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Friday, 11 October 2013

Climate Report Emphasizes Urgency - For Immediate Action

English: 1993-2010 sea level trends(mm/year). Data source:http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/LSA_SLR_maps.php (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Bangkok is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, home to more than eight million people. However, a new report released by the World Bank today paints a grim picture for the Thai capital. It notes that, without adaptation, a predicted 15cm sea-level rise by the 2030s coupled with extreme rainfall events could inundate 40% of the Thai capital and almost 70% of Bangkok by the 2080s. While I certainly hope it doesn't happen, words cannot describe the impact this would have on the lives and livelihoods of people residing in this city. And Thailand isn't the only country that could be affected by rising temperatures.

New Climate Report Emphasizes Urgency

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The report - Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience - was commissioned by the World Bank's Global Expert Team on Climate Change Adaptation and prepared by a team of scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics. It looks at the latest peer-reviewed science and with the aid of advanced computer simulations looks at the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C, and 4°C warming across three regions – Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia. It focuses on the lives and livelihoods of people in the developing world by analyzing the risks to agriculture and food security in sub-Saharan Africa; the rise in sea-level, bleaching of coral reefs and their impact on coastal communities in South East Asia; and the impact of fluctuating rainfall patterns on food production in South Asia. The poor and the vulnerable are the ones that will be most affected by the impacts of climate change.

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GM Cabbage with Scorpion Poison Coming Soon

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Agribusiness is in a mad rush to take over the earth, and seems willing to stop at nothing. Coming soon is cabbage with scorpion poison engineered in every cell. Of course, they claim it's safe and will result in less pesticide use, but history and logic say otherwise. Who will wake from the insane mating between Agribiz and GMOs?

Alacrán, scorpion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Get ready for genetically engineered cabbages that come complete with their own scorpion poison, just for you to eat. It's touted as requiring less pesticide use and being, of course, completely safe. Close investigation, though, indicates that neither claim is likely true.

A pesticide made with scorpion poison genetically engineered into a virus was first tested back in 1994. Interestingly, the scientists who sprayed the test field wore full body suits to protect them from this "harmless" poison. One must wonder at just how safe it could be when the developers themselves don't trust it more than that! Of course, the head of the trial, Professor David Bishop, insisted that the trial was safe—though he himself opted to take a vacation, rather than be there for it.

In the newer incarnation of scorpion poison genetic engineering, genes from the scorpion, Androctonus australus hector, for production of poison are being genetically engineered into cabbages. The goal is to produce them for public consumption. With the FDA's history of rubberstamp approvals for genetically modified crops, it seems unlikely that anything will interfere with their production and entry into a supermarket near you.

GM Cabbage with Scorpion Poison Coming Soon.

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Doctors demand more Money and some want us to pay for our appointments “Are they having a laugh”…

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Doctors demand more Money and some want us to pay for our appointments "Are they having a laugh"…

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How dare they demand more bloody money in the year that various reports have concluded that a vast amount of people died unnecessarily in loads of hospitals up and down the country, incompetence and diabolical neglect were the basic reasons why patients died, lack of empathy for the vulnerable in our society?

Doctors and Nurses will say they're overworked, not enough nurses and doctors etc etc to provide safe care for patients, If that's the case instead of moaning about low pay and the unsocial hours which doctors have always worked maybe they should have gone on strike and demanded the government put more money into more nurses and doctors and to stop trying to turn the NHS into another profit driven Tory share scheme?

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It;s also been brought to my attention today by a loyal contributor to this site that GPs now think you and I should be charged for appointments at their surgeries on a scale that goes from £10 quid upwards, medicine is not advancing but going back to the days of Victoria, eventually the only healthy people will be the ones who can afford to go to bloody "Harley St"?

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California Medical Association - Uses Clout To Water Down/Defeat Safety Measures -in Sacramento

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We couldn't let them get away with it. The California Medical Association used its clout to water down or defeat tough patient safety measures in Sacramento. That's why we are in Disneyland at the medical association's convention today fighting back by releasing a short, funny musical video.

"Pee In A Cup The Musical Part I" points out that police, firefighters, bus drivers, and Disney workers all must submit to drug testing, but not doctors. Not yet.

We're driving around Disneyland all weekend with a mobile billboard truck playing the ad. Watch the first part of "Pee In A Cup" today here, and return to see the next parts over the next two days. Or signup to receive them in your email.

