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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change may have helped spread Zika virus, according to WHO scientists
The outbreak of Zika virus in Central and South America is of immediate concern to pregnant women in the region, but for some experts the situation is a glimpse of the sort of public health threats that will unfold due to climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change to boost health problems
There will be more itching, sneezing, swelling and gasping for breath as Pennsylvania’s climate shifts and residents are exposed to more poison ivy, stinging insects, pollen allergies and lyme-disease-bearing ticks, and experience increased asthma, respiratory disease and heat-related deaths. That was the assessment of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Could climate change be the culprit in spread of Zika virus?
The Zika virus sweeping across South America may be only one of several long-dormant infections that will resurface in coming years because of climate change and deforestation, says a Johns Hopkins University neurologist now leading research efforts in Colombia, one of the countries hardest hit by the disease. According to Dr. Carlos ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Eat Your Children’s Food
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issued what I consider to be a truly stellar, 572-page report. We are now in a period of cogitation, consideration and commentary during which everyone with skin in the game gets to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture why they should embrace or renounce specific elements in the report.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought, climate change increase intensity of California wildfires
Because of the continuing California drought, authorities predicted another dangerous year, and the Sherpa Fire is one of 1,800 wildfires state and forest service firefighters have battled since January. In a June 1 Letter to the Editor, “SLO County tackles the health effects of climate change,” rising temperatures, frequent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ease climate change impact on young, poor, vulnerable: medical doctors to new leaders
The Philippine College of Physicians supports the call of other groups to craft and implement policies that will ease the burden of climate change impact on the health of the young, the poor, and other vulnerable sectors.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Epidemiologist: Climate Change Is A Health Crisis
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem. If you ask Michael McGeehin, climate change is a health crisis. McGeehin is an epidemiologist who spent more than 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He developed the CDC’s Climate Change Program. McGeehin was recently in Miami for an international ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fires in West Have Residents Gasping on the Soot Left Behind
The air in the San Joaquin Valley hangs thick with gray-brown dust, a result of the state’s largest fire, which has burned through more than 160 square miles in the nearby hills. The fire has so far spared lives and homes. But it has exposed one of the obscured effects that four years of record […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Focusing on health in disaster risk management
Traditional views of disaster management were turned on their head by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction when it was adopted by UN member states on March 18 last year to become a foundation stone of the new 2030 Development Agenda. The agreement adopted at that Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Geostellar Launches Nationwide Solar Program for Health Care System Facilities, Employees and Patients
Geostellar, the nation’s first and largest online solar marketplace, today announced at Intersolar North America the launch of Solar.Clinic, a program for health care systems to go solar and offer solar energy to their employees, patients and community members. Working in partnership with Health Care Without Harm and Practice ...