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12 Dec
Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Dangerous Blood Clots
An analysis of 17 years of data from 6 major U.S. cities finds residents exposed to higher levels of air pollution are more likely to develop blood clots.
26 Sep
Pollution from Wildfire Smoke May Be Impacting Kids’ Mental Health
Children exposed to unsafe levels of fine particulate matter through wildfires and other extreme forms of air pollution face an increased risk of depression, anxiety and other internalizing symptoms, a new study finds.
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Microscopic plastic particles in the air could be contributing to a wide variety of health problems, including lung and colon cancers.
Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic which become airborne, creating a form of air pollution that’s not very well understood, a new review say...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 18, 2024
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Air pollution could be harming the brain development of children before they are even born, a new study warns.
A 10 parts-per-billion increase in ozone exposure during the second trimester of pregnancy was associated with a 55% increased risk of intellectual disability among chi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 16, 2024
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Breathing in smoggy air over time can significantly raise a person's chances for dangerous blood clots, new research shows.
“What’s striking from our study is the increase in serious blood clotting disease with exposure to some of the most common types of pollutants in the air we breathe,” said study lead author
Decades of lead exposure from car exhaust altered the mental health of millions of Americans, making them more prone to depression, anxiety and ADHD, a new study claims.
Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923 to help keep car engines healthy, researchers said.
But lead is toxic to brain cells, and there’s no safe level of exposure at any point in life. Children are especiall...
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- December 4, 2024
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People in Southern California with relatively high exposures to wildfire smoke over a decade also had significantly higher risks for dementia, a new study warns.
In fact, the fine-particle pollution created by these fires seems more closely tied to brain trouble than similar pollutants from factories and car exhaust, the researchers noted.
Over the long-term, every one-microgram-pe...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 25, 2024
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Cases of the autoimmune skin condition eczema appear to rise in areas most plagued by air pollution, new research shows.
Since data has long shown that rates of eczema -- clinically known as atopic dermatitis -- increase along with industrialization, dirty air mig...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 15, 2024
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Babies who breathe in polluted air tend to have higher rates of peanut allergy as they grow up, but the same wasn't true for immune-based conditions like egg allergy or eczema, Australian researchers report.
Why the connection to peanut allergy in particular?
That's not yet clear, said study lead author
Accident victims tend to flood emergency rooms on days with heavy air pollution, a new study shows.
The number of patients treated at ERs increase by 10% to 15% on days with increased particle pollution in the air, researchers found.
That increase is driven by cases of trauma, along with more people suffering
Even air pollution levels considered safe by U.S. standards appear to cause differences in the brains of growing children, a new review suggests.
"We're seeing differences in brain outcomes between children with higher levels of pollution exposure versus lower levels of pollution exposure," said corresponding author Camelia ...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- October 3, 2024
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Climate change and worsening diets are sending global rates of stroke and stroke deaths skyward, a new study warns.
Almost 12 million people worldwide had a stroke in 2021, up 70% since 1990, according to a team led by Valery Feigin, of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.
It's now the third leading cause of d...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 19, 2024
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Cadmium, uranium, cobalt: These and other metals found in the environment can collect in the body and exacerbate heart disease, new research suggests.
"Our findings highlight the importance of considering metal exposure as a significant risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardi...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 18, 2024
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Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be causing big climate problems for Mother Earth, a new study warns.
Each inhaler dose contains some of the most potent greenhouse gases known, and they are adding up, researchers reported recently in the
City living may be tough on couples wanting to conceive: New data shows that air pollution appears to be linked to lower fertility in men, while noisy traffic could harm the fertility of women.
“If our results are confirmed in future studies, it suggests that political implementation of air pollution and noise mitigations may be important tools for improving birth rates in the weste...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 5, 2024
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Americans of means are fleeing heavily polluted places in the United States for cleaner locales, a new study has found.
Pollution levels are a factor in families’ decision to move within the United States, but only richer households can afford to move to areas with better air qualit...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 26, 2024
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Fireworks displays can cause worse air quality than wildfire smoke, a new study reveals.
About 60,000 firework shells exploded over Manhattan’s East River as part of Macy’s Fourth of July show in 2023, researchers said.
The colorful bursts caused air pollution in New York City to spike dramatically, with levels many times higher in the hours after the display than was ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 6, 2024
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Wildfire smoke could interfere with the safety of surgeries, a new study warns.
Inhaling the smoke could complicate the effects of anesthesia on surgical patients, and it also might hamper their recovery, researchers reported Aug. 6 in the journal Anesthesiology.
“Wildfire smoke poses significant health risks, particularly in people with preexisting heart and lung dis...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 6, 2024
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New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.
