Warming in Medical News

Global Warming Biggest Health Threat of 21st Century, Experts Say

Public health officials call on their own to tackle issue WEDNESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- The warming of planet Earth is "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century," a varied group of experts warned Wednesday. Their report is one of the latest to expound on the deep...

Slimband™ Team Competes in CN Tower Climb and Helps Fight Against Global Warming

A team of Slimband employees successfully competed in the 19th Annual Canada Life CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada that took place on April 16th 2009. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) April 22, 2009-- A team of Slimband employees successfully competed in the 19th Annual Canada Life C...

Global Warming Expected to Spike Pollen and Spring Allergies - New Drug-Free Topical Gels Boost Hope for Allergy Sufferers

IRVINGTON, N.Y., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring has sprung and with it arrives the onset of unrelenting allergy symptoms which for many, will persist throughout the season into summer. For over 40 million Americans in search of allergy relief this season, a solution can't come fast enough. This ...

Global Warming May Bring More Respiratory Woes

Rising temperatures boost hospital admissions, study finds MONDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Climate change will push summer temperatures higher and lead to more hospitalizations for respiratory problems, a European study finds. The researchers analyzed a minimum of three years o...

It's Cold Outside! Warm Up in Select Downtown Boston Heated Bus Shelters Courtesy of TYLENOL(r) Warming Liquids

BOSTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of TYLENOL(r) Warming Liquids have set out to warm up chilly Boston bus riders by heating ten bus shelters in the downtown area. The shelters, which will be heated until March 8, can be found at the following locations: 666 Boylston...

It's Cold Outside! Warm Up in Select Downtown Chicago Heated Bus Shelters Courtesy of TYLENOL(r) Warming Liquids

CHICAGO, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of TYLENOL(r) Warming Liquids have set out to warm up chilly Chicago bus riders by heating ten bus shelters in the downtown area. The shelters, which will be heated until March 8, can be found at the following locations: 16 South Clar...

The Makers of TYLENOL(R) Warming Liquids Offer Free 'Warming' Taxi Rides in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of TYLENOL(r) Warming Liquids have embarked on a multi-city tour offering passengers access to free taxi rides so they can warm up. Already a success in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, passengers in Washington, D.C. can now receive complimentary tra...

The Makers of TYLENOL(R) Warming Liquids Offer Free 'Warming' Taxi Rides in Select Philadelphia Areas

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The makers of TYLENOL(R) Warming Liquids have embarked on a multi-city tour offering passengers access to free taxi rides so they can warm up. Already a success in New York and Boston (and eventually heading to Washington, D.C. as well), passengers in Philade...

Global Warming Linked to Heightened Kidney Stone Risk

Study predicts up to 2.2 million additional cases in U.S. by 2050 MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Rising temperatures and increased dehydration linked to global warming will boost kidney stone rates in the United States and around the world, new research suggests. In the United ...

AUA 2008: Global warming may lead to increase in kidney stones disease

ORLANDO, FL, May 20, 2008 Rising global temperatures could lead to an increase in kidney stones, according to research presented today at the 103rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA). Dehydration has been linked to stone disease, particularly in warmer climates...

Global Warming May Trigger Rise in Heart Deaths

Hotter temperatures mean more ozone, and more strain on hearts, researchers say WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Soaring temperatures and high ozone levels work together to boost death risks from heart disease and stroke, researchers report. They believe that global warming --...

Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll

Links (in order of appearance in the text) to have active are: Anthony Leiserowitz Yale Project on Climate Change New Haven, Conn. A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40% say that a presidential candidates posi...

'Airport Malaria' Risk Rising With Global Warming

Researchers say once inhospitable climes becoming more conducive to spread FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Global warming is raising the risk for infection with so-called "airport malaria" in malaria-free zones of the United States and Europe, researchers warn. Here's how it hap...

Local Health Officials Recognize Threat of Global Warming

But survey finds many aren't prepared to tackle the problem in coming decades THURSDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- While most public health department officials in the United States take the health threat of global warming seriously, the majority say they aren't prepared to confront ...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

Once embraced only by tree huggers but now by Madonna, Sting and other stars, global warming had a turbulent ride before being adopted as a celebrity campaign issue in Saturday's Live Earth concerts. For much of its history, climate change has faced indifference or ignorance, thanks mainly...

Global Warming Threatens Tibet

A group of scientists, organized by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has expressed fears about global warming having a debilitating impact on Tibet in the near future . According to them, the Tibet faces the possibility of shrinking glaciers, frozen earth melting, grasslands turning yellow and riv...

Big B Teams Up With Sienna Miller for Global Warming Campaign

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has joined forces with British actress Sienna Miller to advise Indians to go green. Bachchan met the Factory Girl star, in Mumbai on July 17 and spoke about doing his bit to protect the earth. The Bollywood icon had earlier announced that the In...

Sienna Sizzles in Wet T-shirt to Spread Global Warming Awareness

It looks like Sienna Miller is raising the mercury rather then cooling the earth through her global warning campaign, for the actress posed in a wet T-shirt to do her bit in spreading environmental awareness. The 25-year-old, who flew to India recently for a week-long promotional visit as ...

