Climate Change

Year after year, Healio and Healio LIVE teams have garnered increasing numbers of APEX awards for publication excellence, this year bringing in 10 total, including three grand awards.

In April, the American Society of Nephrology released a statement calling on kidney health professionals to take action against climate change.

Patients on dialysis are at a significantly heightened risk of death for 30 days after being exposed to a hurricane, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Climate change is having a substantial negative impact on allergies, asthma and other respiratory disorders, according to a presentation given during the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress.

During 2020, emissions from a single hemodialysis treatment were 58.9 kg carbon dioxide equivalents, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to set federal air pollution standards for power plants under the Clean Air Act.

In the United States, Indigenous people have the highest risks from natural hazards, according to this year’s Healthiest Communities Rankings report.

Climate change is a public health crisis threatening the well-being of all people, the AMA declared via a policy it adopted during the annual meeting of its House of Delegates.

Extreme heat was associated with higher all-cause mortality among adults in the contiguous United States from 2008 to 2017, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity has launched Climate and Health Outlook, a new climate-related public health information series, according to a press release.