Engines idling in New York despite law CNN By putting air-quality monitors in backpacks on pregnant mothers in New York, researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health have shown that fetuses exposed to greater pollution in the womb are more likely to experience ...
Sloan-Kettering Chief Is Accused of Taking Research New York Times The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania, over accusations that he walked away with groundbreaking research and ...
Child abuse experts calls for US campaign Chicago Tribune NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly 4600 US children were hospitalized with broken bones, traumatic brain injury and other serious damage caused by physical abuse in 2006, according to a new report. Babies younger than one were the most common victims, ... Thousands of US Kids Hospitalized for AbuseU.S. News & World Report
Many kids still exposed to secondhand smoke in cars Chicago Tribune NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new government study reports that while fewer kids and teens are getting exposed to secondhand smoke while riding in the car, rates of exposure are still high enough to warrant concern. The authors recommend that more ...
February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Outcome Buffalo ALBANY, NY— The 12th annual observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is Tuesday, Feb. 7 – a time to recognize the disproportionately heavy toll the HIV epidemic has taken on African Americans and to encourage people to get educated, ...