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World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery Workers Have Had Increased Incidence of Certain Types of Cancer
December 18, 2012 — Among rescue and recovery workers exposed to the dust, debris, and fumes following the World Trade Center terrorist attack, there was an increased incidence of prostate and thyroid cancers and ... > full story -
Internet Outages in the US Doubled During Hurricane Sandy
December 18, 2012 — Scientists who track Internet outages throughout the world noted a spike in outages due to Hurricane Sandy, with almost twice as much of the Internet down in the US as ... > full story -
New Process to Make One-Way Flu Vaccine Discovered
December 18, 2012 — A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered. Researchers found a way to make the one-time vaccine by using recombinant genetic engineering technology that does ... > full story -
Flesh-Eating Fungus Responsible for Five Deaths in Wake of Massive Tornado
December 14, 2012 — A fast growing, flesh-eating fungus killed five people following a massive tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., according to two new ... > full story -
Will Climate Change Cause Water Conflict?
December 12, 2012 — Climate change plays a secondary role in the origin or aggravation of social conflicts linked to water. Political discourses must avoid directly linking climate change with social conflict and human ... > full story -
Long-Term Public Health Support Needed to Tackle Infectious Disease Outbreaks
December 11, 2012 — Outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as swine flu (H1N1) threaten global health and should be considered by funding agencies and humanitarian organizations as development issues rather than ... > full story -
Does Changing the Price of Medicine Influence Consumers' Perceived Health Risk?
December 11, 2012 — Consumers assume their risk of getting a serious illness is higher when medications are cheaper because they believe that prices for life-saving products are based on need and not profit, according ... > full story -
Citizen Science More Than a Century Later: Ordinary People Go Online to Track Gulf Oil Spill
December 10, 2012 — Researchers report on a new form of "citizen science," concluding that it can help assess health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The researcher studied ... > full story -
Bugs Without Borders: Researchers Track the Emergence and Global Spread of Healthcare Associated Clostridium Difficile
December 9, 2012 — Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly related strains of the bacterium rather ... > full story -
Pacific Northwest and Himalayas Could Experience Major Earthquakes, Geophysicists Say
December 4, 2012 — Recent research by scientists focused on geologic features and activity in the Himalayas and Pacific Northwest that could mean those areas are primed for major ... > full story
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