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Ethnomedicinal Plants of North Eastern Himalayan Region of India to Combat Hypertension
Published in Amit Baran Sharangi, K. V. Peter, Medicinal Plants, 2023
Pintubala Kshetri, K. Tamreihao, Subhra Saikat Roy, Thangjam Surchandra Singh, Susheel Kumar Sharma, Meraj Alam Ansari
However, the main challenges for using the TM are the lack of scientific knowledge underlying the molecular mechanisms for mitigation of the disease, dosage, presence of active phytochemical compound(s), quality control, etc. In some cases, plants of close species are so similar that is difficult to differentiate morphologically which may to lead to application of wrong species. Hence, proper scientific identification of the plant is required in order to combat hypertension. Another important challenge is that plants are slow-growing species and most of these ethnomedicinal plants are confined in a specific region or habitat. So, overexploitation will lead to the extinction of indigenous, rare, ethnomedicinal plants disturbing the biodiversity as well as increasing the environmental damage. For example, in India, Clerodendrum colebrookianum having many medicinal properties including hypotensive activity is confined in the NER and is now placed under vulnerable category.
The transformation and fragmentation of Canadian agriculture
Published in Alan Hall, The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk, 2020
What we saw then within the government and agri-business sustainability and environmental discourses was a similar effort to construct the control of risks arising from production, in this case risks to the environment as well as health, as being achieved through production and management restructuring. Thus, the same transformative efforts and line of thinking needed to achieve greater efficiency and productivity were presented as yielding reductions in environmental damage. But, if environmental risk was being constructed in this way, what about farmer health and safety?
Financing Weather and Climate Risks in the United States
Published in Vyacheslav Lyubchich, Yulia R. Gel, K. Halimeda Kilbourne, Thomas J. Miller, Nathaniel K. Newlands, Adam B. Smith, Evaluating Climate Change Impacts, 2020
Roger S. Pulwarty, David R. Easterling, Jeffery Adkins, Adam B. Smith
Weather-related losses accounted for 88% of all property losses paid by insurers during this period. All other property losses, including those associated with earthquakes and terrorist events, accounted for much of the remainder. Weather-related damages are also responsible for many indirect and non-market impacts that are not entirely accounted for, if at all, in economic terms, such as environmental damage. Important segments of the US economy are particularly vulnerable to coastal hazards like hurricanes and rising sea levels.
Embedding planetary health concepts in a pre-medical physiology subject
Published in Medical Teacher, 2023
Christian Moro, Michelle McLean, Charlotte Phelps
Having made the conscious decision to not provide any introduction to planetary health in terms of why it was being included or a definition (to minimise any compounding factors), our research findings suggest that a relatively low-key intervention (in this case, the just-in-time snippets) can be integrated into an existing health sciences or health professions subject, with students engaging and some exploring facts further. Although 71% of respondents provided a definition of planetary health that would have allowed them to ‘pass’ (50%+) had this been an assessment item, and despite two Likert scale items suggesting that they generally felt confident to explain planetary health to someone and that they had learnt about planetary health, the missing element in their definition was the interrelationship between human health and the health of the planet. Their awareness was more focused on the anthropogenic environmental damage, which in itself is an important consideration. Thus, in the next iteration of this subject, a brief rationale will be presented in terms of the relevance of planetary health for health professions graduates. This may be either at the first session or a short 10-min video could be made available for students at the outset of the course.
Sustainable biobanks: a case study for a green global bioethics
Published in Global Bioethics, 2022
G. Samuel, F. Lucivero, A. M. Lucassen
Building on the work of scholars promoting an environmental turn in bioethics, and those who have called for a need to consider sustainability as a normative principle within the discipline, this paper brings attention to an area that has received less attention thus far – that is, the ethical issues related to the environmental sustainability of data and digital infrastructures in global health research systems that inform healthcare. Data and digital technologies coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often considered by policy makers and the industry sector as an ally in the fight against the environmental crisis and in the endeavour of sustainable development (Herweijer & Waughray, 2018; The Royal Society, 2020).3 Furthermore, the development and use of these technologies is quickly expanding due to their promises of saving human lives while reducing costs (Topol, 2012), as well as enabling access to health for populations living in remote areas with scarce health infrastructures (IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, 2017). However, these accounts tend to neglect that these technologies also have negative environmental impacts that need to be counteracted. These impacts are not particularly visible in the health sector, since the laudable aim of saving lives now (or widening access to save lives now) may eclipse the potential risks to future lives through environmental damage.
High surface area microporous activated carbon from Pisum sativum peels for hexavalent chromium removal from aquatic environment
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2022
Taher Sahlabji, Mohamed A. El-Nemr, Ahmed El Nemr, Safaa Ragab, Majed M. Alghamdi, Adel A. El-Zahhar, Abubakr M. Idris, Tarek O. Said
The prompt industrialization and urbanization of our cities have contributed to the release of large quantities of toxic heavy metals into the aquatic ecosystems (Anwar et al. 2010, AL-Othman et al. 2012). Due to their biotoxicity, biological concentration and non-biodegradable even at low levels, heavy metal pollution has become the most important environmental issues being researched and a center of researcher’s attraction. Although it has been studied for many years, effective treatment options of the aquatic ecosystems are still needed (El Nemr 2007, 2009, Acharya et al. 2009, Devi et al. 2010, Geçgel et al. 2013, Owalude and Tella 2016, Rai et al. 2016, Alemu et al. 2018, Tu et al. 2020). Lake of effective treatment is responsible for serious environmental damage and adverse effects on human health (Shakya and Agarwal 2018). Although some heavy metals are necessary in traces to maintain the metabolism of the body, above certain levels they are water soluble, persistence and cannot be degraded or readily detoxified biologically which adversely affects the health of plants and animals as well as humans (Abdelwahab et al. 2007, El-Sikaily et al. 2007, Anwar et al. 2010, AL-Othman et al. 2013, Geçgel et al. 2013, Labied et al. 2018). Chromium, lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, nickel and copper are high-frequency pollutants seen in aquatic ecosystems throughout the world (El Nemr et al. 2008).