Water Resources

 Deadly and still free

An international meeting on phasing out deadly pesticides has just come a cropper

Publication Date: 
14/05/2000
Down to Earth
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Pesticides, Health Effects, Environmental Health, Germany
Health

Paan without tobacco: An independent risk factor for oral cancer

Oral cancer is the second most common cancer in women and the third most common in men in Pakistan. Tobacco is smoked and chewed extensively in Pakistan. Paan is a quid of piper betel leaf that contains areca nut, lime, condiment, sweeteners, and sometimes tobacco, which is also used extensively. We did this study to clarify the independent association of paan and oral cancer.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2000
Anwar Merchant, Syed S. M. Husain, Mervyn Hosain & et al
International Journal of Cancer
86
1
128
Tags:
Tobacco, Tobacco Related Cancer, Health Effects, Betel Leaf, Pakistan, South Asia, Environmental Health
Industry

 Playing God

The creation of the first artificial dna gives rise to endless possibilities

Publication Date: 
27/02/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Environmental Health, Genetic Resources, Biotechnology, Research, United States Of America (US)
India

 Bad environment makes the poor more susceptible to diseases

Since 1997, V Ramaswamy has been working in Priya Manna Basti in Howrah a town inhabited by railway porters under the Howrah pilot project on behalf of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He spoke to

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Health Effects, Environmental Health, Public Participation, Developing Countries
India

 Packaging plastic policy

It is time we examined the whole issue of packaging, plastics and recycling

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Health Effects, Plastics, Rag Pickers, Environmental Health, Waste Recycling
Air Pollution

 Damage control

The Union labour ministry discusses the safety and health problems of the workers at Alang

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Shipping, Health Effects, Workers, Environmental Health, Occupational Health
India

 Micro is big. Talk nano

Researchers studying the health effects of tiny particles from vehicular emissions are finding out more on a new threat: nanoparticles

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Diesel, Environmental Health, Research
Industry

 Furore over GMOs

environmental activists severely criticised the British government after it refused to rule out commercial farming of controversial genetically modified ( gm) crops before the three-year

Publication Date: 
30/10/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environmental Health, Crop Biodiversity, Genetic Engineering, United Kingdom (UK)
India

 Playing with poison

It is better to act early, than wait for ddt to take its toll on humans

Publication Date: 
30/10/1999
Down to Earth
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19991031
0
Tags:
Health Effects, Malaria, Vector Control, DDT, Environmental Health, India, Toxins
Industry

 Summer borns are healthier

The height of people appears to depend on the season of their birth. Jan Wohlfahrt and his team from the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, studied 1,166,206 children born

Publication Date: 
14/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Medical Research, Environmental Health

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