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Increased carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere also could worsen air pollution worldwide and lead to the deaths of up to 22,000 people a year, a new study shows. Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from burning fossil fuels have been linked to sea-level changes, snowmelt, disease, heat stress, severe weather, and ocean acidification, but this is the first study to link CO2 rise to pollution. Because carbon dioxide doesn't directly affect respiration, it hasn't been classified as an air pollutant. But the study, led by Mark Jacobson of Stanford University, predicts that as temperatures and water vapor rise because of extra atmospheric CO2, ozone pollution levels also will rise. Using a high-resolution model that correlates pollution levels to human health, Jacobson found that each 1.8-degree rise in temperature could increase yearly air pollution deaths in the USA by about 1,000, which he extrapolated to 22,000 worldwide. Jacobson notes that many of these deaths would likely occur in smoggy urban areas.
This new report published by the World Bank and IHME presents key changes in the leading causes of premature mortality and disability in South Asia. It explores intraregional differences in diseases, injuries, and the risk factors.
Indifferent primary health care in developing countries could lead to mental depression taking the form of a mass illness
It is possible to lead a healthy life, even in Delhi, but only if the environment is free of pollutants. Though it is the job of the government machinery to ensure citizens' health, it has been
Simbec Research one of Europe's leading contract research organisations (CRO), plans to set up a base in India. The UK based CRO, which is in the business of conducting clinical trials, will soon be
A leading UK surgeon published groundbreaking research on Friday demonstrating for the first time a direct link between air travel and potentially lethal blood clots. The condition, known as deep
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh lead in total fertility rates (TFR) with figures o 4.8,4.4, 4.2 and 4.0 respectively compared to the national average of 3.3, Planning Commission
The Herpes eye infection, leading to vision loss, has been known to recur throughout a person's life: but how it happened, remained unknwon. Scientists have now discovered a gene that prevents
A new research centre launched by a leading British cancer charity on Tuesday is to use James Bon-style tactics to spy on the tobacco indutry as a new advertising ban comes into force later this
One of the leading American stem-cell researchers will move to the UK to pursue embryo research, citing an increasing unfriendly climate in the U.S. and better opportunities abroad. The researcher,
Ranbaxy Laboratories has taken a major lead by reducing the prices of this anti - AIDS drugs consequent to the excise duty exemption announced in the budget 2002-03. The company has been among the
Strokes, the second leading cause of death world-wide can now be reduced with Ramipril, till now being used for controlling hypertension. The finding of the multi-centre, 19 country study published
The global alarm on injecting drug use, leading to the spread of HIV infections and blood borne pathogens such as hepatitis B and C, rings out loudly in Chennai, with a recent study showing that more
Leading doctors of the Birmingham-based University of Alabama and the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation rang the alarm bells, warning of a dangerously high incidence of diabetes and cardiovascular
Poor sanitation in India leads to the death of more than 3000 children every day. Most of these deaths are easily avoidable, said Henk Van Norden, Chief WES, UNICEF, on Sanitation, Hygiene, Child
A leading expert, Mr Michael Holick, a professor of medicine, dermatology,physiology and biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine, discovered the active form of Vitamin D, has pulled
<p>Thalidomide was a widely used drug in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women. It became apparent in the 1960s that thalidomide treatment resulted in severe birth
Powder used in surgeons gloves can cause inflammation and post operative infection
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant