Environmental Health--This Week's News
Genes don't treat gender the same
New UCLA study raises idea of sex-specific drugs
7/8/06 Seattle PI
Genetic differences between men and women hardly end at the X and Y chromosomes. A new study by researchers at UCLA has determined that thousands of human genes behave differently in the corresponding organs of males and females -- even in fat and muscle tissue.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/276899_gendergenes08.html
Columbia River toxins moving up food chain
7/10/06 Seattle Times
First were the crayfish near Bonneville Dam, so loaded with toxins that scientists wondered how they could still be alive.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003116801_columbia10m.html
Arsenic-poisoning lawsuit rejected by Britain
7/10/06 Mail & Guardian
Britain has thrown out a lawsuit worth millions of pounds in compensation to victims of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=276776
Who Really Benefits From School Soda Contracts?
Exclusive contracts with soda companies are one of the means many school districts have used to replace loss of funding. But when cash-strapped schools make deals with beverage companies, schools and students lose out, says Nicola Pinson in an article in the summer issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.http://news.publiceducation.org/t/5220/95085/133/0/
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity.
With grants and other incentives, Chicago leads the nation in installing green roofs.
7/10/06 Christian Scientist Monitor
Monarch butterflies flit past little bluestem. Bees fly from prairie clover to purple coneflowers. A small hawthorn tree rises from a mound. The expanse of native plants and grasses isn't a park, but the top of City Hall, the premier green roof in a city that is making green building a civic cornerstone.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html
EH Headlines are reprinted from the University of Washington's Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health.
New UCLA study raises idea of sex-specific drugs
7/8/06 Seattle PI
Genetic differences between men and women hardly end at the X and Y chromosomes. A new study by researchers at UCLA has determined that thousands of human genes behave differently in the corresponding organs of males and females -- even in fat and muscle tissue.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/276899_gendergenes08.html
Columbia River toxins moving up food chain
7/10/06 Seattle Times
First were the crayfish near Bonneville Dam, so loaded with toxins that scientists wondered how they could still be alive.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003116801_columbia10m.html
Arsenic-poisoning lawsuit rejected by Britain
7/10/06 Mail & Guardian
Britain has thrown out a lawsuit worth millions of pounds in compensation to victims of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=276776
Who Really Benefits From School Soda Contracts?
Exclusive contracts with soda companies are one of the means many school districts have used to replace loss of funding. But when cash-strapped schools make deals with beverage companies, schools and students lose out, says Nicola Pinson in an article in the summer issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.http://news.publiceducation.org/t/5220/95085/133/0/
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity.
With grants and other incentives, Chicago leads the nation in installing green roofs.
7/10/06 Christian Scientist Monitor
Monarch butterflies flit past little bluestem. Bees fly from prairie clover to purple coneflowers. A small hawthorn tree rises from a mound. The expanse of native plants and grasses isn't a park, but the top of City Hall, the premier green roof in a city that is making green building a civic cornerstone.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html
EH Headlines are reprinted from the University of Washington's Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health.
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