News tagged with international journal of health geographics
Blood ties -- younger generation more willing to donate blood
Youth may not bring wisdom but, according to a new study from Canada, it does bring generosity as young adults are found to be the most likely to donate blood. The research, published in BioMed Central's open access International Jo ...
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Global warming linked to European viral epidemic
An epidemic of the viral disease nephropathia epidemica (NE) has been linked to increases in the vole population caused by hotter summers, milder winters and increased seedcrop production by broadleaf trees. Research published ...
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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Overfishing leaves swaths of Mediterranean barren
Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, an unprecedented ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Wildlife and cows can be partners, not enemies, in search for food
(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University researchers are leading an effort to put to pasture the long-held convention of cattle ranching that wild animals compete with cows for food.
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Aboriginal Australians were the first explorers: Genome study rewrites the history books
An international team of researchers has for the first time sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian. They have shown that modern day Aboriginal Australians are the direct descendents ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Scientists can track origin of shark fins using 'zip codes' in their DNA
An international team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has used DNA to determine that groups of dusky sharks (Carcharhinus obscurus) and copper ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Shunning the sun may be harmful to your health
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with more than a million new cases diagnosed each year. But efforts to prevent it might be creating a health crisis of another sort.
Dec 21, 2010 |
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New study examines immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrer of malaria
A new study led by University of Notre Dame biologist Nora Besansky suggests that the mosquitoes' immune response to malaria parasites, mediated by a gene called "TEP1," is one of the traits that differ between ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Cholera strain in Haiti matches bacteria from south Asia
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, with others from the United States and Haiti, has determined that the strain ...
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Dec 09, 2010 |
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Arsenic-polluted water toxic to Bangladesh economy
The well-reported arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh – called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history" by the World Health Organization and known to be responsible for a host of slow-developing ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Half of those travelling internationally not aware of potential health risks
More than 30 million people in the United States travel to resource-limited areas of the world each year. This global mobility may contribute to the spread of infectious diseases – such as influenza, measles, and meningitis ...
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimination plan
Two University of Florida researchers and their international colleagues have used mathematical models and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease.
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Oct 29, 2010 |
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