The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.
In a study published Wednesday in
The wildfires thats are increasing with climate change could harm the future brain health of humanity, a new study suggests.
Wildfire smoke appears to increase people’s risk of a dementia diagnosis even more than other types of air pollution, researchers
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 1, 2024
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Bad news for Olympians headed to Paris -- high levels of ozone pollution and grass pollen are likely during the upcoming games if hot, sunny weather prevails, researchers said.
Ozone levels in Paris and its environs tend to exceed World Health Organization (WHO) recommended thresholds about 20 days per month between July and September, according to an analysis of air quality monitoring da...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 26, 2024
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Wildfires raging in several states and Canada are triggering air quality alerts and evacuation orders across the western parts of the United States.
Smoke and haze have filled the skies in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and several other western states: As of Wednesday, there were 79 large, active wildfires that have burned over 1.4 million acres across the country, accordin...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- July 25, 2024
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Online retail giants like Amazon have made it easier for people to buy what they want when they want it, but that convenience comes at a cost to people’s health, a new study says.
Huge warehouses that support online shopping increase air pollution in the neighborhoods where they’re located, increasing residents’ risk of
Exposure to air pollution can significantly reduce the odds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) leading to a live birth, a new study says.
The odds of a live birth are nearly 40% lower in women heavily exposed to particle pollution in the two weeks before her eggs were collected for IVF, com...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 8, 2024
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Exposure to air pollution as a child increases an adult's risk of bronchitis, a new study warns.
Young adults with bronchitis symptoms tended to have been exposed during childhood to two types of air pollutants, researchers found:
Particle pollution from dust, pollen, wi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 28, 2024
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After helping America through one of its worst tragedies, some responders to the events of 9/11 may now face another foe: Heightened risks for dementia.
A new study looks at the health of thousands of firemen, construction workers and others who worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) si...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- June 12, 2024
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Many Louisiana residents are being exposed to a cancer-causing toxic gas that's used in industrial settings, researchers report.
A cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab found dangerous levels of ethylene oxide along large stretches of Louisiana, sometimes at levels a thou...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 11, 2024
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It might be hoped that replacing a diesel school bus with a clean electric model would pay off for health and the environment.
New research suggests that it does -- and gives a dollar figure for that payoff.
Replacing a diesel bus with a clean electric model yields up to $247,600 in climate and health benefits per bus, according to research from Harvard University's T.H. Chan Schoo...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- May 22, 2024
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People in homes with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide, a new study says.
Typical use of these stoves increases exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by an estimated 4 parts per billion, averaged over a year, researchers report.
That's three-quarters of the way to the NO2 exposure level deemed unsafe in outdoor air by the World Health ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 3, 2024
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Nearly 40% of Americans live where the air is polluted enough to harm them, a new report warns.
In the American Lung Association's "State of the Air"report, released Wednesday, the number of people living with levels of air pollution that could jeopardize their health climbed from about 119 million in 2023 to 131 million now.
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- April 24, 2024
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Two common PFAS "forever chemicals" have been deemed hazardous substances by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The new designation, enacted under the country's
Planting trees and bushes near busy highways helps clear the air of harmful air pollutants from motor vehicles, new research affirms.
"They provide benefits that go beyond aesthetics," Roby Greenwald, an associate professor of public health at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said in a university news release.
"B...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 20, 2024
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There's a toxic stew of chemicals in polluted air that can all trigger asthma attacks in kids, new research shows.
Also, where a child lives -- for example, near factories or highways -- greatly influences how much they're exposed to these toxins, reports a team from Washington State University in Spokane.
"It's not just one pollutant that can be linked to
Living close to trees and other greenery could be keeping your bones strong, a new 12-year study suggests.
Folks whose residences were near spots deemed "green" by satellite imagery tended to have better bone density than those who lived elsewhere, Chinese researchers found.
Reductions in air pollution seemed key to greenery's benefit for bones, according to a team led by
Air pollution harms the health of everyone exposed to it, but a new study says communities of color are disproportionately harmed by dirty air.
Smog causes nearly 8 times higher childhood asthma rates and 1.3 times higher risk of premature death among minority communities compared to white communities, researchers found.
These elevated risks are a matter of geography, said study co-...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 6, 2024
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People exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution are more likely to have more amyloid plaques in their brain, a condition associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.
Seniors were nearly twice as likely to have more amyloid plaques if, in the year before their death, they lived in places with high concentrations of particle pollution caused by traffic, results sho...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 22, 2024
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If all cars and trucks sold in America were "zero emission" by 2040 and the country's electric grid was also powered by clean energy, nearly 2.8 million child asthma attacks would be prevented annually, a new report finds.
