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Environmental Pollution: An Under-recognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conclusions Patterns of disease are changing rapidly in LMICs. Pollution-related chronic diseases are becoming more common. This shift presents a particular problem for children, who are proportionately more heavily exposed than are adults to environmental pollutants and for whom these exposures are especially dangerous. Better quantification of environmental exposures and stepped-up efforts to understand how to prevent exposures that cause disease are needed in LMICs and around the globe. To confront the global problem of disease caused by pollution, improved programs of public health monitoring and environmental protecti...
Source: EHP Research - March 1, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication March 2016 Source Type: research

The Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock: 'In space, race doesn't matter'
The space scientist who is about to replace Patrick Moore on how Spock, Sherlock Holmes and physics inspired herAs a child, space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock was allowed to stay up late and watch one programme, The Sky at Night. She mainly grew up in light-polluted London, unable to see much outside the window of her family's council flat in Camden, but still she had a fascination with space. Some long winter nights, walking home from school across Hampstead Heath, she would look up and think, "Patrick talked about that constellation, I can see it now."Patrick Moore presented the astronomy programme for more than 50 yea...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 19, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Emine Saner Tags: The Guardian Astronomy Educational TV Culture Television & radio Media Star Trek Features Patrick Moore The news on TV Interviews Factual TV Science Space amp; radio Source Type: news