Mental health units should not be exempt from smoking ban
...ers to protect staff and patients from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Another argument is that preventing people smoking is an infringement of human rights, particularly for detained patients. But the Human Rights Act 1998 allows an individual choice only if that does not endanger others. Furthermore, ...Canada high in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's cases: Is Canada too clean?
...e," said Fedorak. "However, we believe there is an environmental element to it, as well, because not all people with the genetic mutation develop the disease." Fedorak said the disease does not exist in some parts of the world, such as China and Africa. The explanation for this, he added, may be that children in...Report issued on outbreak of serious eye infection linked with use of certain contact lens solution
...te. "Our findings, together with the results of environmental testing, suggest that exposure to Fusarium was likely the result of extrinsic contamination of contact lens solution bottles or lens cases occurring outside of the manufacturing or storage processes, perhaps in patients' homes. However, suboptimal c...Exposure to PCBs may reduce the effectiveness of vaccines in children
...epidemiological evidence suggests that exposure to environmental pollutants may have an adverse impact on immune re...onal reason to prevent exposures to PCBs and other environmental pollutants. ...2006 Science-in-Society award winners announced
...approach to scientific uncertainty, and how global environmental change is likely to have impact on everything from the ski industry to the ecosystem of the Rocky Mountains. The judges awarded an honorable mention to Anthony R. Wood Jr. of the Philadelphia Inquirer for "A Mighty Stream," an account of how the Gulf...New approach assesses risk of water-borne pathogen disease
... urban areas throughout the developing world from environmental water exposure. The approach, which uses advan...Diseases.. This approach to risk assessment of environmental surface waters is globally applicable, and can connect the presence of water-borne pathogens to the ...A third of the world population faces water scarcity today
...ce - water is over-used and people are affected by environmental consequences from falling groundwater levels to dy...pread water scarcity, and one of the world's worst environmental disasters. Agriculture uses up to 70 times more water to produce food than is used in drinking and...Study links asthma to increased risk for sleep apnea in young women
...ata from 677 mothers of infants enrolled in the UC environmental health department's Cincinnati Childhood Allergy a...ces, is a five-year study examining the effects of environmental particulates on childhood respiratory health and allergy development. All families enrolled in th...Eliminating blindness the safe way
...SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental change), was implemented in the region in 2001. This community-based approach was designed to fight trachoma by treating the infection with antibiotics and surgery, improving hygiene through the promotion of face and hand washing, and aiding communit...Multiple Sclerosis in genetically susceptible twins is augmented by the northern environment
...mong those with genetic susceptibility due to some environmental factor. By following more than 700 pairs of twin...e among identical twins, which means there is some environmental exposure and it is interacting with the genes." If environment alone was responsible f...Standard developed for collection of suspicious powders
...signed to determine the recovery efficacy on seven environmental surface types that included stainless steel, food-grade painted wood, rubber, tile, concrete, finished wood, and plastic. The study involved six teams, including four National Guard Civil Support Teams, the Navy's Chemical Biological Incidence Res...Washington University researchers find almost half of kids with ADHD are not being treated
...er are certainly genetic. Others may be related to environmental factors, and studying twins allows the researchers... to intervene in new ways -- with psychotherapies, environmental interventions or medications that affect biological pathways that haven't yet been identified. But h...Immune system police learn early and sometimes badly
... recognize all endogenous tissue which, along with environmental and other factors, can lead to autoimmune disease. T cell schooling in the thymus peaks in the first six weeks of life in the mouse, which roughly translates to the first 15 years of human life. Those early lessons seem to last a lifetime and the f...Increased odds of rheumatoid arthritis in women smokers without genetic risk factor
...rm of arthritis. Interaction between genes and environmental factors is considered to be fundamentally important in complex autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. The authors base their findings on a comparison of 115 postmenopausal women with the disease and 466 women without. All the women we...Columbia U receives $16.9M award to study origin and health effects of arsenic in ground water
... arsenic in drinking water. Although arsenic is an environmental carcinogen that affects millions of people worldwi...ious and widespread public health, mitigation, and environmental policy problems. "Arsenic contamination of groundwater has been documented in nearly 20 countries, i...World Trade Center dust cuts lung function capability in rescue workers
...n life, some important lessons in occupational and environmental respiratory disease have been learned as a result of this disaster." "Perhaps the most striking of these lessons is the value of medical surveillance for workers in jobs with high risk for inhalation exposure to toxicants. Because the New York City...Keep the baby, toss the bathwater: How kidneys retain proteins, discard waste
...drome can be triggered by a variety of genetic and environmental factors and leads to kidney failure over a varying time period. "All the treatments we now use for nephrotic syndrome are either non-specific, meaning that we can't say for sure that they directly address the problem, or they are toxic," notes lead...Elevated rates of mental health problems among survivors of tsunami
... to spontaneous recovery under improved social and environmental conditions, such as more permanent housing for displaced persons, continued mental health support and occupational training, and restoration of livelihood programs, which were implemented in Phang Nga province by multiple governmental and nongovernme...Chemical in many air fresheners may reduce lung function
... of furred pets, occupation, socioeconomic status, environmental tobacco smoke, smoking history, and diagnosis of a...ing and energizing the scientific community to use environmental health sciences to understand the causes of disease and to improve human health. The plan can be acc...... developing countries, or in populations with poor environmental living conditions. Most people acquire H. pylori by the time they are 2 or 3 years old. Moss has been studying how H. pylori decreases the amount of p27 in a cell. This protein is responsible for growth regulation of cells, so that a loss of p2...