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EPA Places Stricter Regulations on Airborne Lead
Jeudi 16 Octobre 2008 - 21:00 - 1 mois depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday tightened the regulatory limit on airborne lead for the first time in 30 years, lowering the legal maximum to a tenth of what it was on the grounds that it poses a more serious threat to young children than officials had realized.

NJ flu-shot mandate for preschoolers draws outcry
Jeudi 16 Octobre 2008 - 17:50 - 1 mois depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
-- As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents', not the state's, they contend.

What are vestibular migraines?
Jeudi 16 Octobre 2008 - 15:20 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
Pop singer and wardrobe malfunction poster girl Janet Jackson has been diagnosed with vestibular migraines, a rare form of headache that her publicist blames for her recently canceled "Rock Witchu" concerts. [More]

Elderly Web Surfers Benefit Brains
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 23:30 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Senior citizens across the world love keeping their brains busy with crossword puzzles, sudoku or word jumbles. These brain-teasers actually help keep neurons firing clearly and quickly. Now a new study has a prescription for the Internet age. According to a paper to be released in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, surfing the web can improve brain function in older adults. [More]

Brain signals revive paralyzed muscles in monkeys
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 21:42 - 1 mois depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
NEW YORK -- Monkeys taught to play a computer game were able to overcome wrist paralysis with an experimental device that might lead to new treatments for patients with stroke and spinal cord injury.

As Budgets Tighten, More People Decide Medical Care Can Wait
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 21:00 - 1 mois depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
To monitor the multiple sclerosis attacking Ann Pietrangelo's central nervous system, her doctor recommends an annual MRI. Last year, the 49-year-old Winchester, Va., woman had to pay a $3,000 co-payment to get the imaging done.

Sewer Diving: A Journey Inside Milwaukee's Deep Water Tunnel
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 14:25 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
Since 1994, a more than 26-mile- (42-kilometer-) long tunnel has been keeping Milwaukee's sewage from spilling into Lake Michigan. This deep water tunnel--a holding tank on steroids--comprises two legs roughly 300 feet (90 meters) belowground that can hold nearly 500 million gallons (1.9 billion liters) of sewage and storm water during a downpour. And for the last 14 years it has kept 74 billion gallons (280 billion liters) of wastewater out of Lake Michigan, according to Bill Graffin, a spokesman for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.That's a good thing, not only for water pollution but also for the drinking water plants that must pull H20 from the same lake and spend millions in money and energy cleaning it up. A breakdown in Milwaukee's clean water system in 1993 caused more than 100 deaths as a result of drinking water contaminated with cryptosporidium, a microbe which causes diarrhea, primarily in the young, elderly or infirm. [More]

Go Ahead, Say It: Shit--There, Now We Can Seriously Discuss Sanitation
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 11:00 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
Sanitation doesn't get a lot of headlines but, all told, its absence kills 6,000 children a day, according to British charity Water Aid. And the solution chosen by the developed world--the flush toilet--is running up against limits in the amount of water available to flush away human waste. [More]

From Thrones to Robo-Commodes: The Pitfalls of Inventing a Better Toilet
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 11:00 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
For a Q&A with Rose George, click here.The flush toilet is a curious object. It is the default method of excreta disposal in most of the industrialized, technologically advanced world. It was invented either 500 or 2,000 years ago, depending on opinion. The ancient inhabitants of the mighty Indus Valley, in present-day Pakistan, had privies above channels of running water, whereas King Minos's palace on Crete, 4,000 years ago, fed rainwater through terra-cotta pipes to flush privies below. Toilet historians, of which there are few, attribute the modern flush toilet to Sir John Harington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, who thought his godmother might like something that flushed away her excreta and devised the Ajax, a play on the Elizabethan word "jakes", meaning privy. [More]

EARLY RELEASE: Effect of 17q21 Variants and Smoking Exposure in Early-Onset Asthma
Mercredi 15 Octobre 2008 - 06:56 - 1 mois depuis - Presse spécialisée - New England Journal of Medicin
Background A genomewide association study has shown an association between variants at chromosome 17q21 and an increased risk of asthma. To elucidate the relationship between this locus and disease, we ...

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