Notre Dame restoration ready to start as safety work completed
Restoration to start at the cathedral in the centre of Paris two years after a fire destroyed the attic and spire
Source: Reuters: Health - September 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

World ’s largest sequoias wrapped in aluminum insulation as fire nears Giant Forest
Firefighters were working to protect the premier grove of sequoia trees at Sequoia...
Source: Reuters: Health - September 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Acoustic solutions made from natural fibers can reduce buildings' carbon footprints
(Aalto University) Good acoustics in the workspace improve work efficiency and productivity, which is one of the reasons why acoustic materials matter. The acoustic insulation market is already expected to hit 15 billion USD by 2022 as construction firms and industry pay more attention to sound environments. Researchers at Aalto University, in collaboration with Finnish acoustics company Lumir, have now studied how these common elements around us could become more eco-friendly, with the help of cellulose fibres.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 2, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

An historian's future attic archives on prevention CoViD, ecological medicine and public health injury and violence prevention commentary - Fisher L.
My latest interest and action, after more than 50 years in public health injury and violence prevention (IVP), is advocating for more innovative, joint multidisciplinary collaborations in ecological and historio-graphical research and evidence-based interv...
Source: SafetyLit - May 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

Judith Butler: Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; it brings home the fact that we are implicated in a shared world. The capacity of living human creatures to affect one another can be a matter of life or death. Because so many resources are not equitably shared, and so many have only a small or vanished share of the world, we cannot recognize the pandemic as global without facing those inequalities. Some people work for the common world, keep it going, but are not, for that reason, of it. They might lack property or papers, be sidelined by racism or even disdained as refuse—those who are poor,...
Source: TIME: Science - April 21, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Judith Butler Tags: Uncategorized climate change Magazine TIME 2030 Source Type: news

New data for Roche ’s OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) reinforce significant benefit on slowing disease progression in relapsing and primary progressive multiple sclerosis
Basel, 16 April 2021 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced new OCREVUS ® (ocrelizumab) analyses supporting its significant benefit on disease progression in early-stage relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and primary progressive MS (PPMS) as well as demonstrating high persistence and strong adherence to twice-yearly (six-monthly) dosing. These data are being presented virtually at the 73rd American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting from 17–22 April 2021. OCREVUS is the number one prescribed MS medication in the U.S. for patients starting a new treatment, and more than 200,000 people have...
Source: Roche Media News - April 16, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Maddening itch of liver disease comes from a surprising source
(Duke University) A devastating itching of the skin driven by severe liver disease turns out to have a surprising cause. Its discovery points toward possible new therapies for itching, and shows that the outer layer of the skin is so much more than insulation. The finding, which appears April 2 in Gastroenterology, indicates that the keratinocyte cells of the skin surface are acting as what lead researcher Wolfgang Liedtke, MD PhD, calls 'pre-neurons.'
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 5, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

New insulation takes heat off environment
(Flinders University) Waste cooking oil, sulfur and wool offcuts have been put to good use by green chemists at Flinders University to produce a sustainable new kind of housing insulation material. The latest environmentally friendly building product from experts at the Flinders Chalker Lab and colleagues at Deakin and Liverpool University, has been described in a new paper published in Chemistry Europe ahead of Global Recycling Day (18 March 2021).
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 12, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Study finds brain's 'wiring insulation' as major factor of age-related brain deterioration
(University of Portsmouth) A new study led by the University of Portsmouth has identified that one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration is the loss of a substance called myelin. Myelin acts like the protective and insulating plastic casing around the electrical wires of the brain - called axons. Myelin is essential for superfast communication between nerve cells that lie behind the supercomputer power of the human brain.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 9, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Climate-friendly foam building insulation may do more harm than good
(Green Science Policy Institute) The use of the polymeric flame retardant PolyFR in 'eco-friendly' foam plastic building insulation may be harmful to human health and the environment, according to a new commentary in Environmental Science& Technology. The authors' analysis identifies several points during the lifecycle of foam insulation that may expose workers, communities, and ecosystems to PolyFR and its potentially toxic breakdown products.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 23, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

The Science of Awe and the Mars Perseverance Rover
A version of this article appeared in this week’s It’s Not Just You newsletter. SUBSCRIBE HERE to have an essay delivered to your inbox every Sunday. Perseverance and Why Feeling Awe Increases Empathy Here’s a secret: I am a recovering cynic with recurring pessimistic tendencies. It’s hereditary. On a sunny day, my Irish grandfather would look out the window and say: “We’ll pay for this.” And I won’t even get into the generations of head-spinning drama on the Russian side. Lately, for all the obvious reasons, it’s been way too easy to fall into compulsive fretting. B...
Source: TIME: Health - February 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Susanna Schrobsdorff Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen It's Not Just You Source Type: news

As Disney Keeps Streaming Data Close To Vest, CEO Bob Chapek Calls Ramp-Up Of Franchises “The Best Insulation We’ve Got”
More than a year after launching Disney+, a clear success with just shy of 94.9 million global subscribers, Disney has so far reported...
Source: Reuters: Health - February 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Stability assessment of a polymeric brominated flame retardant in polystyrene foams under application-relevant conditions - Beach MW, Kearns KL, Davis JW, Stutzman JR, Lee D, Lai Y, Monaenkova D, Kram S, Hu J, Lukas C.
The flame retardant (FR) BLUEDGE polymeric flame retardant (PFR) has been in use since 2011 and was developed as a replacement FR for hexabromocyclododecane in polystyrene (PS)-based insulation foams. To better understand the degradation behavior of the PF...
Source: SafetyLit - February 10, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

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