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Using Smarter Stoves to Combat Household Air Pollution
By Bjørn LomborgMar 16 2016 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh)When it comes to cooking indoors over open fires, the harmful health effects can be equal to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. This indoor air pollution plagues nearly nine out of every 10 Bangladeshi households, which use wood and other biofuels to cook inside. Over time, exposure to smoke from indoor cooking leads to deadly diseases such as lung cancer, stroke, and heart disease. This is why it’s the most deadly environmental problem in the world. In Bangladesh, such indoor air pollution is responsible for 10-15 percent of all deaths.It may seem obvious ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bjorn Lomborg Tags: Asia-Pacific Environment Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

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

This Buddhist Monk Is An Unsung Hero In The World's Climate Fight
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Identifying and Describing the Impact of Cyclone, Storm and Flood Related Disasters on Treatment Management, Care and Exacerbations of Non-communicable Diseases and the Implications for Public Health
Conclusion Cyclone, flood and storm related disasters impact on treatment management and overall care for people with NCDs. This results in an increased risk of exacerbation of illness or even death. The interruption may be caused by a range of factors, such as damaged transport routes, reduced health services, loss of power and evacuations. The health impact varies according to the NCD. For people with chronic respiratory diseases, a disaster increases the risk of acute exacerbation. Meanwhile, for people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes there is an increased risk of their illness exacerbating, which can ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - September 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: jc164421 Source Type: research

Ibudilast reverses the decrease in the synaptic signaling protein phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 1 (PEBP1) produced by chronic methamphetamine intake in rats*
Methamphetamine is a potent psychostimulant drug which has been gaining popularity worldwide (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009). From a pathological standpoint, chronic methamphetamine abuse has devastating effects on the neural system and predisposes people to movement disorders, stroke, seizures, aggressiveness, memory deficits, and psychosis (Hsieh et al., 2014; Panenka et al., 2013; Yamamoto et al., 2010). These changes can remain for years after discontinued use and may reflect risk factors for relapse (Grant et al., 2012; Scott et al., 2007).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - April 29, 2015 Category: Addiction Authors: Sergios Charntikov, Steven T. Pittenger, Ishwor Thapa, Dhundy R. Bastola, Rick A. Bevins, Gurudutt Pendyala Tags: Full length article Source Type: research

Neuropsychiatric disorders among Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan, 2012-2013: A retrospective, cohort study (P2.324)
CONCLUSIONS:There is a need for long-term planning and financing for neuropsychiatric disorders traditionally considered outside of refugee health. Possible interventions may include stroke risk factor reduction and targeted medication donations for multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and schizophrenia. Study Supported by: No funding recieved.Disclosure: Dr. McKenzie has nothing to disclose. Dr. Spiegel has nothing to disclose. Dr. Khalifa has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mateen has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: McKenzie, E., Spiegel, P., Khalifa, A., Mateen, F. Tags: Global Neurology Source Type: research

Neuropsychiatric disorders among Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan: a retrospective cohort study 2012–2013
Conclusions: Neuropsychiatric disorders, including those traditionally considered outside the purview of refugee health, are an important burden to health among Iraqi and Syrian refugees. Possible interventions could include stroke risk factor reduction and targeted medication donations for multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and schizophrenia.
Source: Conflict and Health - March 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Erica McKenziePaul SpiegelAdam KhalifaFarrah Mateen Source Type: research

Impact of Human Development Index on the profile and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome
Conclusions Clinical patient profiles differed substantially by country HDI groupings. Lower unadjusted event rates in medium-HDI countries may be explained by younger age and lower comorbidity burden among these countries’ patients. This heterogeneity in patient recruitment across country HDI groupings may have important implications for future global ACS trial design. Trial registration number NCT00699998.
Source: Heart - January 29, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Roy, A., Roe, M. T., Neely, M. L., Cyr, D. D., Zamoryakhin, D., Fox, K. A. A., White, H. D., Armstrong, P. W., Ohman, E. M., Prabhakaran, D. Tags: Open access, Editor's choice, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Acute coronary syndromes Healthcare delivery, economics and global health Source Type: research

