems or employees.
The company can target specific demographics through brands like Pogo.com, which reaches 10 million unique visitors per month, 60 percent of whom are women.
Instead of aiming at broad tumor categories, such as all patients with lung cancer or colon cancer, the new medicines target specific subsets of patients whose tumors have particular gene mutations.
The short-stay care wards like the Brampton ward at NGH will target specific care for each patient, the trust said.
Tustin Red Cobras head coach Darren Crawford and assistant coach Richard Bowman, whose powerhouse squad went undefeated during the 2011 regular season, told their team to target specific players on the youth football teams from Yorba Linda, Santa Margarita and San Bernardino, said then-assistant coach John Zanelli and three players interviewed by the Register.
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FirstBank asked the department to scale back the proposal but favors its requirement that employers advertise job openings with specific organizations that target the disabled.
The solution, according to the report, is to narrowly target a specific region and sector under the threat, provide more specific information about the threat and give the public actionable steps they can take when a new alert is given.
Stepping away from the accelerator model (find existing exciting startups that are doing innovative things, provide them with mentors and a working space in return for equity), Berlin appears to be favoring the incubator (create companies that target specific and identified markets, hire smart people to run with the idea and provide them with the tools to execute).
As a result drug researchers have to sift through millions of compounds in order to find the right formulation for a specific target.
"This naturally-occurring cholesterol offers a very specific target for the design of safer drugs that could treat stomach ulcers and, long-term, prevent stomach cancer linked with H.pylori, " said Dr Minoru Fukuda, who led the study.
Precision advertising, giving marketers the ability to hyper-target their ads to very specific business demographics across the LinkedIn network.
But the statement added that the type of device and the fact it had been left in a lavatory of a bar with no specific target "do not point necessarily towards the groups that recently have promoted violence and terrorism in the Basque region, " it said.
Your target market is the specific group of people that your company has created products and services for.
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It does hit a specific molecular target in the cell called VEGF.
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Previously, union vice president Shawn Moran had said "interest" group activism against the Border Patrol is taking a toll on the morale of agents and that Border Patrol agents don't target specific types of people, except those violating the nation's immigration laws.
In the interest of collectors and in response to the high quotes on the art market, in particular Western market, of religious objects (paintings, sculptures, architectural elements, silver and various objects of piety), UNESCO organized a training session for legal and operational matters on the specific theme of the protection of religious heritage, which has been the target of a significant looting in recent years.
The first wave of new, target specific agents had a relatively easy path to follow.
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The year-old Out NYC is a rare urban refuge: While the rest of this list features properties in the countryside or by water, the Out NYC is one of the few city hotels that target a specific age bracket.
The legislation also increases the deficit reduction target for the Joint Committee by the amount of the cost of the jobs package and specifies that, if the Committee reaches that higher target, then their measures would replace and turn off the specific offsets in this legislation.
Federal agents have "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, " David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a written statement.
However, federal agents have "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, " David Kris, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement announcing the arrests Saturday night.
JackThreads , an online shopping site for men, used Custom Audiences to target specific segments of its customer database and target them with ads for products in categories the company knew were most relevant to them such as sneakers.
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Facebook is not the only tech company making it easier to target specific people with ads.
Because instead of taking Apple head on, each has decided to target its own specific niche within the tablet industry.
Metmarine also has a very specific target customer, British boat captains in the Mediterranean.
"There has been no specific threat to the centre but it is an obvious target, " said an army officer based there.
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