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May 13, 2024
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Coal train pollution linked to more deaths, hospitalizations, asthma

Coal train pollution linked to more deaths, hospitalizations, asthma

Exposure to pollution from passing coal trains led to an increase in the estimated number of deaths, hospitalizations and asthma cases in a San Francisco Bay Area region, according to results published in Environmental Research.

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May 09, 2024
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Like ‘smoking a cigarette’: Endoscopists exposed to harmful pollutants during procedures

Like ‘smoking a cigarette’: Endoscopists exposed to harmful pollutants during procedures

Endoscopists are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollutants when performing smoke-producing gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures — “comparable to smoking a cigarette” during a single procedure, according to researchers.

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May 02, 2024
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Top news of April: Nasal spray for OSA, lawsuit filed against FDA

Top news of April: Nasal spray for OSA, lawsuit filed against FDA

Healio has compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in April.

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April 29, 2024
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EPA finalizes emission limits for power plants

EPA finalizes emission limits for power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized standards lowering mercury and toxic metal emissions, as well as carbon pollution from power plants, according to a press release from the agency.

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April 29, 2024
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Asthma risks on the rise due to climate change

Asthma risks on the rise due to climate change

Climate change has resulted in higher pollution levels, more wildfires and warmer temperatures, all of which come together and increase the risk for asthma, according to a paper published in Frontiers in Science.

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April 26, 2024
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Air pollution amplifies relationship between poor mental health, poor heart health

Air pollution amplifies relationship between poor mental health, poor heart health

Air pollution accentuates the relationship between poor mental health and premature mortality from heart disease in the United States, researchers reported at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024.

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April 24, 2024
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2024 State of the Air report: 39% of Americans breathe polluted, unhealthy air daily

2024 State of the Air report: 39% of Americans breathe polluted, unhealthy air daily

Implementing the recent stronger standard for fine particulate pollution revealed that 131 million Americans breathe unhealthy, polluted air where they live, according to a press release from the American Lung Association.

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April 22, 2024
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Odds for COVID-19 increase with long-term air pollution exposure

Odds for COVID-19 increase with long-term air pollution exposure

Elevated exposure levels to nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter over 5 years raised the odds for COVID-19, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

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April 18, 2024
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Exposure to air pollution not associated with allergic disease in early childhood

Exposure to air pollution not associated with allergic disease in early childhood

WASHINGTON — There were no significant associations between prenatal exposure to ambient particulate matter and atopic disease, according to a study presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

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April 04, 2024
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Local air pollutants raise asthma-related ED visit rate, may contribute to disparities

Local air pollutants raise asthma-related ED visit rate, may contribute to disparities

Asthma-related ED visit rates rose with exposure to local fine particulate matter, coarse particulate matter and sulfur dioxide, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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