New doubt on lung cancer treatment effectiveness

February 14th, 2012 | Posted by iip in Earth - (Comments Off)

The treatment of lung cancer might be higher than its expected.  The health industry should aware and recalculate the lung cancer treatment cost  as the recent findings of research on lung cancer treatment.

The best ideas are reducing the cost of treatment, and improving the access for poor people who experiencing the lung cancer or other lung related disease.

Reuter reported , the new study from the journal Cancer, analyzed data on more than 1,300 Medicare patients who’d had surgery for early-stage lung cancer. The study found that such patients usually don’t get radiation therapy, but in this group the cancer had spread to lymph nodes in the chest. There is no agreement on what to do in that case, and earlier studies have come to mixed conclusions.

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Australia Biodiversity Fund, $946m investment for new carbon stores

December 15th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (Comments Off)

The government of Australia seems very serious with the climate change issue. It recent policy provide incentive for farmers and land manager for activities which restore, manager and better protect biodiversity on public and private land.

The government allocate around $946m over the next six years for this green investment. That’s not small funds.

It’s call Biodiversity Fund. The fund will provide support to establishing new carbon stores or better managing carbon stores of existing native habitat. Here some sample project supported by The Biodiversity Fund as cited from Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities:

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Global warming issues and agroforestry adoption

October 22nd, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (Comments Off)

Promoting agroforestry could be better option for rural poor in combating global warming issues. Agroforestry have been practiced for ages but less recognized by many governments. In agroforestry practice, farmers are benefits farm yield as well as from trees planted. They manage such tree based farm system to meets their needs of food and energy.

Agroforestry innovations have been introduced as an effort of development on market based agricultural commodities. It changes technological factors in production process to increase their productivity and enhance quality of agricultural commodities. Questioning how the impact of such innovations will lead to the process of new technological factors adopted by farmers. (more…)

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