Financial crisis increases suicides and homicides
Market crashes could lead to rises in homicides and suicides, unless governments invest in labour market protections, according to a study published in today's Lancet . Researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Oxford University estimated that soaring stress brought on by...World Financial Crisis and AIDS Backlash Threaten Lives
KAMPALA, Uganda and NAIROBI, Kenya and DELHI, India, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of the G8 Summit in Italy, the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) calls on leaders of the world's richest countries to announce significant additional funds to ensure that AIDS trea...Food crisis and global health workshop July 14-16
The worldwide economic downturn has exacerbated a global food crisis that started in 2007, leading to a significant increase in the number of people who are malnourished. The Institute of Medicine will convene top experts at a three-day workshop to explore the implications of the food crisis on n...UN Gathering of Global Experts to Address Current Crisis in Family Planning
UNITED NATIONS, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family planning experts from around the world warn that the lack of funding for family planning is stalling development efforts in poor countries. Countries facing large population growth are especially at risk. With populations expected to m...New Media-Led Effort Responds to AIDS Crisis in Black America
GREATER THAN AIDS Promotes Unity, Power of Community Multi-Platform Campaign Incorporates PSAs, Integrated Content and Community Activities MENLO PARK, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, leading U.S. media companies announced a new coordinated national campaign to mobil...Video: Plan for Long Term Care Before the Crisis Hits
"Let's Talk" Helps Families Deal with Potential Long-Term Care Needs; Economic uncertainty and increased longevity add urgency RICHMOND, Va., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As people prepare to live longer in retirement than past generations, and the economy crushes more nest eggs, planning...Pakistan Crisis Puts Pregnant Women At Increased Risk
UNFPA Launches Emergency Appeal for Maternal Health Care for the Displaced ISLAMABAD, Pakistan and UNITED NATIONS, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pakistani women uprooted by fighting in the Swat Valley have critical health needs that relief operations must urgently address, says UNFPA, the...GAA Calls on Secretary Clinton to Speak Out Against Gender-Based Violence During Her Africa Trip
...g been physically or sexually abused while at school. Violence against women and violence against children is a public health and human rights crisis of epidemic proportions. VAW/VAC also fuels the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both by hindering prevention efforts, including access to education, and by creatin...Orthopaedic Surgeon Shortage Predicted Due to Soaring Joint Replacement Procedures
...of the pie, and that is only going to increase if historical trends continue." Both researchers believe that the key to stemming this supply-side crisis is for policymakers to reconsider the rates at which total joint replacements are reimbursed. The reimbursement rates have consistently gone down over...CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders
...e hope to bring at least one of these projects to a conclusion very soon. We cannot change the economic climate or the damage that the financial crisis has caused to the countless stocks, us included, but we are trying to structure our future steps to create the greatest value for CEL-SCI shareholders...Foreign Medical Devices are in High Demand in Russia
...Russia (total, by product group) - Registration of medical devices in Russia - Imports - Forecasts (effects of the present financial crisis have been taken into account, and the forecasts include both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios) - Companies in the market - The...American Dairy Provides Business Update
...tations that air all across China. In a recent survey by AC Nielsen, the Company was ranked No. 1 fast growing infant formula company after the dairy crisis occurred in September 2008. The Company also provides training and support to its growing sales and marketing team nationwide. Most recently,...Celtic Pharma Announces Update on Status of XERECEPT(R) Program Sale Planned in 2009
...r development to regulatory approval. Celtic Pharma's aim is to bridge the gap between the established pharmaceutical companies' new product pipeline crisis and the biotech industry's capital drought. For further information, please visit Celtic Pharma's website at www.celticpharma.com . Forw...Stanford scientists find new solutions for the arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic exposure to arsenic, according to the World Health Organization. Some health experts ca...Biofuels ignite food crisis debate
Taking up valuable land and growing edible crops for biofuels poses a dilemma: Is it ethical to produce inefficient renewable energies at the expense of an already malnourished population? David Pimentel and his colleagues from Cornell University in New York highlight the problems linked to conver...McGill conference on Global Food Crisis draws impressive list of international participants
