MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'drought'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152893&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F08%2F19%2Fliben-ethiopia%2F Liben region, Ethiopia – July 26, 2011 After losing her entire livestock to the drought, 47-year-old Idimo Mohied walked for seven days with her youngest child. Having spent ten days in the pre-registration camp, she has been at the transit camp for over a week. She would like to be rehoused in a ‘normal’ camp as soon as possible. At present, her food rations are insufficient and she has nowhere to sleep. Idimo’s experience is typical of the 118,000 Somali refugees now seeking aid in camps in Ethiopia’s Liben region. Almost half arrived in the last two months, having fled drought and hunger, not to mention a war that has raged for two decades. The massive influx of refugees has overstretched the resources of the Liben camps, which were initially built to shelter 45,000 pe... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152893 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:21:14 +0100 5152893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5115091&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F08%2F10%2Fdadaab-kenya-4%2F A father sits with his malnourished child in the intensive therapeutic feeding center at the MSF hospital in the Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Dadaab, Kenya, July 26, 2011. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5115091 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:05:29 +0100 5115091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5115092&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F08%2F08%2Fjilib-somalia%2F A Somalia mother in Jilib after receiving relief supplies from MSF teams. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins San Frontières (MSF) has distributed plastic sheeting, mosquito nets, and soap to more than 3,600 displaced Somalis who have found temporary shelter in the town of Jilib, in southern Somalia’s Lower Julba Valley. As a prolonged drought carries on, more and more families are leaving their homes and undertaking long, arduous journeys in hopes of finding relief and assistance. MSF was in a position to aid the families in Jilib because the organization runs a hospital and a large therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children in the nearby town of Marere. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5115092 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:04:17 +0100 5115092 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5067278&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F07%2F26%2Fdadaab-kenya-2%2F July 23, 2011 A young boy taking bone-thin cattle in search of pasture at the edge of Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya. Many recently arrived Somali refugees have lost all of their animals to the ravishing effects of a prolonged drought in Somalia. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5067278 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:12:01 +0100 5067278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419183&cid=t_200399_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fsix-science-snippets.html from David Bradley What is entropy? – This property of all matter – this collapse into disorder – is given a name: entropy. Things that are disordered have greater entropy than things that are relatively more organized. A glass of water, in which the molecules of water itself can move around relatively freely, is more disorganized – has greater entropy – than a block of ice, in which the molecules of water are trapped into a rigid, organized array. Research at recess – Twenty five 8-10-year-olds, under the guidance of University College London neuroscientist Beau Lotto, found that bees can learn complex rules to solve puzzles, and that individual bees have personal preferences, suggesting the insects may possess some form of personality. As bold as tho... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419183 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:00:09 +0100 4419183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899391&cid=t_200399_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Felectrify-a-potato-boost-its-antioxidants%2F2010.08.24 Antioxidants are important substances that prevent free radicals from damaging cells, and potatoes contain substantial amounts of them. However, researchers from Obihiro University in Japan thought that more would be better and have developed some innovative methods of boosting the potato’s antioxidant content. By immersing the potatoes in water or salt and subsequently applying ultrasound or electricity for 5 to 30 minutes, they increased the amounts of antioxidants by as much as 50 percent. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899391 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:00:04 +0100 3899391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3117814&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2009%2F12%2F24%2Fethiopia-4%2F Photo: Stephan Vanfleteren Bale Province, Ethiopia – March 2003 Two sisters posing inside the former military barrack. A communist symbol is painted on the wall. Shortage of fertile land, combined with a persistent drought, drove tens of thousands of Ethiopians from their homes in Harraghe province. On their way to a new and better life they got stranded in an old army base in Bale province. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3117814 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:44:40 +0100 3117814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2987796&cid=t_200399_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fsudan-4%2F Photo: Sebastiao Salgado / Amazonas Kassala, Sudan – 1985 A biblical looking scene, a mother with her children in search of food and shelter in the camp of Wad Sherifad, near the town of Kassala, which contained over 70.000 refugees at the time. In total, some 600,000 Ethiopians fleeing drought, famine and fighting in their country had found refuge in Sudan. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2987796 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:47:52 +0100 2987796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2649060&cid=t_200399_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F07%2F29%2Fthe-tragedy-of-the-commons%2F The tragedy of the commons is a term coined by scientist Garrett Hardin in 1968 describing what can happen in groups when individuals act in their own best self interests and ignore what’s best for the whole group. A group of herdsmen shared a communal pasture, so the story goes, but some realized that if they increased their own herd, it would greatly benefit them. However, increasing your herd without regard to the resources available also brings unintentional tragedy — in the form of the destruction of the common grazing area. Being selfish by using a shared group resource can hurt others. But it doesn’t always have to. Since that time, we’ve had a great deal of research into this phenomenon that’s resulted in a few common solutions, as outlined by Mark Van... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2649060 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:23:00 +0100 2649060 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750133&cid=t_200399_132_f&fid=35028&url=http%3A%2F%2Flurena.vox.com%2Flibrary%2Fpost%2Fsystems-biology-of-abiotically-stressed-grapes.html%3F_c%3Dfeed-rss Grant Cramer, University of Nevada at Reno Keynote Talk, Afternoon Session, 1 September (11th MGED Meeting, 1-4 September, 2008) Why interested in this type of stress? Cold is a major problem for grapes, salt tolerance would be useful (over time... Read and post comments | Send to a friend (Source: Systems Biology & Bioinformatics) Systems Biology & Bioinformatics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750133 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:30:13 +0100 1750133