Environment & Climate: Alternative energy: News Articles & Tips: Ecology environment air water pollution renewable alternative energy, solar power, effects and cause of global warming, climate crisis change, recycle, bio fuel. http://www.clipp.org Copyright http://www.clipp.org Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:34 +0100 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:23 +0100 FeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.2.0) http://www.clipp.org/news/content/325.php Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:23 +0100 http://www.clipp.org/health/content/99.php Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:00 +0100 http://www.clipp.org/health/content/98.php Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:15:51 +0100 A study carried out by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, shows that ‘Ovulation’ influences a woman’s lifestyle to a large extent. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/97.php Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:40:44 +0100 An oil company-sponsored report released yesterday, said that fighting global warming would actually benefit the British economy by enhancing its business potential and will not make it bankrupt, as widely believed. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/324.php Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:40:22 +0100 Researchers from Stanford University have found that changes in the facial bones and not the skin make us to look older and surgical face-lifts can only offer a temporary solution, as they do not concentrate on the facial bones underneath the skin. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/96.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:58:57 +0100 A new study has found that psoriasis, an immune-mediated disease that affects the skins and joints, could be a signal of a looming heart disease. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/95.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:58:38 +0100 A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, has found that vitamin K deficiency could increase the risk of osteoporosis in women. Osteoporosis is a disease of bone in which the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, affecting the bone microarchitecture, making them more susceptible to fracture. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/94.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:25:39 +0100 Experts say that outbreak of infectious diseases like dengue, chikungunya and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain caused viral infection) in India, are directly linked to global warming and climate change, which are creating favorable conditions for mosquitoes to breed and flourish. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/323.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:19:43 +0100 Nicardipine hydrochloride, a drug commonly used in the treatment of high blood pressure and angina (chest pain), can reverse the ‘no-reflow’ phenomenon that affects as many as 50,000 angioplasty patients, every year, according to researchers in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. This drug belongs to the class of ‘Calcium Channel Blockers’. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/93.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:19:03 +0100 A 13-year long study has found that women with a family history of lung cancer are at a greater risk of inheriting the disease. This form of cancer is the most lethal of all cancers and is responsible for over 3 million deaths around the world, every year. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/92.php Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:18:44 +0100 Researchers say that injecting gold into the knee joints of patients suffering from Osteoarthritis or degenerative arthritis could provide relief from pain and slow down the progress of the disease. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/90.php Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:43 +0100 French researchers have found that obese or overweight middle-aged people, fare poorly on memory, attention and learning ability tests, compared to their slimmer peers. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/91.php Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:25 +0100 Ischemic or coronary heart diseases are a major cause of death among elderly people in the developed world. It is a condition in which the blood supply to the heart is disrupted due to blockages in coronary arteries, leading to death of heart tissues fed by those arteries, resulting in myocardial infarction (heart attack). http://www.clipp.org/health/content/89.php Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:46:52 +0100 Dr. M.S.Swaminathan, a renowned Indian agricultural scientist and the head of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, fears that climate change triggered by global warming could hold back the rice production and productivity, substantially. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/322.php Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:35:02 +0100 A diet study carried out by U.S researchers, has found that ‘Mediterranean’ diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, olive oil, cereals and fish, lowers the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease substantially. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/88.php Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:54:03 +0100 A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, has found that pets actually reduce the allergy risks in humans by training our immune system to be less reactive to allergy triggers. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/87.php Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:19:32 +0100 Researchers at University of Chicago has found that, Naltrexone, a drug used in the management of alcohol and opioid (morphine, heroin etc.,) dependence, can be used to help women to quit smoking. Researchers, who were involved in this study, said that this drug was more effective in women than in men. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/85.php Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:34:32 +0100 The European Commission has proposed to create a €100-million global risk capital fund to enhance investments in renewable energy in poorer nations. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/321.php Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:29:30 +0100 Henipavirus is a genus containing two members, the Hendra virus and the Nipah virus, which are considered to be potential biological terror agents than can infect and kill thousands of people. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/82.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:04:03 +0100 Dengue fever, an acute feverish disease, transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, is threatening the second most populous country in the world, with many states in the country reporting outbreaks of this disease. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/83.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:03:47 +0100 The results of a large study conducted in U.S, has shown that women who eat fruits and vegetables regularly, have lower odds of developing painful gallstones (choleliths), crystalline stone-like structures formed within the body by buildup or concentration of normal or abnormal bile components. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/84.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:03:21 +0100 A new study has found that people who are emotionally ambivalent (experiencing a state of conflicting emotions at the same time, like feeling both love and hatred for an object or someone) are more creative than others who lack emotions, or those who experience only one emotion at a time. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/80.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:39:35 +0100 A 5.9 million-dollar national study on the causes of autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder, is currently underway in U.S. This is the largest study ever to be undertaken in U.S, on this disorder and will span for a period of five years. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/81.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:39:10 +0100 A new climate change report by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia’s main research agency, warns that higher temperatures and rising sea levels could devastate Asian economies, displacing millions of people and putting many more at risk to infectious diseases. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/320.php Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:38:53 +0100 ‘Start preparing for the next flu pandemic’, is the message from the organizer of an expedition to unearth samples of the devastating Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919. Kristy Duncan, a scientist at the University of Toronto, warns that it is just a matter of time before another deadly bird flu pandemic strikes the world. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/78.php Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:29:43 +0100 A British biotechnological firm, Intercytex, is in the process of developing an effective treatment to baldness, using a robot, which could grow hair follicle cells. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/79.php Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:29:17 +0100 After the latest session of a round of negotiations between the world’s biggest polluting countries, Tony Blair said that the world has finally started to recognize the scale of threat posed by climate change. http://www.clipp.org/news/content/319.php Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:28:58 +0100 A study published in the British Medical Journal says that breastfed children are more intelligent than the bottle-fed ones, but the content of the milk they receive, has nothing to do with their intelligence. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/77.php Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:16:42 +0100 Low cholesterol level in the body is good to the heart, but researchers have now found that it could also lower the risk of prostrate cancer. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/76.php Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:16:25 +0100 A new study has found that behavioral therapy might prove useful in treating insomnia in elderly people. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/74.php Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:02:53 +0100 A new research has found that cereal flakes are much healthier than puffs, even though the later tastes a lot better. The study suggests that the difference lies in the cooking techniques and its findings might help in developing healthier preparation methods for cold cereals and other processed foods. http://www.clipp.org/health/content/75.php Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:02:21 +0100