McGill University's upcoming Conference on Global Food Security (Sept. 24-26) has attracted a long list of important players in key organizations around the world to discuss solutions to a problem that might have fallen off media radar screens, but which has not gone away. The latest developmen...Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: UN experts
Current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies on which over half the worlds population depend, United Nations University experts warn in a new report offering a major prescription for sweeping change. In a blunt asses...Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: U.N. experts
Current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies on which over half the worlds population depend, United Nations University experts warn in a new report offering a major prescription for sweeping change. In a blunt asses...It's official: The carbon crisis is lethal for coral reefs
THE SITUATION: The largest living structures on Earth and the millions of livelihoods which depend upon them are at risk, the most definitive review yet of the impact of rising carbon emissions on coral reefs has concluded. In a paper published in the prestigious Science Magazine today, 1...Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe's next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply. A major study by the Imperial College London, funded b...Bowman Global Change says public engagement critical to solving climate crisis
May 1, 2009 Signal Hill, CA Tom Bowman, president of Bowman Global Change, a firm that helps organizations make sustainable transformations, has written a paper defining the adjustments to climate change communication programs required to encourage sustainable behaviors and drive society's respo...Researchers document world's mammals in crisis
TEMPE, Ariz. From majestic African elephants to tiny and often unappreciated rodents, mammals on Earth are in a state of crisis. One in four mammal species on Earth is being pushed to extinction, according to the Global Mammal Assessment, the most comprehensive assessment of the world's mammals. ...Experts to discuss global water crisis
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 -- Water is a fundamental need of all life on our planet; however in this age, the issue of fresh water has become one of conflict and tension. Global water policies are failing to meet the needs of populations, while ecosystems are paying a severe price for the lack of innovati...Global Financial Crisis Making Biotech Business Model Unsustainable, According to Ernst & Young
Deep financing challenges separate haves and have-nots and accelerates move to sustainable models BOSTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial performance in 2008, according to Beyond borders: Global biotechno...European Airports Actively Engaging on Reducing CO2, Despite the Crisis
This time last year, European airports adopted a landmark environmental resolution, committing to reduce their carbon emissions, with the ultimate goal of becoming carbon neutral. This resolution also committed airport trade body ACI EUROPE to develop, within a year, a European-wide accreditation...Life Science Labs Reacting to the Economic Crisis
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists engaged in biological research and drug discovery are bracing for expected cuts in their 2009 lab budgets. BioInformatics, LLC ( www.gene2drug.com ), the premier research and advisory firm serving the life science market, has released preliminary...Countering an approaching water crisis
As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions. Mark Shannon of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joined a slate of world leaders ...Wisconsin crisis hotline gets Web-based integration
Wisconsins 211 crisis and community service hotline will soon have a common data repository and may one day interact with those in other states. Community TechKnowledge , of Austin, Texas, has sold the state software that will let it create a database of the systems callers and programs and link...Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Announces Closing of Private Placement Financing Agreement
... of the product candidates is designed with advantages over currently marketed products in major markets including traumatic brain injury, sickle cell crisis pain, trauma, wound care, decompression sickness, acute respiratory distress syndrome, stroke, myocardial infarction, surgery, diabetes and cosmetic a...STALLERGENES: Strong Sales Growth in 1st Half-Year: up 12% Full-Year Guidance Maintained
...erate in Southern Europe (up 9%). In addition to the consequences of weak pollen seasons in 2008, these markets appeared more affected by the economic crisis in a context of partial reimbursement (Italy and Spain). The decline in "Other markets", a very diverse group whose performance is volatile, wa...New RISI Report Analyzes South American Tree Farm and Biomass Energy Investment Opportunities
...ation development, and which countries/regions offer the best opportunities for this type of new project? What impact has the current financial crisis had on forest industry development, product markets, and plantation log prices in South America? What are the primary drivers of plantation deve...