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History of the use of medicinal plants

Low Impact

This article explores the history of the legal rights of herbalists to practise, and looks particularly at the use of medicinal plants in wartime Britain. The documentation of the use of herbs in Britain in the two World Wars reminds us that we still have our own medicinal resources here in the UK.

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54gene closes $15 million to accelerate genomics research in Africa

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, April 15 – Medicine is moving towards customized treatments and drugs based on genetic research. The Nigerian startup is building Africa’s first biobank to serve as a database for medical companies developing new therapeutics. 54gene wants to ensure that African patients aren’t left out of the breakthroughs.

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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Now this study, led by Professor Yuming Guo, from the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, and published in Lancet Planetary Health , provides a map of how PM 2.5 µg/m 3 ), followed by northern Africa (30.1 concentrations globally, according to Professor Guo. The highest PM 2.5

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‘A common germ pool’: The frightening origins of the coronavirus

Grist

billion people, and we’re really destroying the natural habitat of lots and lots and lots of other species,” said Frank Snowden, a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at Yale University. But the new ban reportedly leaves loopholes for animals used in traditional Chinese medicine.)

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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease

Grist

There are estimates of billions of additional people at risk of dengue fever later in the century,” Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington and a co-author of the report, said on Sunday. So are serious water-borne diseases such as vibriosis and cholera, which cause nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

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Na’im Merchant Is Advancing a Blueprint for Equitable Carbon Removal Policy

Elemental Excelerator

My previous career in public health had me working and living in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that would be worst impacted by climate change — and indeed are facing these impacts very acutely today. We’ll be locked in to whatever temperatures we’re experiencing when we get to zero.

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Extinction The Facts explores the global extinction crisis and its consequences

AGreenLiving

In the Amazon, in Africa, in the Arctic ; it’s happening not at one place and not with one group of organisms, but with all biodiversity, everywhere on the planet.” Professor Elizabeth Hadly, a biologist at Stanford University, said one of the most concerning aspects of this decline is that it’s happening simultaneously around the world. “In