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Most teen-drinking deaths aren't traffic-related
2013-04-17 17:28:34| Biotech - Topix.net
When it comes to teens and alcohol, drunken driving is not the only thing that should concern parents, according to a new MADD analysis.
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EUR: French study revives alcohol-related deaths debate
2013-04-15 16:38:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
An industry-funded research institute is calling for better methods to evaluate mortality attributable to alcohol, after the publication of a study that claimed alcohol causes 49,000 premature deaths per year in France.
United Kingdom: 'Sticky' birds' deaths 'tragic'
2013-04-15 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Up to 200 birds might have died after being covered in a sticky substance, the RSPB has said. Hundreds of birds have been found on beaches in Devon and Cornwall since they started to appear on Wednesday. One woman said she found more than 150 on a beach in south Cornwall on Monday. Dog walkers collected about 20 dead birds from Par Beach in Cornwall on Monday morning. Sheryll Murray, the Conservative MP for South East Cornwall, said it was "tragic". Alison Fogg said 157 dead seabirds...
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Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
2013-04-13 02:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025. Together, these two diseases account for around 30 percent of all deaths of children under five years old, around two million every year. According to new data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), most such deaths are taking place due to "piecemeal"...
Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Chinese Deaths in 2010, Study Says
2013-04-02 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Air pollution contributed to the premature deaths of more than 1.2 million people in China in 2010, or about 40 percent of early deaths worldwide caused by dirty air, according to a newly released analysis. The findings, based on data from a study on the distribution and causes of death globally, categorized ambient particulate matter pollution as the fourth-leading factor in premature deaths in China, behind dietary risks, high blood pressure, and smoking. Worldwide, air pollution was the seventh-leading...
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