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7-Nov-2024

Soil sampling in Houston’s Greater Fifth Ward reveals toxic levels of lead in yards, play areas

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study results showed the highest detectable concentrations of heavy metals were lead, barium and chromium. All samples except for lead had less than or the same levels expected for an urban area.The median levels of lead detected in seven samples from play areas (400 mg/kg) and three samples from residential areas (1200 mg/kg) were four times the levels for Texas overall. And these likely were underestimated because they did not account for lead-based paint or automotive fuel.

Journal: Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

7-Nov-2024

Local innovators awarded $75,000 to combat community health disparities

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator grants awarded for innovative local business solutions addressing health inequities

7-Nov-2024

United Nations ratifies framework to protect people on cash app

University of Florida
Business Announcement

University of Florida cybersecurity professor Kevin Butler developed the framework, which spells out guidance for countries to prevent fraud and abuse on mobile cash apps. Cash apps are the prominent form of banking in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia and can leave people vulnerable to losing their life savings.

7-Nov-2024

Do no harm: Researchers help doctors identify words they should never say to patients

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Seriously ill patients and family members face intense emotional suffering, and researchers, including a Texas A&M University professor, say clinicians must engage in “compassionate communication” as part of the treatment process. They have identified so-called “never words” that should not be said under any circumstances; offer methods for clinicians to identify their own never words; and provide more helpful language to use instead.

Journal: Mayo Clinic Proceedings

7-Nov-2024

New PFAS removal process aims to stamp out pollution ahead of semiconductor industry growth

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate and destroy mixtures of diverse chemicals known as PFAS — including the increasingly prevalent ultra-short-chain PFAS — from water in a single process. This new development is poised to address the growing industrial problem of contamination with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, particularly in semiconductor manufacturing.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

7-Nov-2024

Virginia Tech selected to lead $11.6 million research study for industrial decarbonization in the Roanoke Valley

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

The project, dubbed Project CARDINAL, would prevent an estimated 50 million metric tons of carbon from going into the atmosphere in the next three decades.

6-Nov-2024

Effects of preterm birth extend into adulthood, study finds

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By analyzing all live births in Canada over a six-year period and following children for more than two decades, researchers found that preterm births and the related cognitive, development and physical health impacts of prematurity are associated with lower income, employment and university enrollment

Individuals born before 37 weeks of gestation, considered to be preterm infants, have, on average, lower employment income, university enrollment and educational attainment through age 28, according to a new study publishing November 6, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Petros Pechlivanoglou of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Journal: PLOS One