... from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in the September issue of ...
... observational study to compare mortality, morbidity and services used for one year before and after Hurricane Katrina. The researchers found that emergency department visits increased 100 percent in ...
A new study has found that 67% of the fatalities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 resulted from direct impacts of the flooding that occurred when the levees collapsed.
Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. Now researchers from Tel Aviv ...
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said complaints of respiratory illness among Gulf Coast children increased after Hurricane Katrina.
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. (AP) -- The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored ...
... 2008 with 5,055 adults in high hurricane risk counties in eight states. Twelve ... percent of the survey's respondents said they were threatened or hit by Hurricane Katrina while 46% were threatened or hit ...
A new survey finds the top worries of respondents threatened or hit by Hurricane Katrina are that they would not have enough fresh water to drink (42 percent very worried) and that they would not be ...
... 's work, since congestion on evacuation routes has been a significant problem in some cases, such as hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Metzger suggests that, for example, the elderly might be evacuated ...
Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the U.S., Rice University civil and mechanical engineering ... Americans could be paying in higher gasoline prices.
Katrina and Rita (both Category 5 storms ...
Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the US, engineers studied damage done to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. If tropical storm Gustav strengthens ...
... shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: ...
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, people still speculate over causes of ... in August, 2000 – five years before Katrina struck – and noticed that the seams were made of waste ...
In 2006, Al Gore alleged that Hurricane Katrina had been caused, or at least made worse, by global warming. Bill Gray, one of the foremost hurricane experts in the world, disagreed. Who was ...
... -- Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana's biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national ...
