Wilderness Medical Society issues important new clinical practice guidelines
Updated guidelines published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine provide most up-to-date and relevant clinical information to frontline providers in wilderness ...
Tag: Environmental Health
Study links three key variables to higher rural mortality rates in US
Credit: Health Affairs Since the 1980s, the all-cause mortality rate in the U.S for rural residents has exceeded that of ...
A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories A perennial inventor of advanced materials has been elected fellow of the American Association for the ...
Agricultural area residents in danger of inhaling toxic aerosols
Overuse of selenium-heavy fertilizers creates airborne, lung-damaging particlesCredit: C M Sabbir Ahmed/UCR Excess selenium from fertilizers and other natural sources ...
Wearable health tech gets efficiency upgrade
Credit: Photo courtesy of Mehmet Ozturk, NC State University. North Carolina State University engineers have demonstrated a flexible device that ...
Antibiotic-resistance in Tanzania is an environmental problem
Credit: WSU Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are prevalent in people, wildlife and the water in northeastern Tanzania, but it's not antibiotic use ...
Helsinki declaration on planetary health calls for commitment from the EU
Credit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare Scientific evidence shows that human activities impact global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation, ...
China health threats likely to increase due to heatwaves
Study reveals climate change will pose deadly threat in China in future as heatwaves become more severe and frequentCredit: University ...
New study to examine impact of environmental exposure on breast cancer risk in young women
UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has ...
What’s in Puget sound? New technique casts a wide net for concerning chemicals
Credit: Ryan Moriarty/UW Tacoma The waters of Puget Sound support many species, including mussels, salmon and killer whales. But researchers ...
The SPR honors Dr. Dani Dumitriu with the New Member Outstanding Science Award
Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Attending Physician, Well-Baby Nursery Columbia University, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry New ...
New study examines mortality costs of air pollution in US
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A team of University of Illinois researchers estimated the mortality costs ...
Local activism can’t be crushed, research finds. At most, it changes target
New research by Fabrizio Perretti and Alessandro Piazza in the Strategic Management Journal finds that when community activists reach their ...
New method detects toxin exposure from harmful algal blooms in human urine
FAU Harbor Branch researcher collaborates with US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCredit: Florida Atlantic University Blooms of toxin-producing algae ...
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