Unpredictable, unpreventable and impersonal medicine: global disaster response in the 21st century
Abstract The United Nations has recognized the devastating consequences of “unpredictable, unpreventable and impersonal” disasters—at least US $2 trillion in economic damage and more than 1.3 million lives lost from natural disasters in the last two decades alone. In many disasters (both natural and man-made) hundreds—and in major earthquakes, thousands—of lives are lost in the first days following the event because of the lack of medical/surgical facilities to treat those with potentially survivable injuries. Disasters disrupt and destroy not only medical facilities in the disaster zone but also infras...
Source: EPMA Journal - January 22, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

I'm a Person With a Disability and My Body Is Not a Mistake
This article is an excerpt of writings regarding body acceptance while living with a disability. As a young woman in my early twenties with a physical disability, I've come to accept and own the body I've been given regardless of society's pressures and conception of able-bodied beauty. Life has given me twists and turns, and at times I've been confused as to which way is up. People have told me that I'm weak -- that I won't measure up to anything, that my dreams cannot be fulfilled. And science cannot treat or stop a progressive disease. I've been left to fend for myself. My innocence stripped away and abandoned as a c...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Groups Push Obama to Clarify U.S. Abortion Funding for Wartime Rape
Survivors at a workshop in Pader, northern Uganda. Thousands of women were raped during Uganda’s civil war but there have been few government efforts to assist them. Credit: Rosebell Kagumire/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Dec 10 2014 (IPS)Nearly two dozen health, advocacy and faith groups are calling on President Barack Obama to take executive action clarifying that U.S. assistance can be used to fund abortion services for women and girls raped in the context of war and conflict.The groups gathered Tuesday outside of the White House to draw attention to what they say is an ongoing misreading by politicians as well as h...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carey L. Biron Tags: Active Citizens Aid Armed Conflicts Civil Society Crime & Justice Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies North America Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Abortio Source Type: news

How a Small Tribe Turned Tragedy into Opportunity
An Irula couple fishes in the creeks of the Pichavaram Mangrove Forest in Tamil Nadu. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSBy Malini ShankarPICHAVARAM, India, Nov 13 2014 (IPS)When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.Millions lost their jobs, food security and traditional livelihoods and many have spent the last decade trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. But for a small tribe in southern India, the tsunami didn’t bring devastation; instead, it brought hope.Numbering some 25,000 people, th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Malini Shankar Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Education Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights Indigenous Rights Labour Natu Source Type: news

U.N.: Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 Or Face ‘Irreversible’ Climate Impact
Greenhouse gas emissions may have to cease by the end of the century to keep global temperatures from reaching levels many scientists consider dangerous, the United Nations’ latest climate assessment suggests. “Science has spoken,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in Copenhagen at Sunday’s launch of the fourth and final report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CBS News reports. “There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side.” The IPCC assessment, which incorporated the findings of three other reports over the past 13 month...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - November 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nolan Feeney Tags: Uncategorized Ban Ki-Moon climate change global warming John Kerry United Nations Source Type: news

Title: Beyond Malnutrition: The Role of Sanitation in Stunted Growth
Charles W. Schmidt, MS, an award-winning science writer from Portland, ME, has written for Discover Magazine, Science, and Nature Medicine. Background image: WHO About This Article open Citation: Schmidt CW. 2014. Beyond malnutrition: the role of sanitation in stunted growth. Environ Health Perspect 122:A298–A303; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.122-A298 News Topics: Children’s Health, Diet and Nutrition, Gastrointestinal Health, International Environmental Health, Microbial Agents, Musculoskeletal Health, Drinking Water Quality, Sanitation Published: 1 November 2014 PDF Version (2.8 MB) Worldwide, stuntin...
Source: EHP Research - October 31, 2014 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Featured Focus News Children's Health Diet and Nutrition Drinking Water Quality Gastrointestinal Health International Environmental Health Microbial Agents Musculoskeletal Health November 2014 Sanitation Source Type: research

Cardiology leaders call for global prevention of heart disease, stroke
Heart disease and stroke contribute to 30 percent of global deaths, more than all infectious and parasitic diseases combined, and 11 cardiovascular organizations are calling for the United Nations to address prevention of heart disease and other non-communicable diseases.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 26, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news