Wood Smoke Continues to Make Women Sick in El Salvador
Cecilia Menjivar, a tortilla maker in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, takes a break from cooking corn in a pot that is one meter high and 50 centimeters in diameter, heated by a wood stove. Many women in urban and rural areas run these small businesses, aware of the damage to their health caused by the smoke, but the economic situation forces them to use firewood, which is much cheaper than liquefied gas. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala / IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador , Jul 4 2023 (IPS) Using a few dry sticks as fuel, Margarita Ramos of El Salvador lit the fire in her wood stove and set about frying...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edgardo Ayala Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Energy Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Gender Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Categori Source Type: news

Quest for Safe Water in One of India ’s Most Isolated Villages
Simita Devi, whose daughter spent days in hospital recently suffering from typhoid caused by contaminated water, collects clean water brought to the surface by a solar pump. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPSBy Umar Manzoor ShahChampad, India, Jul 4 2023 (IPS) Simita Devi spent over ten days in a government-run hospital a year ago anxiously watching her critically ill nine-year-old daughter, Gudiya, who was diagnosed with typhoid. Gudiya was so sick she even went into a coma for a day. Medical staff attending to the child said she contracted the disease from drinking contaminated water. After being discharged, Devi’s main wo...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Umar Manzoor Shah Tags: Asia-Pacific Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations India IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

Blue Origin is planning to open new launch sites outside the US
The billionaire space race is continuing to expand across the globe. Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin has announced plans to expand its operations to "Europe and beyond," the Financial Times reports. Part of this growth hinges on finding a site for an international launch facility — the company has…#jeffbezosowned #blueorigin #florida #bobsmith #blueorigins #honeybeerobotics #nasa #artemis #elonmusk #amazon
Source: Reuters: Health - July 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Watch: drive-through recycling in Beirut
Beirut motorists pull up to a drive-through counter, not for fast-food, but to exchange empty bottles and cardboard for cash, a novelty in a country long plagued by rubbish crises. Festering landfills often overflow in crisis-hit Lebanon, waste is burnt illegally at informal dump sites and rubbish…#beirut #lebanon #mediterraneansea
Source: Reuters: Health - July 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Chunky, ugly sneakers have Nike singing the blues
Three years ago, it was essentially impossible to buy Nike Air Jordan 1 Highs on the company’s SNKRS app. The high-tops would sell out in seconds—sometimes fractions of a second—and later pop up on resale sites at a hiked price. Nike drops were a cultish event in which thousands of sneakerheads…#nike #jordan1highs #jordans #goldmansachs #ntnike #salomonandhoka #stockx #salomon #hoka #genzers
Source: Reuters: Health - July 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before it went dark in Louisiana traffic fell ~80% there due to such a law
Pornhub is now blocking people in Mississippi and Virginia from visiting its website over laws that would require the service to verify their age. The company says it’s blocking users to protest unfair enforcement of these new laws, claiming that sites enforcing the new rules will lose traffic to…#mississippi #virginia #traffic #utah #pornhubs #redtube #freespeechcoalition #montana #arkansas
Source: Reuters: Health - July 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NIH-wide climate and health initiative applauded by advisors to NIH Director
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/feature/climate-health-initiative-applauded-thumbnail_0.jpg?itok=j1hsZS95" /><br /><p>NIEHS Director shared progress with advisory committee at June meeting amid poor air quality due to wildfires, concerns about health effects.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Microplastics research: sum of our exposures studied by grantee
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/01/feature/thumb949147.jpeg?itok=syzwtO0o" /><br /><p>I spoke with Douglas Walker, Ph.D., about his efforts to understand how these tiny plastic particles may affect human health.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Advisory Council considers plans to foster diverse, inclusive research
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/feature/fostering-diverse-inclusive-research-thumbnail.jpg?itok=t1J3fYyN" /><br /><p>Topics discussed included improving equity across NIEHS, revising funding strategies, and strategizing the future of environmental health.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Admiral Levine commends Worker Training Program
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/feature/environmental-worker-training-program-thumbnail.jpg?itok=hg3BW1N0" /><br /><p>NIEHS convenes roundtable with HHS Assistant Secretary for Health to advance environmental justice through worker training.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Linking historical climate data to human health studies is challenging
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/science-highlights/historical-climate-change-data-thumbnail.jpg?itok=6fF8ugfG" /><br /><p>NIH Climate and Health Scholar Ferdouz Cochran, Ph.D., presented keys to untangling exposure data and advancing research during seminar series.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Grantees report progress to decrease PFAS, arsenic, other exposures
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/science-highlights/superfund-research-program-progress-thumbnail.jpg?itok=ydOoVBky" /><br /><p>Superfund Research Program event highlights progress made by 11 funded centers to reduce hazardous substances in U.S., protect health.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Workshop highlights promise and priorities for advancing organ models
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/science-highlights/tissue-chips-thumbnail.jpg?itok=mLJEpcwg" /><br /><p>Experts discuss how to use human cell-based models to improve infectious disease research and drug development.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Targeting the root cause of asthma
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/science-highlights/changing-home-environment-reduces-asthma-thumbnail.jpg?itok=KB7gSDcW" /><br /><p>Moving to low-poverty neighborhoods reduces asthma symptoms in children, in part by reducing stress.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

Nature-based remediation technologies help clean up PCB contamination
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023/06/science-highlights/pcb-contamination-clean-thumbnail.jpg?itok=F6rNJ-4-" /><br /><p>Grantee collaborates across commerce and community to create technologies that help clean up contamination of food chain, natural resources.</p> (read more)
Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - July 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news

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