Climate in Medical News

Health Care Without Harm Partners With Clinton Climate Initiative to Help Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities Reduce Environmental Impact

Partnership to Focus on Energy Conservation and Facility Retrofitting ARLINGTON, Va., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has entered into an agreement with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, to...

World Health Organization Says Health Sector Can Lead the Fight Against Climate Change

GENEVA and WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The health sector can play a leadership role in reducing the magnitude and consequences of global warming by reducing its climate footprint. These efforts, some of which are already underway, can greatly reduce the serious health threat...

The Climate Project Brings Together Historic Gathering of World's Experts on Climate Change

Hundreds of Grass-Roots Activists and Scientific Leaders Meet in Nashville for Al Gore's North American Summit Nashville, Tennessee, (PRWEB) May 14, 2009 -- The Climate Project (TCP), an international non-profit founded by former Vice President Al Gore with a mission to...

New Bill to Fund Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness Praised by Environmental and Health Groups

Legislation will support research, surveillance, planning and interagency coordination WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Trust for America's Health (TFAH), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) praised legislation introduced late yesterd...

APHA Applauds Climate Change Bill That Will Help Protect Public Health

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There is a direct connection between climate change and human health, and legislation introduced yesterday will greatly help to better understand and minimize the growing health threats associated with a warming climate, said the American Public Health ...

Number of People Affected By Climate Disaster Up 54% By 2015

Oxfam Calls for Urgent Action, Increase Could Overwhelm Current Response System WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of people affected by climate-related humanitarian disasters is projected to rise by 54% by 2015, threatening to overwhelm emergency response and humanita...

Kaiser Permanente Recognized for Efforts to Spread Health by Curbing Climate Change

Kaiser Permanente's Climate Footprint Efforts are Rewarded for Third Consecutive Year OAKLAND, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente has been named a "Climate Action Leader" for voluntarily calculating, verifying and publicly reporting its greenhouse gas emissions under the Califo...

Federal funding gap cited for research on human health impacts due to climate change

March 26, 2009 -- Climate change will seriously impact public health, but the United States has yet to allocate adequate research funding to understand and prepare for these impacts, according to a report published in Environmental Health Perspectives , the journal of the U.S. National Institute ...

What if New Mexico doesn't address climate change?

If nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, New Mexico could experience some $3.2 billion in associated costs -- led primarily by wildfires and health-care. This could translate to an individual tab of about 8 percent of annual household income by 2020, according to a report produced fo...

What if Oregonians decline to address climate change?

If nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon will face some $3.3 billion in annual costs, which could translate to an individual tab of about 4 percent of annual household income by 2020, according to a report produced for the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative's...

'Snowbirds' Beware the Climate Changes

Switch to balmier days can be healthy and hazardous for seniors, experts say WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) --- Seniors who head south each winter to escape the cold often feel better just thinking about the warmer climes. But there are adjustments to be made to make sure thes...

Psychiatric Congress Opens Amid Growing Climate of Economy-Driven Anxieties

Experts see surge in cases of depression based on financial woes SAN DIEGO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- An expected 2,500 mental health professionals will convene at the San Diego Convention Center today for the 2008 U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress amid a deepening economic crisis ...

Catholic Health Organizations Launch Ministry-Wide Effort to Raise Awareness About Global Climate Change

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) -- in conjunction with Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), Denver; Covenant Health Systems, Lexington, MA; and Trinity Health, Novi, MI -- is launching a ministry-wide effort to raise awaren...

G8+5 science academies call for action on climate change

Today the science academies for the G8+5 countries issued statements urging leaders worldwide to take action on two pressing global challenges. To mitigate and adapt to climate change, nations must begin a transition to being "low-carbon societies," a shift that will require energy-saving changes...

Weather, stomach bugs and climate change: Refining the model

BOSTON (June 4, 2008) Monitoring extreme weather, such as periods of high temperature, is one way to predict the timing and intensity of infectious diseases like cryptosporidiosis, an intestinal disease that causes upset stomach and diarrhea. Two public health researchers have created a model tha...

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Focuses on Changing the Climate of Health Care During National Public Health Week

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Calvin B. Johnson kicked off National Public Health Week today in Harrisburg by urging United Way executives to help change the health care climate in Pennsylvania. "This week, we will be meetin...

APHA Applauds House Resolution and Next Week's Hearing on the Connection Between Climate Change and Health

Announcement Coincides with 2008 National Public Health Week, April 7-13 WASHINGTON, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- APHA applauds Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.) of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warmin...

Healthy People: Healthy Planet - Climate Change in LA

Theme for Public Health Week in Los Angeles Focuses on the Impact of the Environment on Public Health LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ - The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health kicked off National Public Health Week today with a press conference held outs...

Public Health Leaders Unveil Blueprint for Tackling Climate Change

Landmark Document Represents Emerging Consensus of Top Health and Climate Experts, Includes Recommendations for Health Professionals and the Public WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today unveiled its first-ever blueprint for comb...

Governor Rendell Tells Congress 'Prescription for Pennsylvania' Will Improve Health Care Climate for Small Businesses

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today told U.S. lawmakers that small businesses struggle under a health care system that fosters spiraling costs, uneven and inadequate quality and little or no coverage for millions of Americans - and states cannot affo...

