Many of George Bush's health policies likely to be controversial
...ing to block action on issues as diverse as global warming and landmines. An example is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which exists in parallel with, and arguably undermines, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria by diverting needed resources. "Like other second term pres...Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
...chanisms behind climate trends, including the weak warming trend perceived in the Pacific Ocean, and contemplate the atmospheric response to the warming that determines how regional climate is changing in the tropics. Junye Chen, Department of Earth and...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
...st vulnerable to climate change, with the greatest warming projected over the southern margins of the Sahara and central Southern Africa and extreme weather events will become more common even as overall water resources decrease. Water is also a health issue for African citizens. More than half the populat...Global warming: a formidable challenge to health
Global warming is a real concern to health experts, according to ...st in this week's BMJ. His comments come as global warming gets the Hollywood treatment in the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. Global warming means not ...NSF considers alternatives for treating ill South Pole worker
...ing weather conditions of the polar spring. Spring warming produces strong winds and extremely changeable weather that is difficult to predict. Unlike in April of 2001, however, the amount of daylight is increasing. Nevertheless, such a flight would pose some measure of risk to the aircrews, which will be t...Sage improves memory, study shows
...r, whose 1652 text says "It also heals the memory, warming and quickening the senses". People were known to take sage for memory loss centuries ago and drank teas and tinctures containing extracts of the herb. The results of the study are published in the current edition of the academic journal Pharmacology,...Public strong on opinions weaker on knowledge
...tween the MMR vaccine and autism or between global warming and other environmental problems. "The challenge f...ple are able to understand the link between global warming and fossil fuel emissions, they incorrectly assume that other environmental problems such as the th...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...also carry other air pollutants that impact global warming and play a greater role in climate change than scientists previously realized. Eliminating the Pollution of One-Car, One-Driver Commuting The largest station car project in the nation using advanced technology vehicles is being tested in the city o...Study explores the effect of temperature on mortality
...ot or cold temperatures increase mortality. Global warming and other weather phenomena, such as El Nino, have warranted the need for further investigation into the weather-mortality relation," says lead author Frank Curriero, PhD, an assistant scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...URE FROM DEVELOPING Although many worry how global warming will affect the planet, University of California researchers theorizing why it took so long for agriculture to develop say that global cooling is a bigger problem for human survival. Agriculture was impossible 13,000 years ago during the Ice Age, alt...El Nino increases diarrheal disease incidence by 200%
The El Niño phenomenon -- the warming of the equatorial Pacific ocean which occurs every...e of increase in ambient temperature due to global warming or other local factors. Further studies, also funded by USAID through Harvard's Applied Research on...Nausea from anesthesia plummets with extra oxygen
...dy's naturalreaction to general anesthesia. Simply warming patients can maintain normal temperature, Sessler noted, and this has now become standard practice duringgeneral anesthesia. This summer, the research group reported finding that patients with poorlycontrolled post-surgical pain had higher risk of in...Is a one child policy worldwide the solution to human population growth?
..., boosted by genetically modified foods and global warming will be adapted to. The opposing view, they say, is based on the belief that the population problem needs to be brought under control with interventionary measures. It is not so confident in science's ability to double grain production sustainably...Climate change will have detrimental effects on health in Europe
...imate change and human health in Europe) Climate warming and changes in rainfall patterns may have significant and wide ranging impacts on health in Europe, say a team of researchers in this week's BMJ. The team are part of the International Working Group on the early human health effects of climate chan...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...rticularly important in the21st century, if global warming predictions come to pass. UD climate expert Lauren... 1, January 1997, pp.84-93). Whether or not global warming occurs, ongoing weather events such as ElNiño--that notorious disruption of the ocean and atm...