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Close to Home   -  ITV  -  October 1, 1989  -  November 18, 1990

Sitcom (19 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Paul Nicholas as James Shepherd

Angharad Rees as Helen DeAngelo

Jane Briers as Rose

Lucy Benjamin as Kate Shepherd

Andrew Read as Robbie Shepherd

Stephen Frost as Frank DeAngelo (series 1)

Pippa Guard as Vicky (series 2)

John Arthur  as Tom (series 2)

New research demonstrates that manipulating competition among pathogens can lead to successful treatment with traditional drugs, even where resistance to that drug is already present. (Click here for high resolution version.) Image: Penn State

Limiting a much-needed resource could pit pathogens against one another and prevent the emergence of drug resistance. New research demonstrates that…

Speeding Up Coal Phase-out Will Save Albertan Lives

The ECOreport reposts an Op-Ed, Speeding up coal phase-out will save Albertan lives 

Press Release from the Pembina Institute

Speeding the rate of the coal phase-out would benefit Albertans’ health and would even save lives, according to a joint reportfrom the Pembina Institute, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, the Lung Association of Alberta and NWT, and the Asthma…

Health Canada Finds Alberta’s SO2 Emissions Troubling

The ECOreporet reposts a report that Health Canada Finds Alberta’s SO2 Emissions Troubling

Originally Published on the Pembina Institute

By Andrew Read

Albertans pay a high price in terms of air quality and health complications due to the burning of coal to produce electricity, a recently released Health Canada study has found. The seemingly regular release of new data confirming the health risks…