• As many as 5.3 million people in U.S are living with Alzheimer’s.
• Alzheimer’s and dementia triple healthcare costs for Americans 65 and older.
• Every 70 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s.
• Alzheimer’s costs more than USD148 billion each year to Medicare, Medicaid and businesses.

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906.

Samantha

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World Sight Day

8 October 2009

World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. This year, it focuses on gender and eye health–equal access to care.

World Sight Day is the main advocacy event for “VISION 2020: The Right to Sight”, a global effort to prevent blindness. VISION 2020 is coordinated by WHO, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and public and private partners.

Samantha

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World Heart Day

27 September 2009

Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s largest killers, claiming 17.5 million lives a year. Risk factors for heart disease and stroke include raised blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels, smoking, inadequate intake of fruit and vegetables, overweight, obesity and physical inactivity.

In partnership with WHO, the World Heart Federation organizes awareness events in more than 100 countries - including health checks, organized walks, runs and fitness sessions, public talks, stage shows, scientific forums, exhibitions, concerts, carnivals and sports tournaments.

Samantha

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Wind could meet China’s electricity needs by 2030: study

by Staff Writers
Chicago (AFP) Sept 10, 2009
China could meet all of its future electricity needs with wind power if the government continues to subsidize the development of wind farms with price guarantees, a study published Thursday has found.Already the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China’s electricity needs are expected to double in the next two decades and it is currently adding several new coal-fired power plants to its grid every week.

“The real question for the globe is: What alternatives does China have?” said lead author Michael McElroy of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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http://www.winddaily.com/reports/Wind_could_meet_Chinas_electricity_needs_by_2030_study_999.html

Samantha

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Japanese carbon cut may change UN climate poker

by Staff Writers
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2009
Japan’s announcement Monday of a 25-percent cut in its greenhouse gas emissions could be a game-changer at the UN showdown on climate change in Copenhagen in December, observers said.It could sweep away the who-jumps-first obsession that has bedevilled the world climate talks for nearly two years, they said.

“For a long time, everybody has been waiting for everybody else to move in the negotiations…. At this crucial point, the strong message from Japan……

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Japanese_carbon_cut_may_change_UN_climate_poker_999.html

Samantha

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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 9

28 AUGUST 2009 | GENEVA — Monitoring of outbreaks from different parts of the world provides sufficient information to make some tentative conclusions about how the influenza pandemic might evolve in the coming months.

WHO is advising countries in the northern hemisphere to prepare for a second wave of pandemic spread. Countries with tropical climates, where the pandemic virus arrived later than elsewhere, also need to prepare for an increasing number of cases.

Countries in temperate parts of the southern hemisphere should remain vigilant. As experience has shown, localized “hot spots” of increasing transmission can continue to occur even when the pandemic has peaked at the national level.

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http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_second_wave_20090828/en/index.html

Samantha

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