Environmental/Occupational News

Between 2017 and 2023, more than 1,000 cases of progressive massive fibrosis emerged in coal miners, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

Individuals faced a high risk for respiratory mortality 5 to 7 days after being exposed to ultrafine particle pollution, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among adolescents, increases in average rain or snowfall over a week resulted in heightened fractional exhaled nitric oxide, signaling airway inflammation, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Between 1990 and 2019, global age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of mesothelioma went down, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

ANAHEIM, Calif. —Patients with asthma used reliever inhalers more on days with unhealthy air quality during the Canadian wildfires, according to a poster at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Compared with army and air force veterans in the U.K. and Australia, naval veterans more frequently had lung cancers linked to asbestos exposure, according to results published in Scientific Reports.

The historical climate events of the past summer may have been eye-opening for all, but the health of patients with respiratory diseases and conditions has been particularly threatened due to these exposures.

Compared with fine particulate matter from any source, pollution from coal electricity-generating units heightened the risk for death by twofold among Medicare users, according to results published in Science.

Individuals aged 15 to 50 years faced heightened odds for COPD if they had been exposed to household air pollution and elevated ambient ozone levels, according to results published in Thorax.

Older Indigenous coal miners faced a higher likelihood for black lung disease and respiratory impairment than non-Indigenous miners, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.