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Use of coal power costs Alberta $300-million a year in health expenses: Report
2013-03-27 14:38:34| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The use of coal power in Alberta adds $300-million a year to health expenses, a factor that heavily increases coal's true cost, a new report has found. Coal pollution also leads to nearly 100 premature deaths, 700 emergency-room visits and 80 hospital admissions each year, as well as triggering asthma attacks, the report said. Jointly produced by the Pembina Institute, the Asthma Society of Canada (ASC), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the Lung Association, the report...
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Y Combinator's first nonprofit aims to crowdfund health care
2013-03-26 21:35:42| CNET News.com
Watsi is hoping to use a Kickstarter model to help fund crucial medical cases around the world. Thirteen health care institutions are using Watsi already. [Read more]
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EPA Finds California South Coast air basin meets health standard for coarse particulate matter
2013-03-26 11:30:43| Green Car Congress
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UN report urges Africa's leaders to put environmental health policies first
2013-03-25 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In 2006, a ship chartered by Dutch-based commodities trader Trafigura illegally unloaded 500 tonnes of toxic waste in the ports of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast. Local contractors then dumped the contents in town. More than 30,000 people are thought to have suffered illness as a result of the contamination. In the oil-rich deltas of nearby Nigeria, some village water wells are tainted with benzene, a carcinogen, at levels 900 times above World Health Organisation limits. The multifaceted...
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H.I.P. CONCEPT, Implantable Medical Device To Prevent Hip Fracture, Addressing A Public Health Issue
2013-03-25 12:23:00| dairynetwork Home Page
H.I.P. CONCEPT is a medical device for the prevention of hip fracture developed by HyPrevention
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