Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
...a major U.S. city lives in a more polluted part of town than the average white person, the levels of inequality vary widely between cities and defy simple explanation. In a study of the 61 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, University of Colorado at Boulder Assistant Professor Liam Downey found that in s...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
...awker solar lighting projects. More and more small town hawkers are switching from kerosene lamps to solar lights. Most kerosene lamps, especially the open wick type commonly used in rural India, provide very low lighting intensities, far below those required to meet reading needs adequately. The effic...Undergrad: Mothers in African study undereducated on diarrhea
...n in Addis Ababa and at clinics in the small rural town of Gondar during his sophomore year January inters... decided that the clinic in Gondar a small, rural town in northwestern Ethiopia was the ideal setting for his study, because "my research would have great...Public health and pandemic flu preparedness to headline Preventive Medicine 2007
...on. An all-star panel of experts will anchor a town hall breakfast discussion on Saturday, February 24, at 7:00 am, titled Coordination of Pandemic Influenza Planning Efforts at the National, State, and Local Levels. The session will feature Robert Kadlec, MD, MPH, former staff director for the Senate...Human circadian clocks couple to local sun time
...ermany. Individuals were compared according to the town size in which they lived: The first group included those in areas with a population size of 300,000 or less, while other groups corresponded to individuals living in towns and cities of larger sizes. The researchers found that within the first grou...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...XDR-TB) had been detected in Tugela Ferry, a rural town in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, epicenter of South Africa 's HIV / AIDS epidemic. Eight days later, the WHO urged a response to the outbreak akin to recent global efforts to control SARS and bird flu. The new strain in September appeared within a ...Malaria may fuel spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
... likely the result of this co-infection. Using the town of Kisumu, Kenya on the shore of Lake Victoria as ...nd 980,000 excess malaria episodes since 1980 in a town with an adult population of about 200,000, the researchers said. Kublin said that these findings su...Telemedicine improves breast screenings for rural Indian reservations, U-M researchers find
...y to our hometown. There are a lot of women in our town who need to have the mammograms done that usually don't come."...In case of pandemic flu majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives
...the other members of their household stay in their town or city, they were likely to stay. These findings speak to the resilience of the American public in the face of a potential health crisis, said Robert J. Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Hea...Studies identify food sources of disease and drug resistance
...tuberculosis infection among children in a Finnish town to carrots grown on a single farm. An epidemiologic investigation linked illness to eating raw carrots. Laboratory tests confirmed that the bacteria in infected children's stool samples were indistinguishable from the bacteria isolated from the farm....NHGRI funds assessment of public attitudes about population-based studies on genes and environment
...based survey of 4,000 individuals and will conduct town hall meetings attended by 1,000 people in the five...on-based studies for the focus groups, survey, and town hall meetings. When, or if, large, population-based studies are launched in the future, the inform...Health effects of 'functional foods' featured during four-day symposium, Sept. 10-13
...an, scientists surveyed 1,073 people in a Japanese town noted for its high consumption of mandarin oranges. The researchers found certain chemical markers in the subjects' blood that are associated with a lower risk of several health problems, including liver disease, atherosclerosis (hardening of the art...Katrina survey shows many suffered extreme adversity and show signs of post-traumatic stress
...hey planned to continue to live permanently in the town where they lived at the time of interview. Some 7...heir pre-hurricane homes plan not to remain in the town permanently. 22.3 percent of respondents said they planned to continue to live permanently in t...Digital cameras and Internet ease the pain of oral disease
...nt. The photos are then sent electronically across town to pediatric dentists, who review the files in batches, identifying those toddlers with ECC. Dentists believe that this new screening system is the first of its kind, and will pave the way for earlier identification of the cavities before they becom...Water fluoridation in New South Wales
...hievements of the 20th century. Yass was the first town in New South Wales (NSW) to be fluoridated, in1956, and by the late 1980s, approximately 90 percent of the population had access to fluoridated water. In New South Wales (NSW) -- in contrast to metropolitan Sydney, where 100 percent of the population...Flood forecasting for Newfoundland and Labrador available online
Residents of the town of Badger, located in the central region of Newfou...hour. The flood waters froze, putting parts of the town in ice for weeks. The Newfoundland and Labrador Minister for the Department of Environment and Con...Heart Rhythm Society holds town hall meeting
...s, MD, St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) The town hall meeting is part of HEART RHYTHM 2006, the Heart Rhythm Society's 27th Annual Scientific Sessions, May 17-20, in Boston. What:Health Policy Town Hall Meeting Who:Meeting Chairs: Anne B. Curtis, M.D., President, Heart Rhythm Society Mark D. Car...Despite laws, many pregnant women lack HIV testing
...s, three of which occurred in the relatively small town where he worked. He started working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Florida Department of Health Bureau of HIV officials to focus attention on the importance of testing. Florida laws were changed requiring women be offered te...Rare form of Alzheimer's disease found in Camelford resident
...as been discovered in a resident of Camelford, the town in south west England which bore the brunt of the accidental discharge of 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the local water supply almost 20 years ago. The incident occurred In July 1988, resulting in 20,000 residents across a large area of north ......the weekend, flooding cities and damaging historic town centres. ESA's ERS-2 satellite has been monitoring the situation from space. The medieval city of Hitzacker, located in Lower Saxony about 100 kilometres from the Baltic Sea, was one of the hardest-hit areas with the Elbe reaching 7.63 metres almost...