Sentences with phrase «implications on human health»

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The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy held a conference in 2001 to celebrate 10 years of conducting research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the Future.

His research focuses on the upper limits to human longevity, the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, as well as the pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people.

The findings have implications for the climate and weather of both planets and, potentially, human health here on Earth.

Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in scihuman germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in sciHuman Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.

A new study on the Northern Hemisphere's mercury has troubling implications for wildlife and human health

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Influence of diet on the gut microbiome and implications for human health.

Authors offer their unique perspectives on the evolution of the human diet and the implications of recent changes in diet for health and nutrition today.

National Reading Panel (U.S.)(2000) «Teaching children to read: An evidence - based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction», Washington DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 4 - 27.

Eugenics, by definition, advocates taking on certain costs — whether the economic price tag or the unpleasant moral implications of sterilizing hundreds of thousands of human beings — in the pursuit of racial purity, public health, reduced economic drag over the long term, etc..

Call on parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. to also consider and address the health, human rights and security implications of climate change, including the need to prepare communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the need to create a legal framework to protect the human rights of those left stateless as a result of climate change.

Climate change is taking a toll on human health, and some leaders in the public health community have urged their colleagues to give voice to its health implications.

Although President Obama defended the new rules on the basis that they were necessary to prevent dangerous climate change, that time was running out to do so, and that the rules would protect human health of US citizens, the speech failed to develop some of the obvious profound implications for climate policy of the conclusion that climate change is a moral problem, although President Obama did assert twice in the speech that climate change is a moral problem.

Her previous research centered on sustainable transportation policy Los Angeles, with a focus on fine particulate pollution and its negative human health implications.

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, through the Environmental Protection Agency, released a major scientifically based assessment report on the implications of global climate change for human health and public welfare.

This guidance document examines the main commercially available renewable and non-renewable power generation technologies, analysing their GHG emissions, but also trade - offs in terms of: 1) environmental impacts (impacts on ecosystems, eutrophication and acidification, etc.), 2) impacts on human health (particulates, toxicity) and 3) resource use implications (concrete, metals, energy intensity, water use and land use).

«The fertilization effect of rising CO2 on poison ivy... and the shift toward a more allergenic form of urushiol have important implications for the future health of both humans and forests,» the study concludes.

The Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC to consider the possible infectious disease impacts of global climate change and extreme weather events on human, animal, and plant health, as well as their expected implications for global and national security.