Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 WHO must study Chernobyl's effect on Europe: report Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:43pm ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) should study how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster affected nations other than Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, a report said on Wednesday, citing a lack of data especially for western Europe. "Although areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were heavily contaminated, most of Chernobyl's fallout was deposited outside these countries," said the report, which was carried out by independent researchers and commissioned by Rebecca Harms, a German member of the Greens party in the European Parliament. "Fallout from Chernobyl contaminated about 40 percent of Europe's surface area," the report said, adding that populations outside the three countries faced "twice as many predicted excess cancer deaths". The study predicted roughly 30,000 to 60,000 cancer deaths by the end of this century related to Chernobyl, which it said was significantly higher than estimates by the WHO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ---------- Skeptics warn bird flu fears are overblown Chicken Little alert? Hysteria could sap money from worse health threats http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12358223/ ------------ Study links money with drug experts Pharma funded speakers, consultants and research Thursday, April 20, 2006 BY ED SILVERMANStar-Ledger Staff http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/1145507870120320.xml & coll=1 The doctors who recommended diagnostic standards for the nation's leading psychiatric manual had numerous undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical in dustry, which may have unfairly encouraged the use of prescription medicines to treat such widespread mental illnesses as depression and schizophrenia, according to a study to be released tomorrow. The study found 56 percent of 170 doctors had financial links including research funding, consulting income or serving on a speaker's bureau. The financial associations were obtained by reviewing patent holdings, speaking engagements and financial disclosures in medical journals between 1989 and 2004. -------- Small town India reels under a wave of air pollution Rahul KumarOneWorld South Asia 20 April 2006 http://winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2006/04/20/1542221.html New Delhi: People’s health in small towns across India is taking a heavy beating due to rising air pollution caused by an explosion in the number of vehicles, says latest research by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/131296/1/1893 --------------- Race and medicine Not a black and white question Apr 12th 2006From The Economist print edition Medical research is starting to take account of people's race http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6795348 ------------ Pesticides lead to low IQs? Chemicals affect farm kids: study Don't think pesticides are dangerous? A North Dakota researcher might begin to change that attitude with her discovery that such chemicals may stunt the intellectual development of children. Patricia Moulton, an experimental psychologist in Grand Forks, N.D., will bring her study results to an anti-pesticide forum at an Earth Day event at the University of Winnipeg on Saturday. It's the kind of scare opponents of the city's anti-mosquito malathion say should be taken seriously -- a general discovery that IQs have turned up lower in North Dakota farm kids, who are more closely exposed to pesticides, than in those who live at least a couple of kilometres from farms. "It's certainly concerning," said Moulton, who works at the Centre for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota's school of medicine. "We found a five-point decrease for those kids who are on the farm as opposed to those not on the farm, though it's important to note that they were both within the average range. Average is 85 to 115. The farm kids were 97 on average, and the average for the non-farm kids was 103." http://winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2006/04/20/1542221.html "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. How low will we go? Check out Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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