Climate Change

The Healio Editors compiled a list of the most-read COPD news published in 2021.

Healio’s coverage during 2021 demonstrates the influence that climate change and pollution have on health and wellbeing.

Research to improve the lives of millions of patients with asthma continued in 2021. Here are our top 10 stories on these developments, helping people breathe easier.

The BMJ and Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare have jointly launched The Recovery, a new podcast highlighting initiatives that practitioners around the world are using to reduce medical excess.

The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Climate Committee published a children’s book focused on helping caregivers navigate children’s anxiety about the changing climate.

Trends associated with global warming have made ragweed pollen seasons worse in Ukraine, according to a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Forty-seven countries, including the United States, have committed to developing climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems. They announced their efforts during the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, also known as COP26.

Climate change can affect the frequency and severity of asthma and allergies, especially among vulnerable populations, according to an article published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Children with asthma living in Los Angeles did not demonstrate an increase in allergic sensitization to inhalant allergens from 1999 to 2014 despite the growing impact of climate change, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

Human influence has had an unequivocal impact on Earth’s climate, causing significant changes that threaten people’s security and physical and mental health, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.