Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies
This article appeared in Guardian Weekly, which incorporates material from Le MondeFranceClimate changeFarmingAgricultureBeautyNicole Vulsertheguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 4, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nicole Vulser Tags: Farming Fashion Features Climate change Beauty Life and style Guardian Weekly France Environment Business Agriculture Source Type: news
First-ever book on Mekong rattan species aims to promote sustainable practices
(The New York Botanical Garden) Rattan, a type of climbing palm used to make furniture and many other products, is the basis of a multi-billion-dollar industry that provides vital economic support for communities across Southeast Asia, but its natural stocks are in decline in many places. A collaborative research effort by The New York Botanical Garden and the World Wildlife Fund catalogs for the first time the 65 rattan species found in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and details the data and management practices necessary to harvest rattan sustainably. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 13, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news
More Women Weigh Risks and Rewards of At-Home Birthing
Midwives assume the role of the doctor and replaces the more clinical hospital setting with holistic and homeopathic methods. Credit: BigstockBy Lorraine FarquharsonNEW YORK, Jan 27 2014 (IPS) It was a long and hard 10 hours of labour.
“Don’t give up,” Carolina Pinheiro recalls her doula urging, as she provided both physical and emotional support.“If you feel safer in a hospital then do that, but there should not be an assumption that hospitals are safer than home. " -- Carolina Pinheiro
Pinheiro says she chose at-home birthing with midwife assistance because she wanted a safe environment, plus the gentle care the ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 27, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lorraine Farquharson Tags: Featured Headlines Health North America TerraViva Europe TerraViva United Nations Women's Health midwives Pregnancy United States Source Type: news
Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages - 30 October 2013
SAVANNAKHET, Lao People’s Democratic Republic — Kids grow up fast in some remote villages in southern Laos. With limited options to attend school, many opt to marry at age 14 or 15, or even younger, and start having children of their own. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 15, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Typhoon Haiyan the biggest yet as world's tropical storms gather force
Haiyan may be strongest ever to hit land so far but as the oceans warm the power of storms is risingWhen typhoon Haiyan - known in the Philippines as Yolanda - pounded into the islands of Samar and Leyte at 4.40am after picking up speed on a 900-mile track across the Pacific, the US navy's warning centre, JTWC, in Honolulu, calculated its winds to be gusting at up to 235mph (380kph).This would make it the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded and possibly the strongest to have ever hit land. By comparison, St Jude, the storm that hit in southern England last month, had winds gusting to 99mph.As Filipino commun...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 8, 2013 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal Tags: theguardian.com Asia Pacific Meteorology Analysis World news Natural disasters and extreme weather Philippines Hurricanes Science Source Type: news
Teenage Pregnancy is Way of Life in Remote Laotian Villages - 30 October 2013
SAVANNAKHET, Lao People’s Democratic Republic — Kids grow up fast in some remote villages in southern Laos. With limited options to attend school, many opt to marry at age 14 or 15, or even younger, and start having children of their own. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - November 6, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Anti-cancer vaccine for Laos
Girls in Laos are to receive a cervical cancer vaccine (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Grow old in Sweden, but avoid an Afghan retirement, data shows
Global AgeWatch index measures pensions and other provisions for older people – with some surprising resultsSweden is the best country for older people; Afghanistan the worst – but general affluence does not necessarily mean better conditions for the over-60s, according to the first global index on ageing.While Sweden's top ranking – followed by Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada – may be predictable, the Global AgeWatch index throws up some surprising results.The US, the world's richest country, languishes in eighth place, while the UK fails to make the top 10, residing instead at No 13. Sri Lanka ranks 3...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 30, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Mark Tran Tags: theguardian.com Biology News Older people Society Pensions Money Ageing Retirement planning Retirement age Global development Business Science Source Type: news
Healthcare In Myanmar
It would be a mild understatement to say that over the last fifty years, healthcare outcomes in Myanmar have not kept pace with those of its neighbors. As the last country in Southeast Asia to open to foreign investment, by 2013 healthcare in Myanmar was suffering badly from over fifty years of neglect. When the World Health Organization (WHO) last ranked Myanmar’s system against its global counterparts, the country was pegged dead last out of 190 countries with respect to what the WHO calls “overall health system performance.” Myanmar spends roughly 2% of its GDP on healthcare; impoverished Laos sp...
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 19, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Benjamin Shobert Source Type: news
Hepatitis B Vaccine Birthdose Practices in a Country Where Hepatitis B is Endemic — Laos, December 2011–February 2012
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 26, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Laos and Nicaragua Protect High-Risk Persons from Influenza, with Help from Donor Coalition and CDC
(Source: CDC Flu updates)
Source: CDC Flu updates - June 18, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Depression among last-year high school students in Vientiane, capital city of Lao PDR - Phanthavong P, Naphayvong P, Reinharz D.
This study aimed at estim... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Vets Gambling Part II
After fighting in Vietnam with incursions into Laos and Cambodia, Gordie Greco came home addicted to gambling and alcohol. Working in the Las Vegas casinos, he later added cocaine. Today he's living clean and sober, but his life-long addiction to gambling (including the stock market) was the hardest to beat. He estimates he gambled away at least one-quarter of his salary read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - May 29, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Eric Newhouse Tags: Addiction Health Self-Help Stress 4th infantry division bets big time comrades demons enemy fire friendly fire greco incursions lottery ticket man company michigan state moments of silence mortar support nbsp nbsp nbsp Source Type: news