Small sea creatures may be the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change

(Boston, Mass.) As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to scientists at a press briefing this morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. Gretchen ...

Microbes as climate engineers

We might think we control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitants on this planet we might be fighting a losing battle, according to an article in the February 2008 issue of Microbiology Today. Humans are continually altering the atmosphere. Arrogant organisms ...

New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change

Denpasar, Indonesia (Dec. 10, 2007) Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the planet, according to a study presented at the U.N. ...

NABJ Joins with U.N. to Cover Climate Change and Development in Senegal

DAKAR, Senegal, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Journalists from leading U.S. news organizations are heading to Senegal on a press trip organized by the United Nations and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Dec. 1-9, to report on the impact of climate change, the fight against HIV...

APHA Adopts New Policies on Food Safety, Global Climate Change, Multidrug-Resistant Organisms, Breastfeeding and Feminine Hygiene

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association today adopted 20 policies addressing a wide spectrum of public health issues from food safety and obesity to personal hygiene and global climate change. The following are descriptions of some of the various ...

Motivational coaching climate outscores winning for young athletes

Winning isnt everything, its the only thing. former UCLA and Vanderbilt football coach Red Sanders I just want to play and have fun. a typical 10- to 15-year-old athlete New research indicates that young athletes find playing for coaches who stress personal improvement, having fun and givin...

Kaiser Permanente Achieves Climate Action Leader Status

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente has successfully certified its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory with the California Climate Action Registry, becoming the first health care organization to earn the distinction of Climate Action Leader(TM). Kaiser Permanente is now...

Affinion Group Survey Reveals That Underinsured Consumers Need Alternate Solutions in Light of Current Economic Climate

Nearly half say unreimbursed loss of as little as $500 would have "severe" impact on financial stability NORWALK, Conn., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- As unemployment rates continue to climb, one often overlooked aspect of people being laid-off is their access to affordable insurance. In a national ...

Stroller Strides(R) Franchises Succeed Despite Economic Climate

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- As Americans curtail spending to offset economic challenges, they're placing priority on their investments. One small business that's proven to provide an invaluable service despite the shaky consumer climate is Stroller Strides - a franchised stroller exerci...

Commission's Revenue Cap Proposal Would Require Cuts in Education, Health, and Safety, and Harm Business Climate

WASHINGTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Florida would likely suffer significant cuts in education, public health, public safety, infrastructure and other priorities under the revenue cap proposal the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission will consider on Wednesday, March 26, according ...

Fossilized Midges can Predict Climate Change: Study

Researchers attached with six British universities have concluded that fossilized midges have the potential to predict climate change in the future . According to experts at the University of Liverpool, the University of Swansea; the Open University; the University of Exeter; the Edge Hill ...

Rivers in China Shrinking Due to Climate Change

The volume of water flowing in two of China's longest rivers -- the Yangtze and the Yellow -- is reducing steadily because of climate change linked to the contraction of wetlands, warned the country's leading scientists. The China Daily quoted scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Early Arctic Spring Indication of Climate Change

Spring in the Arctic has been registered weeks earlier than a decade ago and is likely linked to climate warming, a team of researchers said . "Despite uncertainties in the magnitude of expected global warming over the next century, one consistent feature of extant and projected changes is ...

IIT Delhi Scientist Finds Climate Models Consistent With Ocean Warming Observations

Climate models represent variability in ocean heat content on interannual-to-decadal time scales much more realistically than previously believed , a study by an Indian scientist has revealed. Krishna Achuta Rao, previously at Livermore's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercompari...

Global Climate Change and Toxic Chemicals: A Potentialy Lethal Combination

As temperature influences the toxic effects of chemicals, so does chemical exposure influence the temperature tolerance of an organism. The consequences of this harmful reciprocal relationship on four freshwater fish are explored in a new study published in the latest issue of Environmental Toxico...

'Lights Out' as London Does Its Bit for Climate Change

Some of London's key landmarks and top hotels are to go dark for an hour on Thursday evening as the British capital does its bit for the fight against global warming and turns off its lights. The Houses of Parliament, luxury hotels like the Ritz and key businesses have confirmed they will ...

Everest, Five Other World Heritage Sites Face Climate Change Risk

Six World Heritage sites, including Mount Everest, could be at risk from the impact of climate change, feel environement protection experts and groups . Urging the United Nations to act quickly on the matter, groups like Greenpeace and the Climate Justice Programme have petitioned the globa...

Experts to Discuss Climate Change Health Risks: WHO

International experts will discuss health threats in the Asia-Pacific from global warming at a meeting to be held in Malaysia from July 2, the World Health Organisation said Thursday. Climate change contributes directly or indirectly to about 77,000 deaths per year in the region, according...

Capricious Climate in Indonesia Adds to Farmers Woe

Java's rice fields reverberate with the activities of farmers from dawn to dusk. But there is a pervading concern amongst the lot, for the climate has not been on their side to assist them with good yields. Some farmers feel the weather has also turned capricious. Indonesias rice farming had...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

Many people know about the dangers of global warming, but only few act. The explanation, says Professor Andreas Ernst of the University of Kassel, has two parts. One, human beings get stubbornly comfortable in their habits. On the other, the human species is biologically programmed to act...