Breaking news on water_quality
Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Change Impacted On People's Health published
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:00 PDT
A study featured in the May 16 edition of JAMA shows that changes in air pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics were related to changes in biomarkers of systemic inflammation and thrombosis, in addition to measure of cardiovascular physiology in healthy young people...
Understanding The Cellular Secrets Of Plant Fatty Acid Production published
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
A curious twist in a family of plant proteins called chalcone-isomerase recently was discovered by Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientist Joseph Noel and colleagues at Iowa State University led by Eve Wurtele...
Any And All Toxic Materials Identified By "Dip Chip" Technology On-The-Go published
Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:00 PDT
From man-made toxic chemicals such as industrial by-products to poisons that occur naturally, a water or food supply can be easily contaminated. And for every level of toxic material ingested, there is some level of bodily response, ranging from minor illness to painful certain death. Biosensors have long been used to safeguard against exposure to toxic chemicals...
New UV Disinfection Device published
Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT
Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ranging from drinking-water treatment to sterilizing surgical tools...
Study Of Indoor Air Quality Risks In United Arab Emirates Is Culturally Sensitive published
Fri, 11 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT
The rapid shift from nomadic life to modern-day culture in the United Arab Emirates has exposed residents to significant indoor air quality risks that can lead to respiratory illness, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Heart Attack Death Rates Higher When Patient Lives Near Highway published
Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00 PDT
Major highways pose a considerable risk to heart attack survivors living in close vicinity. Findings of the study, published in the May 7 issue of Circulation, report that researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conclude that housing developments need to be isolated from areas with heavy traffic...
Death Risks Higher For Heart Attack Survivors Living Near Major Roadways published
Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Heart attack survivors who live about 100 meters (328 feet) or less from a major U.S. roadway face increased risk of death from all causes, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation...
Environmental Epigenetics And Ovarian Disease published
Mon, 07 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT
Washington State University researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations. WSU reproductive biologist Michael Skinner and his laboratory colleagues looked at how a fungicide, pesticide, plastic, dioxin and hydrocarbon mixtures affected a gestating rat's progeny for multiple generations...
Nanomaterials That Can Cause Oxidative Damage To Cells Quickly Identified By New Method published
Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Engineered nanomaterials, prized for their unique semiconducting properties, are already prevalent in everyday consumer products - from sunscreens, cosmetics and paints to textiles and solar batteries - and economic forecasters are predicting the industry will grow into $1 trillion business in the next few years...
Clean Drinking Water For Everyone published
Thu, 03 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT
Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it's muddy. It's easy enough to purify clear water...
Tackling Childhood Disabilities Through Environment published
Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines...
Rapid Test Strips Detect Bacterial Contamination In Swimming Water published
Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Urban beach closures due to coliform outbreaks have become disturbing signs of summer, yet water-testing technology has never been fast enough to keep up with changing conditions, nor accessible enough to check all waters. Now, researchers at McMaster University have developed a rapid testing method using a simple paper strip that can detect E. coli in recreational water within minutes...
In Ethiopia, Water Treatments Alone Are Not Enough To Combat Fluorosis published
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT
Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study...
Living In A City Center Doubles Risk Of Calcium Build-Up In Arteries published
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine...
Common Environmental Contaminant Linked To Rapid Breast Cancer Growth published
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Studies by researchers at Dominican University of California show that breast cancer cells become increasingly aggressive the longer they are exposed to small concentrations of cadmium, a heavy metal commonly found in cosmetics, food, water and air particles...
Air Pollution Kills More People Than Automobile Accidents, UK published
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Every year, 13,000 people in the UK die a premature death due to emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants, according to a MIT study published in this month's issue of Environmental Science and Technology. MIT's Steven Barrett and Steve Yim, MIT post doc and co-author of the study decided to examine the country's air quality in view of the recent events in the U.K...
Vehicle Exhaust Causes More Premature Deaths Than Car Accidents In The UK published
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
In a study appearing this month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, MIT researchers report that emissions from cars, trucks, planes and powerplants cause 13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom each year. The researchers analyzed data from 2005, the most recent year for which information is available...
Lime Juice, Sunlight Help Make Water Safer published
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:00:00 PDT
In low-income countries, one way to make drinking water safer is to expose it to sunlight, but now scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggest adding lime juice can make the method more effective. They write about their findings in the April 2012 issue of American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene...
Safer Drinking Water Using Sunlight And Lime Juice published
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT
Looking for an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water? According to a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, sunlight and a twist of lime might do the trick...
Studying Pollution Effects On Human Health With The Help Of Green-Glowing Zebrafish published
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created by a team from the University of Exeter, the fish makes it easier than ever before to see where in the body environmental chemicals act and how they affect health...
Increased Risk Of Hospitalization For Lung, Heart Disease Following Long-Term Exposure To Air Pollution published
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT
Older adults may be at increased risk of being hospitalized for lung and heart disease, stroke, and diabetes following long-term exposure to fine-particle air pollution, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). It is the first study to look at the link between long-term effects of exposure to fine particles in the air and rates of hospital admissions...
Increased Mortality Risk Following Long-Term Exposure To Silica Dust published
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT
Industrial workers who have been chronically exposed to silica dust are at substantially higher risk of death from all causes than workers who have not been exposed. Furthermore, the risk of death, especially from lung and cardiovascular diseases increases with increasing exposure, according to a study from Chinese researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology published
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT
Surprising Study Results: More Cattle Means Less Lyme Disease The abundance of cattle is the primary influence on the prevalence of two tick-borne pathogens, according to a paper in the April Applied and Environmental Microbiology. One of these, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and the other, Borrelia burgdorferi, causes Lyme disease...
Spreading Fungal Diseases Threaten Food Security, Biodiversity published
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT
The spread of existing and emerging fungal diseases in plants and animals poses a threat to global food security and biodiversity, according to a new study whose authors suggest halting fungal rot in the most important crops could feed an extra 600 million people a year...
Method To Detect Stealthy, 'Hypervirulent' Salmonella Strains published
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT
A recent discovery of "hypervirulent" Salmonella bacteria has given UC Santa Barbara researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff a means to potentially prevent food poisoning outbreaks from these particularly powerful strains...
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