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NEWS ARCHIVE: health 2008-06-09 - International - health Faeces, Football and the Future: Sanitation is a Golden Goal Over 500,000 tonnes of faeces are openly defecated every day to the environment around the world. That's enough to fill the 30,000-seat Stade de Genève, where the Euro 2008 football tournam 2008-04-08 - International - health Climate change will erode foundations of health Scientists tell us that the evidence the Earth is warming is "unequivocal." Increases in global average air and sea temperature, ice melting and rising global sea levels all help us understa 2008-03-20 - Africa - health Nature's Answers to the Sanitation Challenge At a prison on the East coast of Africa, in-mates are pioneering a sanitation project that is working with nature to neutralize human wastes. The initiative, involving the development of a wetland to 2008-03-03 - International - health Engineers From Across the Country to Address Global Health Issues Every 15 seconds a child dies due to lack of basic sanitation and access to clean drinking water. Engineers are at the forefront of combating these issues by developing sustainable solutions to improv 2007-12-14 - Germany - health Higher cancer risk for children near nuclear power plants A new study on behalf of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection is the first study to show reliable results: the risk of children under 5 years of age to contract leukaemia increases the cl 2007-11-18 - Australia - health Rising allergies trend mystifying When all Natalie Fine could see of her hospitalised six-month-old baby, Lucas, was a small pair of eyes peering out from head-to-toe bandaging, she couldn't help wondering what she had done wrong. 2007-10-31 - China - health Baby born with birth defects every 30 seconds in China Birth defects in China have increased by nearly 40 percent since 2001, according to statistics from the country's birth deformity monitoring center. The figure was cited in a recent report by Jian 2007-09-21 - India - health India’s Private Sector to Gain from Supporting Fight against HIV and AIDS: World Bank Report India’s private sector stands to gain much from supporting interventions aimed at preventing HIV both at the workplace and in local communities, says a World Bank report released today. The repo 2007-03-11 - Canada - health Fish are up to their gills in mercury So much mercury has accumulated in fish that there should be a worldwide public warning about eating seafood contaminated by the dangerous heavy metal, says a report summarizing the latest scientific 2007-02-04 - United States - health Synthetic chemicals may affect two generations' ability to have children Your ability to reproduce — and the health of your child and even your child's children — hinges on an exquisitely timed series of chemical reactions controlled by infinitesimally tiny
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