Day: August 20, 2023

Climate Change
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As the Climate Changes, How Doctors Treat Patients, and Medical Program Curricula, are Evolving

NEW YORK (AP) — In the 1990s, two hurricanes devastated Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean, wiping entire communities off the map and killing dozens of people. “Everything was just decimated,” Malama Tafuna’i, a primary care physician in Apia, the territory’s capital, said. “It looked like a bomb had gone off.” A young girl at […]

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The 2°C Climate Challenge: Is Global Warming Target a Financial Time Bomb?

The economic feasibility of the climate change targets specified in the Paris Agreement depends on the prioritization of non-market elements like human health and biodiversity conservation, according to a recent study led by Dr. Taikan Oki, ex-Senior Vice-Rector of United Nations University, Japan, and published in IOP Publishing’s academic journal Environmental Research Letters. A team of […]

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