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American Lung Association Experts To Testify At EPA Public Hearings Urging Stronger Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Standards
The American Lung Association will tell the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing today to adopt even stronger, health-based national air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than what the agency proposed. Lung Association leadership and healthy air advocates will call for tighter standards at the hearing that begins at 9:00 AM at the EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center located at 1 Potomac Yard, 2777 South Crystal Drive in Arlington, Va. Mary Partridge, American Lung Association National Board Chair, is scheduled to speak at 10:15 AM. The hearing will conclude at 9:00 PM.

Latest Updates From The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
Alzheimer imaging aficionados thronged to back-to-back meetings held recently in Seattle for a preview of the latest data from the Alzheimer"s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Launched in the fall of 2004 and set to conclude next year, the $64-million ADNI is comparing imaging methods and fluid biomarkers in the same set of people to determine which measures can best predict and track Alzheimer-disease clinical changes over time. The project is approaching the homestretch of data collection. By the fall of 2010, ADNI scientists will have collected three years of longitudinal data from more than 800 participants (about 200 normal, 400 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 200 with Alzheimer disease) at 59 U.S. and Canadian sites. The Seattle meetings featured preliminary analysis of the one-year data.
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishes Inaugural Issue Of Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
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Diarrhea Spreads In Parts Of Bangladesh In Cyclone Aila's Aftermath

Health officials on Sunday said that a diarrhea outbreak has spread across Bangladesh"s southwest due to the effects of Cyclone Aila, which hit parts of Bangladesh and India on May 25, AFP/Google.com reports. Diarrhea broke out at an "alarming rate" because inundation and water logging have destroyed large amounts of land and supplies of drinking water near Sundarbans, the world"s largest mangrove forest, according to health workers. "The situation is alarming. So far we have more than 5,000 people who are sick with diarrhea in this region. Another 3,000 have been treated for water borne diseases like dysentery," Lutfur Rahman Khan, the regional medic chief, said (AFP/Google.com, 5/31). On Friday, Reuters published an article describing relief agencies" fears about the emergence of disease in the aftermath of the cyclone. According to Reuters, aid workers and authorities were scrambling "to distribute relief to people in West Bengal and Bangladesh"s coastal belt," while fears were "growing for thousands of marooned families who are in more remote and inaccessible locations" (Bhalla, Reuters, 5/29). Bangladesh Requests Foreign Aid for Emergency Response On Sunday, Ruhal Haque, Bangaldesh"s health minister, said, "I am quite confident that the health situation will remain under control." He said that 891 medical teams were working in affected coastal areas and that health officials have been told to give maximum support to people who have been affected by the cyclone (Xinhua/CriEnglish.com, 6/1). However Abdur Razzak, Bangladesh"s food and disaster management minister, said that half a million people remain stranded because of the cyclone. "We are struggling to ensure supply of drinking water to the worst affected areas," he said, adding that shelter is also a problem. "We don"t need any food or relief, but we are going to seek foreign aid to build embankments and cyclone shelters. We have to build the embankments immediately to protect people from salty water," Razzak said ( AFP/Google.com, 6/1). U.S. Provides $295,000 in Assistance U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh James Moriarty on Monday issued a disaster declaration to provide emergency assistance worth about $295,000. According to the U.S. embassy, the emergency survival packs include plastic sheeting, eating utensils, candles, rope, soap, matches and mosquito netting to be distributed to victims in the southern districts (DPA/Monstersandcritics.com, 6/1). AFP/Google.com reports that almost 300 people have died as a result of Cyclone Aila. Indian officials said 125 people had died as a result of the cyclone (AFP/Google.com, 6/1). On Sunday, the Bangladeshi government said in a statement that 167 people had died and 7,108 people were injured (Government of Bangladesh release/ReliefWeb, 5/31). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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