A major presentation at this year's International Congress on Obesity (ICO 2022) in Melbourne, Australia (18–23 October) (a biennial meeting of the World Obesity Federation) will describe how a combination of factors including ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Too much air conditioning may be harming our health, according to a new study led by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).
Aug 8, 2023
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A commentary in the International Journal of Dermatology stresses the need for dermatologists to engage more meaningfully on key climate issues and to move beyond discussions of the skin-related impacts of climate change.
Sep 8, 2022
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Just before the delegates for the annual Conference of the Parties on climate change started meeting in Bonn this month, the Lancet, the leading British medical journal, published yet another major study showing that climate ...
Nov 20, 2017
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Top-down advocacy on health and climate at the UN level needs to be mirrored by bottom-up public health actions that bring health and climate co-benefits according to international experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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A new study titled "A retrospective analysis of mission reports in the national Swedish Police Registry on mountain rescue 2018–2022: here be snowmobiles," published in the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation ...
May 2, 2024
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It is encouraging to see greater attention in the media to the issue of climate change and its effects on the life-support systems of the planet. The link between breast cancer and the environment, however, is being overlooked.
Jan 16, 2019
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The highs and lows of the daily weather could signal something more important than which outfit to wear: A study from South Korea suggests the more temperatures fluctuate during the summer, the more severe strokes become.
Feb 19, 2020
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The proportion of the global population vulnerable to heat-related death and disease is growing as a result of climate change's effects on growing populations of older people, people living in cities, and people with non-communicable ...
Nov 29, 2018
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When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children—whether those children are physically in the line of danger or watching from thousands of miles away.
Feb 8, 2022
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