The confab in the Magic Kingdom is a perfect metaphor for the fantasyland the state's medical establishment has been living in when it comes to threats to patients today.

Governor Jerry Brown recently vetoed a simple bill sending coroners' reports about prescription drug overdose deaths to the state medical board because the doctors undermined it. Legislation mandating that doctors check the electronic prescription drug database, known as CURES, about a patients' history before prescribing narcotics didn't make it out of the California Senate because the medical association stopped it.

The only prognosis is that while today's doctors are dealing with modern problems the Medical Association is still stuck in Walt Disney's 1950s mentality that physicians should never be told what to do or have anyone looking over their shoulder, even if it's a coroner.

Substance abuse among doctors runs as high as 18% of physicians according to the California Medical Board.

The Medical Association has long sought to coddle physicians who abuse alcohol and drugs.

One father, who lost two young children to an addict's driving and reckless prescribing, has had enough. Bob Pack is now circulating a ballot measure to require mandatory drug and alcohol testing for doctors and modernize patient safety laws.

Nothing is likely to shake the doctors in Disneyland so much as having to pee in a cup.

Watch the video and let your doctor know what you think.

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Jamie

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Saturday, 27 July 2013

Valley fever: An incurable illness in the dust!

San Joaquin Valley, California. Children of migrant agricultural workers. - NARA - 521811 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cases of an incurable illness called valley fever are multiplying at a mystifying rate in the American south-west. Six states are affected, and Mexico too, but few places have been hit as hard as one remote city.

Even in sweltering heat, the wind brings no respite to Avenal.

The gusts are warm, like a hair-dryer, and they carry an invisible threat that has claimed and disrupted many lives

The tiny city of 14,000 people, nestling in a dip in the floor of the San Joaquin Valley, California, is what experts refer to as a "hot zone" for coccidioidomycosis - an illness caused by the inhalation of tiny fungal spores that usually reside in the soil.

Described by the Centers for Disease Control as a silent epidemic, 22,401 new infections were recorded across the US in 2011, mostly in the south-west, up tenfold from 1998.

Although two-thirds of those infected suffer no symptoms, and the illness is not contagious, about 160 people die each year when the fungus spreads beyond the lungs to the brain.

Avenal is at the centre of the epidemic. While millions flock to the famous Californian beaches a couple of hours to the west and to Yosemite National Park to the east, they rarely linger in the San Joaquin Valley, the state's agricultural heartland. Avenal has the air of a forgotten place.

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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Smoking moms' offspring more likely to be treated for mental problems. — Environmental Health News

Overall, this is the first study to report a link between prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke and mental health problems during late childhood and adolescence. Measuring the use of prescription medications is a good indicator of psychiatric health effects, and with this study, allowed researchers to examine effects on milder mental health problems that don't require hospitalisation.

In addition, the more a mother smoked, the more her children used medications. Exposure to smoke from more than 10 cigarettes per day related to longer continuous use of the drugs – specifically the stimulants. More cigarettes were also associated with the increased use of multiple drugs by the same individual.

Prenatal cigarette smoke exposure is related to a variety of negative health outcomes in the fetal, including low or delayed foetal growth and development. Long-term health issues can include behavioural problems, attention issues and mental health problems. These effects are known because young adults exposed to smoking while in the womb have increased hospital care for mental health disorders.

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Banned Pesticide Use Remains High in CA Strawberry Fields - New America Media

Banned Pesticide Use Remains High in CA Strawberry Fields - New America Media

An analysis of state pesticide-use data revealed that in Monterey County, the state’s main strawberry production area, methyl bromide use has fallen only 24 percent over the decade, from roughly 1.7 million pounds in 1999 to to 1.3 million pounds in 2009.

Adjacent Santa Cruz County, another top strawberry-producing region, saw a similar percentage drop in usage, to about 400,000 pounds from 564,000 pounds in 1999. San Luis Obispo County actually saw an up tick, to roughly 125,000 pounds in 2009 from 110,000 pounds a decade earlier.

“While overall the use of methyl bromide has declined in recent years in California, [its] use in certain crops, including strawberries, has declined very little," said Michael Marsh, a Salinas-based attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., a public interest law firm that advocates on behalf of farmworkers. "And when you look at overall use of fumigants, including methyl bromide, chloropicrin and Telone, you find that the amount of dangerous fumigants used is much higher than it was 20 years ago."

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