Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
...orms, he would like to see them evaluate potential fallout from their decisions and look for ways to minimize ill effects to benefit recipients. "Social and economic policies are health policy," Kaplan said. "When governments or other agencies make decisions that are going to have an impact on people's lives...Rutgers/EOHSI builds model to assess World Trade Center fallout
...blems: first, they weren't designed to monitor the fallout from such a massive event; second, many sensors in lower Manhattan went offline when the power was cut; and, finally, many became clogged with debris. But not all of the sensors went down; enough stayed in action to help Stenchikov and his colleagues...Exposure to radiation after Chornobyl increases risk of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents
... The authors suggest that exposure to radioactive fallout from the Chornobyl accident increased thyroid cancer risk in those exposed as children and adolescents. "In young children and adolescents, thyroid gland tissue requires large amounts of iodine coming primarily from food," said Geoffrey R. Howe, ...National response needed in India to bring HIV epidemic under control
... impact of HIV in India would be vast: "The social fallout and the devastation to an already fragile public-health system would be huge, even if AIDS were to affect only a few sections of some states," says Alexander. Specific factors that influence the Indian epidemic are size, behavioural patterns and d...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
...0 kiloton detonation in New York would result in a fallout plume extending the length of Long Island, resulti.... would destroy hospitals in the District, but its fallout plume would also incapacitate hospitals in Baltimore, nearly 40 miles away. The researchers note...Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
...etermine how much time they have to react before a fallout cloud arrives," said Florig. We advocate a more nu...t enough time to reliably flee the area before the fallout arrives," said Florig. Finally, the researchers analyze how long people should re...Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals
...heir peers, setting themselves up for the negative fallout that accompanies absenteeism. Whats keeping them from school, more than heath issues, is the stigma and the bullying that accompanies being overweight. Future research should explore this additional, very damaging side effect of being overweight. ...