Disease-Fighting Anti-Oxidants Discovered In Pure Maple Syrup
Before you dig in to your next stack of French toast or waffles, you might want to pour on pure maple syrup. That’s because University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram, who specializes in medicinal plant research, has found more than 20 compounds in maple syrup from Canada that have been linked to human health, [...]
Deteriorating Water Quality Threatens Global Gains Made Towards Access To Safe Drinking Water
While almost 5.9 billion people or 87 per cent of the world’s population now have access to an improved drinking water source, the risk of water pollution remains, often due to environmental factors such as increasing urbanization, industrialization and poor sanitation…
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Why Asthma's On The Rise And The New Asthma Treatments
The incidence of asthma has more than doubled – from 3% to 7.5% since 1980. Believe it or not, nearly 25 million people in the United States are asthma sufferers. And while there’s no shortage of theories about why asthma is becoming a major health concern, there is a shortage [...]
BLF Supports Fresh Calls To Tackle Air Pollution
The British Lung Foundation (BLF) welcomes the Environmental Audit Committee report, out today, which raises awareness of the importance of tackling air pollution in the UK. The report says that more could be done to prevent the early deaths of up to 50,000 people each year hastened by air pollution…
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Tsunami Generator Will Help Protect Against Future Catastrophe
A unique wave-generating machine that mimics the activity of real-life tsunamis with unprecedented realism has been used successfully in an Oxfordshire laboratory. The simulator has copied the behaviour of the first massive wave of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami…
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