Search Results for: Environmental health

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY consumption is still rising in the European Union, says a new European Environment Agency report, which blames transport growth for the problem; it says energy efficiency is improving only slowly and renewable energies need to expand by at least double the current rate if targets for boosting their market shares by 2010 are to be reached.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A CRACKDOWN on healthcare fraud netted the US government more than US$1.3 billion (GBPounds880 million) last year, according to recently released federal statistics. Efforts to better detect and eliminate health care fraud grew over the last five years, due, says Washington, to the establishment of its national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program under the Clinton administration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE Harvest Centres, a network of global food and environmental research organisations, has launched a new online search tool in Rome allowing users to search the rich reserves of online material about harvest performance worldwide. *More information: http://infofinder.cgiar.org…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation boss Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland has presented international football federation FIFA with her Director General’s Award for opposing tobacco use, following the banning of smoking and cigarette advertising at this year’s World Cup. Previous recipients of the award have included the King of Thailand and the current Foreign Minister of South Africa.…

Keith Nuthall
A EUROPEAN Union research project is about to be launched, which will create a new sophisticated model for reducing tyre noise. This ‘microscopic road traffic noise-modelling project,’ (ROTRANOMO), will consider the type of vehicle, tyre-road interaction, traffic management, driver behaviour, environmental planning and vehicle structure changes to develop a more effective noise calculation model.…