The American Lung Association (ALA) report also estimates that with cleaner air, 508 infant lives ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 21, 2024
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Nearly 15% of Americans still deny that climate change is real, according to a new national assessment from the University of Michigan.
Evidence of climate change has been mounting, including science which has shown that climate-related natural disasters are growing in frequency and intensity sooner than originally predicted, researchers said.
Nevertheless, climate change is still n...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 16, 2024
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Few can forget the haunting images of New York City bathed in a thick orange smog after smoke from Canadian wildfires swept southward last summer.
Now, a new report from the First Street Foundation suggests these alarming effects of climate change are becoming far more common, wit...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 13, 2024
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is cracking down on air pollution.
Specifically, the agency introduced a tougher air quality standard that takes aim at fine particulate matter -- the tiny bits of pollution that can penetrate the lungs -- by lowering the allowable annual concentration of the deadly pollutant that each state can have.
"This final air qua...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 9, 2024
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Deaths related to ozone air pollution will rise significantly around the world during the next two decades due to climate change, a new study warns.
Cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa can expect to see ozone-related deaths increase by as many as 6,200 fatalities a year by 2054 unless humans rein in global warming, researchers project.
"This paper is further ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 30, 2024
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An American's income and ethnicity could play a role in how clean the air is that they breathe, a new study finds.
Air pollution emissions have fallen more in wealthier areas, and less in areas with larger Hispanic or American Indian populations.
Overall, U.S. air pollution emissions have decreased substantially, but the magnitude of the change varies based on demographics, the rese...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 17, 2024
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Unhealthy air from wildfires is causing hundreds of additional deaths in the western United States every year, a new study claims.
Wildfires have undercut progress made in cleaning America's air, and between 2000 and 2020 caused an increase of 670 premature deaths each year in the West, researchers report Dec. 4 in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.
"Our air is supposed t...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 5, 2023
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It's not just bumper-to-bumper highway traffic that's causing your blood pressure to spike during your daily commute.
New research shows that the exhaust fumes spewing from all those vehicles triggers a significant increase in car passengers' blood pressure.
The observed increase is comparable to the effect of a high-salt diet, researchers found, and the effect can last up to 24 hou...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 29, 2023
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When it comes to the ultra-fine particles you may breathe in from polluted air, all is not created equal as it affects your health.
Fine particle pollutants known PM2.5 -- particles that are 2.5 microns or less in diameter -- appear to double the risk for premature death over time if they originate from coal-fired power plants versus other sources, a
Nearly half of Americans have never heard of health-threatening PFAS "forever chemicals,"a new survey has found.
PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a category of thousands of manufactured chemicals that have become an emerging concern to environmental and human health, researchers from Texas A&M University said.
Nonetheless, 45% of survey participants had n...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 21, 2023
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Air pollution could be harming the development of children, reaching into the womb to alter their healthy growth, a new study reports.
Researchers say certain air pollutants appear to negatively alter a specific measure of prenatal exposure to hormones.
"These findings suggest air pollution may interfere with normal hormone activity during critical periods of prenatal and early infa...
- Dennis Thompson and Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporters
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- November 15, 2023
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Exposure to wildfire-related air pollution in western states has taken its toll on U.S. patients who are on dialysis.
New research linked it to elevated risks of hospitalization and death in patients who were receiving in-center hemodialysis treatment in Washington, Oregon and Califo...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- November 7, 2023
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Air pollution from heavy traffic may be driving pregnancy complications and health concerns for infants.
Researchers who matched more than 60,000 birth records with air-monitoring data found that pregnant patients living in an urban area with elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide had higher rates of preterm birth.
This included delivery before 28 weeks, according to
Exposure to air pollution, even for just a short time, drives up your risk of having a stroke over the next few days, new research warns.
That conclusion stems from a review of 110 studies conducted across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Depending on the specific nature of the pollutant in question, stroke risk rose anywhere from 5% to 28% within less than a week after first being e...
- Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter
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- September 28, 2023
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More people around the world are exposed to wildfire smoke that has the potential to harm human health, and their numbers are growing, new research finds.
More than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting wildfire smoke each year, a figure that has grown by almost 7% in the past decade, according to a study led by Australian scientists.
Mor...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- September 21, 2023
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When Canadian wildfire smoke shrouded the New York City skyline and spread to parts of New England this summer, millions of East Coast residents saw firsthand just how pervasive it can be.
Now, a new study quantifies exactly what wildfire smoke is doing to hard-fought gains in cleaning up the air, even in Eastern states not typically affected by wildfires.
"Since 2000, there's been ...
- Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
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- September 20, 2023
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