Insulating houses improves health and well-being
...erience, energy usage, house temperature and other environmental characteristics to measure the effects. Insulation led to a significant increase in indoor temperature and a drop in relative humidity. People in the insulated properties reported that their houses felt significantly less damp and mouldy, were l...New study demonstrates nicotine's role in smoking behavior
...Receiving nicotine was associated with distinctive environmental cues, to mimic the situation associated with tobacco smoke in humans. Whereas animals initially showed no preference for the active lever, over time a strong preference for the lever delivering nicotine developed. Animal subjects were motivated to pr...Smoking increases risk of TB infection, says new study
...reated," said Kirk Smith, UC Berkeley professor of environmental health sciences and senior author of the paper. "The risk factors that lead to latent TB infection becoming active are still not well understood, but this study shows that smoking is probably one of the most important. It could be that smoking suppre...Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
...ould be one part of the many different medical and environmental interventions that may allow kids with Down syndrome to live more normally."...Americans believe global warming is real, want action, but not as a priority
...ed by Anthony Leiserowitz, a courtesy professor of environmental studies at the University of Oregon, in a talk dur...q war, the economy, health care and education, and environmental issues such as air and water pollution, Leiserowitz said. Using affective-image analysis, Leiserow...Better designed roadway intersections can boost older drivers' performance
...n. I think the research shows early support that environmental enhancements are conducive to older driver safety and improved performance, said principal investigator Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions department of occupational therapy. Bu...Wartime raises stress, blood pressure rates in military offspring
... Barnes says. There is evidence of the impact of environmental stress on blood pressure and heart rate, important indicators of cardiovascular health, he says. "Certainly the stress response is increased in soldiers, but this research indicates that it's also increased in the families they leave behind." "Give...Asia-European collaboration addresses water management in Indonesia
...icy support actions, resulting in project failure, environmental degradation and impoverishment of local communitie...cient water resources management in a framework of environmental sustainability and social and economic equity. Dr Susan Page commented: "One of the ways in which...Passive smoke in workplace increases lung cancer risk
...ence to date of the relationship between workplace environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer," said Stayner, prof...ars and restaurants where there are high levels of environmental smoke. ...Media coverage of autism differs dramatically
...sts are primarily grappling with understanding how environmental factors, such as childhood vaccines, might contrib...stead, 48 percent of the media coverage dealt with environmental causes of autism, particularly the childhood MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella that was onc...10 outstanding scientists chosen as First Environmental Health Science Fellows
...elp increase public awareness and understanding of environmental health science as part of a new program that aims ...wo decades, have led to significant changes in how environmental health is studied and clinically practiced. Most of the public and many journalists are unaware of h...Does endurance exercise promote life-threatening changes in athletes' hearts?
...ter of the RV changes, maybe in synergy with other environmental or genetic factors, and hence led to arrhythmias. Our study does not provide definitive proof for either of these explanations, but our data contribute to the accumulating, indirect evidence that endurance exercise may have detrimental effects on the...New quartz references for workplace safety
...ent results from different laboratories. To help environmental laboratories perform these demanding calibrations, NIST has developed a series of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) with precisely measured quantities of respirable quartz deposited on typical filters. The NIST materials cover the range between 5 m...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
...ree Optical Glasses Chemistry of Materials With environmental regulations forbidding the use of lead in consumer...for talks among chemical makers, users, states and environmental advocates on how to address those limitations. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR AT 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, J...Men with no sons more at risk for prostate cancer, according to Mailman School of PH Study
...positioned to examine the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors - the key to understanding many complex diseases....'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions
...nt where a person can be unknowingly influenced by environmental cues." When Wansink and Jeffery Sobal, Cornell professor or nutritional sciences, asked 139 university staff and students to estimate how many decisions they make about food each day, the average response was 15. However, when the volunteers then ans...Risk factors for hypertension start young
...is not purely genetic and also is likely caused by environmental factors like salt intake and stress," Dr. Wang says. "It has already been proven that stress causes sodium retention, but there could be also other factors. This study further supports existing research and warrants further study of the causes for ra...Inherited ischaemic stroke more common in women than men
... heritable. However, the importance of genetic and environmental factors is uncertain. Emmanuel Touz and Peter Rothwell of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK, assessed the relation between the sex of patients who had an ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack and hist...The future of federally funded food programs -- Can they also fight obesity?
...ons." Kennedy stresses that along with necessary environmental changes within federally funded nutrition programs, the limited time allotted for nutrition education should emphasize the concept of nutrient density, in order to maximize nutrients but minimize calories. "Choosing nutrient-dense foods is challengin...