Seattle asthma project helps families clean up indoor air

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The Seattle-based program is helping the low-income families combat asthma by making their indoor environment healthier which has already served 350 families. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences funds the project where the main cost of the program is the salaries of the community health workers who visit families and educate them on making their homes healthier.

Services information, HEALTH SERVICES, Services, Health care industry, Asthma

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Distortion, suppression of science alleged: politics outweighing science in policy decisions, report says

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The report, eScientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science' released by the Union Concerned of Scientist documented that the decisions made by the administration officials were against the documented scientific research. Thus, the scientific integrity of federal policymaking was discontinued for policy decisions.

Legal issues & crime, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Government domestic functions, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Scientists, Rules of Evidence, Company legal issue, Investigations, Discipline, Science and technology policy, Bush, George W., Evidence (Law)

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TB remains a formidable foe despite global health advances

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The World Health Organization report reveals that parts of Central Europe and Central Asia are 10 times more likely to have multi drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) than the other parts of the world. The answer to this is a control strategy called DOTS or directly observed therapy.

Tuberculosis

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