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EPA head affirms climate change public health threat
2014-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rhode Island Public Radio: Climate change is one of the countrys most serious public health threats, said Gina McCarthy, the head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She spoke to a large crowd of local energy and environmental leaders at an annual conference today hosted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. McCarthy shared one example of a direct public health threat. What you have to realize is that one in 10 kids in the United States of America has asthma, she said. Why am I mentioning asthma related to climate change?...
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IBM Research Breakthrough Helps Public Health Officials Improve Food Safety
2014-07-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Novel learning system combines petabytes of retail data with public health case reports to identify contaminated food sources, shorten intervention times and limit the spread of disease outbreaks<br /> <br /> SAN JOSE, Calif. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a first-of-a-kind system that is designed to help food retailers, distributors and public health officials predict the most likely contaminated food sources and accelerate the investigation of food-borne disease outbreaks. Using novel ...This story is related to the following:Retail Software |
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Report: Climate Change Creates Public Health Costs
2014-05-06 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Melissa Block speaks with Brian Stone, director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, about the public health effects of climate change.
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EFSA Launches Public Consultation on Risks to Human Health on Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA)
2014-01-24 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
Increases to Public Health Funding in Omnibus Spending Bill
2014-01-15 23:19:59| Biotech - Topix.net
The National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will all be spared from further cuts if Congress passes the omnibus spending package.
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