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...

Human Induced Global Warming Drying Up Arctic Ponds

Global warming is now taking its toll on the ancient Arctic ponds as well, according to new study by a researcher from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. These ponds, which lie atop bedrock, freeze solid in the winter and then melt for a few months each summer, becoming hot spots of act...

Global Warming To Effect Eastern Coast Of India

The oceanic region adjoining the Indian subcontinent is likely to warm at its surface by about 1.5-2.0 degree Centigrade by the middle of this century and by about 2.3-3.5 degree Centigrade by the end of the century. This indication is derived from modern simulation studies. In a discuss...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

A modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees in our major cities could offset decades of predicted temperature rise, a new study by researchers from the University of Manchester has revealed. According to the team, a mere 10 percent increase in the amount of green space ...

Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined other agencies in warning of the global warming disasters. In fact it goes further than others and warns that even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangero...

World may Get Much Wetter With Global Warming Than Believed

The world might get unexpectedly wetter than earlier believed, a new study carried out by the California-based Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) has said. According to the satellite-based research undertaken by Frank Wentz and his colleagues, global temperatures have risen, but precipitation ha...

Global Warming Spurring Ocean Waves Speed

Global warming is speeding up ocean waves, a new study by Canadian researchers from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, has found. Geophysicists predict that as the ocean surface warms, these so-called planetary waves should speed up. To test this theory, John Fyfe and ...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

Global warming millions of years ago. Any takers? At least that is what the Discovery channel says happened 55 millions of years ago.// In a feature aired a few days ago, it was suggested that the rifting apart of the Earth’s crust to create the northeast Atlantic Ocean might have been trigge...

Global Warming Could Increase Exotic Fish Poisoning

Ciguatera, human poisoning resulting from eating some exotic fish varieties, is increasing all along the coastal regions in the world, reports say. Upto 50,000 people worldwide fall victims to it every year, it is estimated. // Scientists say the risks are getting worse, because of the damage t...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

Sydneyis the most populous city in Australia, with a population of over 4.2 million people. Located on the south-eastern coast of Australia//, it is also the state capital of New South Wales. It set a fascinating example to the rest of the world in energy conservation, in the fight against glob...

Global Warming Results In Increased Heat Related Illness

Californian researchers are planning to study the relationship between global warming and increased emergency room admission.// The study will be funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Statistics show that more than 160 individuals have died due to the heat wave that occ...

Global Warming Will Result In the Extinction Of Amphibians

A fungal disease in frogs caused by global warming is resulting in the death of entire populations, and also driving them closer to extinction. The threat to biodiversity // as a result of emerging infectious diseases may also result in danger to human beings. The study published by the journ...

Global Warming Could Cause 5 Million Illnesses: WHO

These findings were reached after a comprehensive study conducted by the scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. These researchers entered data on climate-sensitive diseases // into mapping software and reached their conclusions. The WHO data also shows that the worst affected by the ...

Prevent Global Warming by Becoming A Vegetarian

Cooking meat consumes more oil and gas and can be a cause of Global warming//. The British physicist Alan Calverd, writing in this month's ‘Physics World’ said: "Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unkno...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

Some of the ponds which have been around for thousands of years in High Artic are drying up because of global warming , according to two researchers. Ancient ponds in the Arctic drying up during the polar summer as warmer temperatures evaporate shallow bodies of water illustrates the rapid effects ...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

Scientists have been warning that glaciers are receding and lakes are drying up in Latin American America because of global warming. Even while some sections are adamantly skeptical about such assertions, Chilean scientists have reported the disappearance of a whole lake in the south of ...

Macca Calls for Veggie World to Prevent Global Warming

Sir Paul McCartney says that global warming can be prevented if people across the world turn vegetarian . The former 'Beatle' feels that the suggestion that livestock farming is done in mankind's favour borders on myth. "Livestock farming is one of the biggest destroyers of the p...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

A British woman will be aiming to raise awareness of maritime pollution and secure a place in history when she sets out on a solo row across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco on Thursday. Roz Savage, 38, has already traversed the Atlantic Ocean in her lightweight 24-foot (seven meter) s...

Free Your Necktie and Stop Global Warming

The Italian Health Ministry has said that freeing the neck of a tight fitting tie immediately cools the body and helps stop global warming. Global warming is the gradual warming of the Earth's atmosphere reportedly caused by the burning of fossil fuels and industrial pollutants. In...

Indian Weather Station Near Glacier to Study Global Warming

For the first time, an Indian weather station is being set up near a Himalayan glacier to study the impact of climate change and provide weather details and warnings to mountaineers . "We are setting up an Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS), a warning and recording system that includes a micropr...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought , according to a study appearing in this week's issue of Science. The study, which sheds light on the so-called missing carbon sink,...

Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

Global warming will cause more deaths in summer because of higher temperatures but these will not be offset by fewer deaths in milder winters finds an analysis published online ahead of print in Occupational and Environment Medicine. The Harvard researchers analysed city-specific weather d...