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EPA Honors Maine, Michigan Programs for Serving as National Models for Cutting-Edge Asthma Care
(Washington, D.C.) Commemorating World Asthma Day -- May 1 -- and kicking off Asthma Awareness Month, EPA is recognizing two leading asthma management programs that serve as national models for effective asthma care. One health plan – Priority Health of Grand Rapids, Mich. – and one health care provider – MaineHealth of Portland, Maine – have earned EPA's 2007 National Environmental Leadership ...
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Study links California hospitalizations to hotter weather
Rising temperatures have already impacted the health of thousands of Californians, according to a paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), written by scientists at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “The 2006 California Heat Wave: Impacts on Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits,” describes the enormous health impacts of California’s severe heat wave in ...
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EPA grant to University of Chicago for research on food allergy triggers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $433,100 grant to the University of Chicago to investigate how allergic reactions to food are initiated. The research is expected to lead to improved methods to assess whether pesticides produced in genetically engineered plants can trigger food allergies, which impact more than 11 million Americans each year. The study is funded through ...
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EPA recognizes five organizations for outstanding leadership in asthma care (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is honoring five organizations with the agency’s 2010 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. The recipients have demonstrated outstanding leadership in improving the health of people living with asthma. Twenty-three million people in the United States, including 7 million children, suffer from asthma, which is one of the ...
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Mega rail project would threaten years of green growth at port of Los Angeles
The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Harbor residents living within the shadow of the largest development on Port of Los Angeles property in more than a decade. The Plaintiffs contend the proposed Southern California International Gateway rail yard project violates the California Environmental Quality Act and the state and federal ...
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In a Single Real-World Deployment of over 1,300 Patients, Spire Health’s RPM Service Escalated Patients experiencing Respiratory Exacerbation with 68% Accuracy
Spire Health, the leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) for chronic respiratory disease patients, today announced the results of a real-world study of 1,366 patients at a Virginia-based, multi-provider pulmonary clinic. Among the 188 escalations using Spire’s AI-based system, 68% were pharmacologically treated for acute exacerbation by their pulmonologist. The primary ...
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BrainScope Advances its Commercial Adoption and Appoints Industry Veteran Susan Hertzberg as CEO
BrainScope announced today the appointment of Susan Hertzberg as Chief Executive Officer. This is the 4th equity-backed venture that Hertzberg will helm. She is a proven commercial stage leader with an impressive track record of bringing innovative products and services to market and profitably scaling and delivering exceptional market growth. In her new role, Hertzberg will drive the global ...
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EPA Strengthens Ozone Standards to Protect Public Health/Science-based standards to reduce sick days, asthma attacks, emergency room visits, greatly outweigh costs
Based on extensive scientific evidence on effects that ground-level ozone pollution, or smog, has on public health and welfare, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has strengthened the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone to 70 parts per billion (ppb) from 75 ppb to protect public health. The updated standards will reduce Americans’ exposure to ...
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IBM helps cities take the guesswork out of city services
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today inaugurated a free website called City Forward (http://www.cityforward.org). It's designed to improve the quality of life in cities of all sizes around the world by helping officials make sounder and more scientific decisions on city services. The site gives policy makers, citizen-advocates and the public a new perspective on how their respective cities are performing ...
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EPA helps people take control of their asthma
Local air quality affects how you live and breathe. Like the weather, it can change from day to day or even hour to hour. Add pollutants in the indoor air of people’s homes and workplaces, and you have conditions that can be extremely serious for people with respiratory diseases such as asthma. Asthma is a serious, sometimes life-threatening respiratory disease that affects the health of ...
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Dicerna Presents PHYOX™2 and Primary Hyperoxaluria Healthcare Utilization Data at American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2021
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRNA), a leading developer of investigational ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced results of the PHYOX™2 pivotal clinical trial of nedosiran, an investigational GalXC™ RNAi candidate for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria (PH), in a late-breaker poster presentation at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) ...
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EPA strengthens smog standard
The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog. Smog, also known as ground-level ozone, is linked to a number of serious health problems, ranging from aggravation of asthma to increased risk of premature death in people with heart or lung disease. Ozone can even harm healthy people who work and play outdoors. The agency is ...
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Take actions this summer to reduce exposures to asthma triggers (PA)
Now that the summer heat is here it’s a good time to pay attention to your local air quality. Like the weather, air quality can change from day to day or even hour to hour and it can affect how you live and breathe. When the summer heat builds, ground-level ozone levels increase - - and ground-level ozone, often called smog, is a contributor to the onset or the exacerbation of an asthma ...
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Home Test Kit Helps Identify Asthma Triggers
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors. For those suffering from asthma this makes it all the more important that the air they breathe in their homes, offices and schools is free of elevated levels of known asthma triggers. One common asthma trigger that has been recognized for years is mold. The EPA has even developed a ...
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TecTraum Announces Completion of Multisite Clinical Trial Using pro2cool Device for the Treatment of Concussions
TecTraum Inc., dedicated to providing the world’s first point-of-care treatment for concussions, announced complete enrollment status for a clinical trial that began in fall of 2019 using its flagship technology, pro2cool. The pro2cool system is a novel, noninvasive hypothermic therapy device designed to reduce the severity of concussion symptoms and allow patients to return to their ...
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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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Million dollar EPA grant powers green locomotive in upstate New York
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled upstate New York’s first ultra-low emission locomotive at a railroad yard in Selkirk, N.Y. The cleaner energy locomotive was made possible by an EPA award of more than $1 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the New York State Department of Transportation. New York State DOT and the CSX Transportation used the ...
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Two Boston health organizations recognized by EPA for leadership in Asthma Care (MA)
Two Boston health care organizations have been recognized by EPA for outstanding leadership in improving the health of people living with asthma. The groups are Children’s Hospital Boston and Neighborhood Health Plan. They were among only five groups nationwide given this recognition by EPA. The groups were presented the agency’s 2010 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma ...
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California fire prompts unhealthy air warnings in Nevada
The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada. The plume from the Rim Fire in California triggered emergency warnings in the Reno and Carson City area. Schoolchildren were kept inside for ...
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154 died of heat stroke in New York City from 2000-11: said CDC
Heat waves are the deadliest of extreme weather events, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week. A case study published in the August 9 edition of the agency’s journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, looked at heat illness in New York City from 2000 to 2011. The results revealed that there were more than 150 deaths, about 1,600 hospitalizations and around ...
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