air pollution exposure News
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COMEAP revises air quality and Asthma position
The Department of Health's Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution has issued a new paper on the links between air pollution and asthma. In the paper the Committee considers that for a small group of people who suffer from asthma and live near busy roads, exposure to traffic generated air pollutants, largely from trucks, may have played a small part in causing their disease. This ...
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EPA, University of Michigan to research health effects of roadway pollution on children
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $1.4 million joint study with the University of Michigan on the health effects of air pollution on children living near the nation’s heavily traveled thoroughfares. The study is funded through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results program. “The knowledge gained from this study will arm local governments with the best available science when ...
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Hidden health costs of transportation policy
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is holding a briefing to examine health impacts and costs associated with transportation in the United States. The briefing will address how federal policies regarding transportation infrastructure, in addition to policies concerning vehicles and fuels, can play an important role in improving public health and reducing health care costs. ...
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Hidden health costs of transportation policy: saving lives and dollars
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing to examine health impacts and costs associated with transportation in the United States. The briefing will address how federal policies regarding transportation infrastructure, in addition to policies concerning vehicles and fuels, can play an important role in improving public health and reducing health care costs. ...
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EPA Releases New PSA for American Heart Month
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) to educate the public and healthcare providers about the risks of air pollution to the heart. "Over more than four decades of EPA history, we've made tremendous progress cleaning up the air we breathe by using science to understand the harmful effects of air pollution," said EPA Administrator ...
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National COPD Awareness Month Discussed in New Online Video
Today the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. Their newest production discusses National COPD Awareness Month, which takes place during the month of November. “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a serious lung disease that impacts millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions worldwide, making it hard to ...
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Circassia Announces Duaklir US Launch at American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019
Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc (“Circassia” or “the Company”; LSE: CIR), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on respiratory disease, today announces the US launch of Duaklir® for the maintenance treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019, which is currently ongoing in New ...
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Mold Exposure to Infants Triggers Asthma Attacks
This month, U.S. News & World Report published a story from HealthDay News about exposure to household mold and infants’ asthma. The article discusses a new study that analyzed seven years worth of data covering 176 children. The Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution Study found that exposure to mold in the home during a child’s infancy greatly increased the risk of ...
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National COPD Awareness Month and Identifying Airborne Exposure Risks in Puerto Rico
November is recognized as National COPD Awareness Month. The NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute states that it is a distinct time for the COPD community to come together with one voice to focus on increasing awareness of the disease. Across the nation, organizations are conducting outreach and holding events to bring greater visibility to COPD and to encourage people to ...
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Green spaces linked to improved cognitive development in schoolchildren
Exposure of primary schoolchildren to outdoor green spaces is linked to an improvement in their cognitive development, finds a new study, which is the first of its kind. The association may be partly explained by reductions in traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) near green areas. Approximately half of the global population live in cities, and it is projected that by 2030, three of every five ...
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Air pollution from road traffic can raise blood pressure
High blood pressure is linked to long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution, new research suggests. After accounting for lifestyle factors, socioeconomic status and pre-existing health conditions, the researchers found that a rise in traffic emissions of nitrogen dioxide corresponded to a rise in blood pressure of exposed individuals. Long-term exposure to air pollution has previously ...
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Asthma Awareness Month and the Importance of Addressing Known Triggers and Airborne Irritants in the Workplace
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that between 100 and 150 million people across the globe have asthma and that deaths due to it now total over 180,000 each year. In the United States, the American Lung Association states that approximately 25 million people suffer from the disease. Globally, the rate of those with the condition has been on the increase and figures from the WHO indicate ...
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Wood stove intervention can reduce childhood pneumonia
Cooking stoves with chimneys can lower exposure to indoor wood smoke and reduce the rate of severe pneumonia by 30 percent in children less than 18 months of age, according to a new air pollution study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study in the Nov. 10 issue of The Lancet showed that rates of severe ...
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Europe’s environment now healthier – but new risks emerging
Europeans live longer and healthier lives than in the past, partly due to successful environmental policies that have reduced the exposure to harmful environmental contaminants in air, water and food, according to a new report. However, these contaminants are still a problem, and several new health risks are emerging, for example, from new chemicals, new products and changing lifestyle patterns. ...
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EPA Releases New Report on Children`s Health and the Environment in America
EPA today released “America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition,” a comprehensive compilation of information from a variety of sources on children’s health and the environment. The report shows trends for contaminants in air, water, food, and soil that may affect children; concentrations of contaminants in the bodies of children and women of child-bearing age; ...
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Fourteen days of poor air quality caused 4 000 extra healthcare visits in UK
Real time monitoring of public health during two periods of high air pollution in the UK showed that there were an estimated 3 500 extra healthcare visits for acute respiratory symptoms and approximately 500 for severe asthma during these spells in 2014. The results of this research are presented in a new study which demonstrates the value of such ‘syndromic surveillance’ systems for ...
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World Asthma Day: NIH research advances help people with asthma
Statement of Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program; Susan B. Shurin, M.D., acting director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Today, the National Institutes of Health joins with public health officials, health ...
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World Asthma Day: NIH research advances help people with asthma
Today, the National Institutes of Health joins with public health officials, health organizations, and patient groups around the world to recognize World Asthma Day. As NIH's leading supporters of asthma research, we at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
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Traffic pollution associated with risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Long-term exposure to traffic-related air particle pollution is linked with type 2 diabetes, a new study in Germany has found. Furthermore, the study found that people living close to busy roads were at greater risk of developing the disease than those living further away. Air pollution has been linked to a number of health problems, including heart, circulatory and lung diseases. It has also ...
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EU allergy and asthma network marks its achievements
The Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN)1, established in 2005 to facilitate excellence in allergy research across clinical and research institutions in Europe, has recently published a report on its major achievements. Funded by the EU, GA2LEN is composed of a multidisciplinary research network centred on scientific projects in allergy and asthma. It integrates research on ...
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