Mailman School of Public Health researchers analyze air quality and weather changes by 2050
... land use, climate and emissions changes on future environmental conditions and resulting health implications such...s of changes in climate, emissions and land use on environmental health in the region. "As more land in this region is expected to be converted to human-dominated...Chunky adolescents' cardiovascular health is headed in wrong direction
...cular Twin Study, led by Dr. Frank Treiber, on how environmental stress impacts cardiovascular health. About 17 percent of the black and white identical and fraternal twins had mid-range body mass, which is weight divided by height. "Almost everything was in between," says Dr. Dong. For example, the whites had...Breakdown of myelin implicated in Alzheimer's, UCLA research shows
...e susceptible to the ravages of age in the form of environmental and genetic insults and slowly begins to break down. "The myelin breakdown process mimics the developmental process of myelination, but this time in reverse," Bartzokis said. "That's what we think underlies the progressive spread of the neuritic p...Childhood obesity intervention shows promising results
...omerville: Eat Smart. Play Hard. a community-based environmental change intervention to prevent obesity in culturally diverse, early elementary school children reduced weight gain over one school year. The multi-faceted program was designed and implemented by researchers from the Friedman School of Nutrition Scie...Scientists equip bacteria with custom chemo-navigational system
...or to powerful new opportunities in drug delivery, environmental cleanup and synthetic biology. Their findings are ...ecific chemical signal would open new frontiers in environmental cleanup, drug delivery and synthetic biology," says Dr. Gallivan. The researchers equipped E. coli...Transcontinental wildfire emissions monitored from space
...ng data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely originated from South American wildfires some 13 000 kilometres away. Using SCIAMACHY, Annemieke Gloudemans from SRON ...Stroke risk nearly doubles for siblings of people who have had a stroke
... "Other possible explanations could include shared environmental factors such as diet, physical activity and smoking habits. Medical conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes which cluster in families may also play a role." The study, a part of BASIC (Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project), ...Impact of a chemical component of diesel exhaust particles
...es involving the protective effects of estrogen to environmental pollutants. Physiology is the study of how molecules, cells, tissues and organs function to create health or disease. The American Physiological Society (APS) has been an integral part of the scientific discovery process since it was established i...Research demonstrates link between domestic violence and asthma
Boston, MA -- The link between environmental exposures and asthma has been clearly described, b...nt of this common respiratory condition. Classic environmental triggers for asthma have been carefully studied, but there is less information on the role of stress...Assessment model based on medical history gauges lung cancer risk
...ofessionals, including: smoking habit; exposure to environmental tobacco smoke; family history of cancer; hay fever; emphysema; and exposure to dust, or asbestos. "Our goal is to develop an instrument that can provide physicians with patients' estimated risk for developing lung cancer, like the Gail model does f...JCI table of contents: May 1, 2007
...ymptoms of OS and distinguish the contributions of environmental and genetis factors to this complex disease. TITLE: Homeostatically proliferating CD4+ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of an Omenn syndrome murine model AUTHOR CONTACT: Masaaki Murakami Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Phone: 81-6-6879...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
...considered today's most prestigious energy-related environmental prize (please see www.energyglobe.info/geg/frontend_en/view.php?MENUEID=138&TEMPID=&USERNAME ). Free market forces and competition is changing the complexion of and expanding the market, says Eric Usher, head of UNEP's Renewable Energy and Finance...Outdated policies are impediment for Americans with disabilities
...abilities -- has helped to increase recognition of environmental obstacles, but its implementation and enforcement have often been disappointing, the committee said. Ironically, even within health care facilities, people with disabilities encounter equipment and surroundings that are not designed to accommodate t...UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
...ving devices, from medical diagnostic equipment to environmental sensors that can detect nano-sized particles much tinier than human cells. UD's research grant is part of $7.5 million grant awarded to universities in four states--Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, and New Hampshire--by DOE's Experimental Program to Stim...Obesity increases workers' compensation costs
... John Dement, Ph.D., professor of occupational and environmental medicine, who is the principal investigator for development of the workplace safety surveillance program at Duke." We can use the Duke population to think about the community, so the solutions we come up can benefit the community as well. "The prim...Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
...f their mothers' responsiveness. The study, led by environmental and developmental psychologist Gary Evans, is publ...d professor of human development and of design and environmental analysis in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. To study stress-induced physiological changes in you...Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2
...e importance of accurate measurements in assessing environmental change, it is not surprising that ESA goes to great lengths to ensure that the data from CryoSat-2 will be as accurate as possible. Enter the Arctic Arc Expedition, part of the International Polar Year. The expeditions two Belgian explorers, Alai...Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
...ffect of the world's first national smoking ban on environmental tobacco smoke exposure in 42 Dublin pubs and among...arworkers, the self-reported workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke was over 40 hours per week pre-ban, but dropped to about 25 minutes post-ban, showing ...MS patients not receiving medications to slow disease progression, research shows
...ty in young adults. The cause of MS is unknown but environmental factors and genetics are thought to contribute to the onset of the disease....DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
...portant data to support future decision making for environmental remediation. "Results from the study will be extremely useful to the regulators, stakeholder groups and DOE when conducting evaluations of the remedial action alternatives under consideration, and when we ultimately determine our desired course of a...