Senegal's small scale gold miners still use poisonous mercury: How to reduce the harm
"Do not fish in these waters." "Contains high levels of mercury."
Environment
Jan 8, 2024
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News tagged with public health interventions
Study suggests partisan politics could help public health
Partisan politics played a role in exacerbating public health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study suggests that partisan politics could also play a role in addressing those challenges—at least when it comes ...
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2023
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Community-based interventions to prevent violence against women and girls are cost-effective
Community-based interventions to prevent violence against women and girls are cost-effective, could improve population health. Investing in established community-based programs, such as community workshops, to prevent violence ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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Ecologists detect warning signals of malaria outbreak
Researchers at the University of Georgia have demonstrated that disease surveillance data can be used to predict certain infectious disease outbreaks. The team detected early warning signals of a 1993 resurgence of malaria ...
Ecology
Jun 30, 2020
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Get your hands dirty for health
Billions of people using the Earth's resources and changing or destroying ecosystems are not only creating the global environmental and climate crisis, but also compromising human health and long-term survival of our species, ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2020
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Stronger pandemic response yields better economic recovery
With much of the U.S. in shutdown mode to limit the spread of the Covid-19 disease, a debate has sprung up about when the country might "reopen" commerce, to limit economic fallout from the pandemic. But as a new study co-authored ...
Economics & Business
Apr 1, 2020
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Breakthrough in rapid, mass screening for the Ebola virus
A new, faster and safer way of diagnosing the Ebola virus has been developed by an academic from Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Biochemistry
Sep 28, 2017
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Moods, but not depression, found contagious in adolescent social networks
New research suggests that both good and bad moods can be 'picked up' from friends, but depression can't.
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2017
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Conservation not an effective tool for reducing infectious disease in people, study finds
Conservation projects that protect forests and encourage a diversity of plants and animals can provide many benefits to humans.
Ecology
Apr 24, 2017
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Pregnant women and new mothers feel watched and judged
In a small study published in Families Relationships and Society, researchers interviewed mother-grandmother pairs and found that community surveillance of pregnant women and infant feeding had significantly increased between ...
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2017
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