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U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Sets First National Limits to Reduce Mercury and Other Toxic Emissions from Cement Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing final rules that will protect Americans’ health by cutting emissions of mercury, particle pollution and other harmful pollutants from Portland cement manufacturing, the third-largest source of mercury air emissions in the United States.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:35 — admin

Decontaminating Dangerous Drywall: Nanomaterial in novel home-air treatment counters hazards from toxic drywall

A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:31 — admin

TDR Study featured by WHO Shows Effectiveness Of Community-Directed Interventions in Delivering Health Care In Africa

One of the greatest challenges in achieving the Millennium Development Goals to cut infant and maternal mortality and reduce the disease burden lies in ensuring that available health interventions reach the people who most need them.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:27 — admin

Access to New Interventions: Implementation Research Key To Access To Disease Interventions

TDR in conjunction with the Ugandan Ministry of Health organized a meeting in Kampala 28-30 June on the use of implementation research (IR) to increase access to improved tools against infectious diseases and map existing and new strategies.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:27 — admin

Study Reveals a Secret to the Success of Disease-Causing Microbes: discovery may generate new strategies to fight serious human diseases

A study published in the July 23 issue of Cell identifies the mechanism used by several types of common, virulent microbes to infect plants and cause devastating blights.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:20 — admin

New Way to Conquer Disease-Causing Nematodes in Flies has Implications for Human Diseases

It has been a basic principle of evolution for more than a century that plants and animals can adapt genetically in ways that help them better survive and reproduce. Now, in a paper published in the journal Science, University of Rochester biologist John Jaenike and colleagues document a clear example of a new mechanism for evolution.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:01 — admin

Evolutionary timeline determined for malaria parasites in mammals, birds, reptiles

Scientists have determined the evolutionary timeline for the microscopic parasites that cause one of the world's most widespread infectious diseases: malaria.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:00 — admin

Burkina Faso: United Nations-Backed Project Boosts Education, Health Care For Women Farmers

A United Nations-backed pilot programme that supplies electric generators to rural women farmers in Burkina Faso, freeing them from lengthy chores so that they can devote more time to education, childcare and health care, is to be adopted on a national scale.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:53 — admin

President's Cancer Panel Releases Report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now

The President' Cancer Panel Executive Summary states that "Despite overall decreases in incidence and mortality, cancer continues to shatter and steal the lives of Americans.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:53 — admin

Disposal of Hazardous Medical Wastes Targeted in $40 Million Joint UN-India Project

The United Nations agency that promotes industrial development for poverty  reduction and environmental sustainability has teamed up with the Government of India in a $40-million pilot project to help the country’s healthcare system dispose of hazardous medical waste.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:42 — admin

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