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Environmental factors have deep links with acute, chronic diseases (Express India)

An Indo-US joint workshop, the first of its kind, on the environmental risks of the respiratory diseases started here on Friday.

Hanover Public Utilities' Whitley earns regional Environmental Protection award (Hanover Herald-Progress)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored a Hanover County employee at a ceremony held Aug. 27 at the Hanover Administration building.

UW doctoral student in environmental health to receive 2008 Bullitt Foundation prize (UW News)

Clarita Lefthand, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, will receive the second annual Bullitt Environmental Prize at an awards dinner to be held Sept. 9 in Seattle. The cash award of $100,000 distributed over two years is in recognition of Lefthand's ...

NSF Funds 3-Year Study Of Weather, Climate Change Computation In Collaboration With NCAR, COLA And UC-Berkeley (Medical News Today)

The development of powerful supercomputers capable of analyzing decades of data in the blink of an eye mark a technological milestone capable of bringing comprehensive changes to science, medicine, engineering, and business worldwide.

Flawed science hinders look at pollution, health problems in Great Lakes, panel says (Wisconsin State Journal)

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. The Institute of Medicine said drafts of a report still under development by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were deeply flawed. Shortcomings ...