since last few decades, the rapid industrialization has led to the development of many new chemicals, namely of which different kind of pesticides are of the most important ones. it is now evident that almost every food, agricultural product, water, soil and human body etc. is contaminated with some sort of chemical or pesticide. in some highly industrialized countries, new ailments have been r...

The recent report of poor iodine status in the UK is a wake-up call to health authorities in industrialized countries who have been slow to grasp that iodine deficiency (ID) is not confined to developing countries. Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway and now the UK are all mildly iodine deficient. In the US, iodine intakes have fallen, and it is uncertain whether status is adequate in pregn...

USA. We have benefited from conversations with James F. Burgess, Jr. and David C. Wheelock. We are grateful for financial support from the Belgian Government (" Projet d'Actions de Recherche Concertées, PARC no. 93/98–164), and from the Management Science Group, US Department of Veterans Affairs. We alone, of course, are responsible for any remaining errors in the current text.

Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies. We start with the Kyoto scenario where all Annex B industrialized countries (including the US) are assumed to individually meet their mandatory K...

that repeatedly have proven this assumption to be false and a world literature replete with reports of the success of directly observed therapy, these centers contend that there is no firm evidence demonstrating that directly observed therapy is both effective and essential in the treatment of tuberculosis. It is time for physician organizations from all parts of the international community to ...

To determine the prevalence of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in industrialized nations, we analyzed the excretion of HEV strains by the populations of Spain, France, Greece, Sweden, and the United States. Twenty of 46 (43.5%) urban sewage samples collected in Barcelona from 1994 to 2002 tested positive for HEV. We identified 15 HEV strains, which were similar to two HEV isolates previously described ...