Air Quality

With the known negative impacts of air pollution on health, especially in patients with respiratory diseases/conditions, lacking local air quality and pollution data can be detrimental to an individual’s well-being.

Students and faculty from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, worked together in an innovative pilot course that led them to document a CSX coal terminal’s impact on air pollution on the Curtis Bay neighborhood.

BOSTON — Work from four of the six winners of a grant from the Allergists’ Foundation as part of the Community Grant Program focus on asthma, according to an American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology press release.

DENVER — Poor air quality during the Canadian wildfires in 2023 did not affect embryology outcomes for patients at a fertility clinic in New Jersey who underwent oocyte retrieval or frozen embryo transfer, researchers reported.

The Healio community recognized 50 health care professionals across 23 specialties as the 2024 honorees of its peer-to-peer recognition program, Healio Honors. These honorees are recognized for embodying Healio’s mission to care.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the New York State Department of Health $5 million to address indoor air quality issues and greenhouse gas reduction in schools.

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.

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.

On Aug. 21, the EPA publicized that it will be conducting a new review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone, meaning the current outdated national limit on this pollution may be in place until as late as December 2025.

An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study showed that despite decreasing rates of CV death attributable to air pollution, the number of years living with disability increased from 1990 to 2019, especially among men.