Advisers knock Katrina health tests

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The Environmental Protection Agency did not have any emergency plan in place and did not test for any immediate health threats, when New Orleans was flooded, after Hurricane Katrina. The residents are returning to the city, as the floodwaters have receded, the agency has to focus on longer-term health risks, due to the mould rampant in people's house, which has left the walls green, purple and black and people could be harmed by trying to remove swathes of mould without respirators.

Strategy & planning, Louisiana, Health aspects, Planning, Environmental aspects, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Company business planning, Disaster victims, Hurricane Katrina, 2005

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Chemistry society goes head to head with NIH in fight over public database

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The American Chemical Society reported that a new publicly funded database of molecules called as PubChem, a free database launched by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) threatens its own fee-based Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). CAS contains around 25 million molecules whereas the free one, PubChem contains only about 650,000 molecules.

General services, Chemicals & Allied Products, Chemical Manufacturing, CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, Chemicals, Company systems management, Information management, United States. National Institutes of Health, Databases, Database, CD-ROM catalog, CD-ROM database

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The war against wounds

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The low fatality rate of U.S. soldiers in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is due to better armor, logistics and medical tools. Redesigned tourniquets, advanced clotting aids and transfusion fluids are among the advanced devices used for better and effective trauma care of wounded military personnel.

Management dynamics, Care and treatment, Evaluation, Practice, Medicine, Military, Military medicine, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-, Hospitals, Military, Military hospitals, Iraq War, 2003-, Wounded military personnel, Military physicians

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