Public Health

Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams

UN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to

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Vast energy value in human waste

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of human waste in low-resource countries

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‘Saving Brains’ of kids in developing countries: Grand Challenges Canada funds 14 bold new ideas

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 23 October 2013 4 projects nominated for grants up to $2 million; 10 projects awarded $270,000 Grand Challenges Canada, funded by

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Inventive: 102 bold new global health ideas win Grand Challenges Canada funding

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 29 April, 2013 59 creative, out-of-box health innovations devised in 13 low- and middle-income countries, plus 43 from Canada, share $10.9

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Mental disorders in developing nations: ‘the most neglected of neglected diseases’

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 10-Oct-2012 On World Mental Health Day, Grand Challenges Canada funds a burst of 15 innovative projects spanning the globe — Asia,

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The top 5 actions parents can take to reduce child exposure to toxic chemicals at home

Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment, Toronto 15-Jun-2011 If parents do just 5 things to safeguard their kids’ health: Dust, use green cleaning products,

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Avoid risking children’s health during home energy retrofits, renovations, experts urge

Canadian Environmental Law Association, Toronto Training, caution essential to avoid release of brain-damaging lead, other toxic substances Home energy retrofits tackle climate change and when

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Canada’s role grows amid looming world water shortages in some places, more flooding in others

Canadian Water NetworkWaterloo, Ontario27-Feb-2011 $1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; Global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed

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Studies detail triumphs, troubles of African innovators creating products for local health needs

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 12 December 2010 Africans strengthen ability to meet health needs in sub-Sahara with homegrown science solutions, but many products stagnate

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Global health vs. global wealth: Looming choice for health firms in developing countries

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 14 September 2010 The lure of greater profits elsewhere in the world may divert bio-pharmaceutical firms in developing countries from

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Cheaper drugs, vaccines forecast as collaborations grow between developing countries’ biotech firms

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 10 May 2010 ‘South-South’ biotech collaborations boost health, economies: Study The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that

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Powerful new world alliance of global health researchers announce landmark pact on priorities

16-Nov-2009 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Agencies managing 80 percent of global public health research funding set first priorities for common, concerted efforts on heart

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Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight ‘neglected’ diseases of poor: study

McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health 3 Nov 2009 Experts propose ‘Global Health Accellerator’ to help new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines reach distant markets Research firms in

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Health biotech firms with developing country partners better postitioned to innovate, prosper

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 9 Sep 2009 Lower manufacturing, clinical trial, R&D costs of developing country partners equal major opportunities to advance global health,

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Health research agencies form global alliance to curb humanity’s most fatal diseases

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases London / Washington / Toronto 15-Jun-2009 Six of the world’s foremost health agencies, collectively managing an estimated 80% of all

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Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related

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Prepare public for bird flu, experts urge governments

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 27 Nov 2005 Ethicists offer guide to decision-making in predicted flu pandemic; quarantine, duty to care, resource allocations among key

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Ethical guidelines needed before ‘nutrigenomic’ groceries come to market

Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto 03 Nov 03 New research designed to help consumers create customized diets based on their genetic make up will

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New guidelines for MDs draw line between relief of suffering and euthanasia

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 12 Sept 2002 Peter A. Singer Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is

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