Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has revealed that the European Commission “will shortly launch a major advertising campaign to increase awareness among teenagers of the negative effects of tobacco consumption.” Speaking about the World No Smoking Day initiative, he said that the move was part of Brussels “tobacco control strategy.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS acts of international largesse go, the expansion of the European Union eastwards and southwards must rank as being one of the most generous in history. With research estimates claiming that the size of the EU budget will soar to accommodate the needs of the former communist republics, (plus Cyprus and Malta), we are talking Marshall Plan here; billions of Euro’s being transferred from national coffers in western Europe to the east, via Brussels.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SCI-FI flicks, the likes of Terminator II and Total Recall, feature futuresque scanning of objects and people to verify if they were porting any dangerous weapons or were lying about what they carrying in suspicious bags; now, this kind of portable and instant inspection has made it from the big screen to current security technology used daily in customs screenings.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE Power is to build a power generation plant worth between Sing. $50 million and $150 million, (Pounds 20m – pounds 60m), near Melbourne in Australia’s Victoria state. The eventual capacity of the open cycle gas turbine peaking power station will range from 90 megawatts (MW) to 270 MW, although the exact final capacity has yet to be decided.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NETWORK of noise experts funded by the European Union’s fifth framework programme for research is drawing up a plan for future noise research, to support the preparation of a new European Commission directive on the assessment and management of environmental noise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HANDBOOK on ‘Safety and health in small-scale surface mines’ has been published by the International Labour Organisation, which wants to improve the working conditions of the 13 million miners it says work in smaller operations. It especially addresses countries where health and safety regimes are weak, setting out basic principles where there is a lack of regulation and stresses the important role of mines inspectorates.…

Keith Nuthall
THE DEVELOPMENT of genetically engineered varieties of vines within the European Union has – in effect – been approved by the EU Council of Ministers, which has agreed detailed changes to the European directive on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NURSING homes in America’s south have seen their insurance liability rates pushed so high by "predatory" negligence claims and rise so high that many are being forced to take drastic measures.

Florida, a highly litigious and demographically older state, is now bereft of any state-residing insurers able to write long-term care liability insurance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS in Alberta, Canada, have discovered a novel and potentially revolutionary way to simultaneously sanitise two environmental hazards common to all oil producing regions that are also home to extensive beef industries: hydrocarbon contaminated earth and cattle dung.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL organisation is to be set up later this year to help developing country governments negotiate better deals for drug access, as well as helping local researchers to protect their ideas from being poached. The MIHR, (Management of Intellectual property in Health Research and development), will be set up by public health and intellectual property experts from Britain and the Netherlands, with the assistance of experts from Asia, Africa, south America and north America.…