Fertile country: Babies linked to Colo. festival - MetroMix GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The effects of an annual music festival in Grand Junction, Colo., may appear months after the last act plays -- nine months, to be precise. A health official says her agency sees far more pregnant women in the weeks after ...
Oil extends slide into 2nd day, shedding up to $6 - Houston Chronicle NEW YORK — Oil prices fell as much as $6 a barrel Tuesday, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from oil's recent rally. A barrel of light, sweet crude for August ...
Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony - Forbes Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse ...
Tracking outbreaks on the Web - Boston Globe They call it "surveillance sans frontieres." Exhibit A is the SARS outbreak and how information on it spread. The deadly respiratory disease was first suspected from Chinese news stories about a steep rise in emergency department visits. Then media ...
Coalition calls for health care reforms - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A coalition of local groups today called for health care reforms as part of a national campaign aimed at making quality, affordable health care available to every American. At a news conference at the United Steelworkers Building, Downtown, William ...
G-8 sets goal to halve emissions by 2050 - International Herald Tribune In a victory for Bush, the declaration issued Tuesday adopted that line of thinking, as well as the White House contention that fighting global warming would require advances in clean technology, as well as conservation. But the Outreach 5 members ...
