http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars, 21,000 emergency room visits, nearly 1,700 deaths, and 9,000 hospitalizations are among the staggering impacts of six climate change-related events in the United States during the last decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in November 2011 edition of the journal Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-groundbreaking-quantifies-health-climate-change-disasters.html Health Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:23:04 EST news240077486 Climate change poses an immediate and serious threat to global health and stability, as floods and droughts destroy people's homes and food supplies and increase mass migration, experts warned Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-climate-poses-threat-health-experts.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:30:05 EST news238068266