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18 Apr
Two Environmental Pollutants Linked to Thyroid Cancer in Children and Young Adults
A new study suggests early-life exposure to fine particulate air pollution and outdoor artificial light at night increases the risk of papillary thyroid cancer in children and young adults.
12 Dec
Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Dangerous Blood Clots
An analysis of 17 years of data from 6 major U.S. cities finds residents exposed to higher levels of air pollution are more likely to develop blood clots.
26 Sep
Pollution from Wildfire Smoke May Be Impacting Kids’ Mental Health
Children exposed to unsafe levels of fine particulate matter through wildfires and other extreme forms of air pollution face an increased risk of depression, anxiety and other internalizing symptoms, a new study finds.
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Telemedicine isn’t only more convenient for patients, but could be helping save the planet, a new study says.
Telemedicine use in 2023 reduced monthly carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of more than 130,000 exhaust-spewing gas-powered vehicles, researchers reported recently in the
FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) —Breathing the air in nearly half of the United States could be putting your health at risk.
A new American Lung Association report shows that 156 million people live in areas with unhealthy air.
The group’s annual "State of the Air" report found that smog and soot pollution are get...
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- April 25, 2025
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Babies exposed to air and light pollution have a higher risk of developing childhood thyroid cancer, a new study says.
Airborne particle pollution and outdoor artificial light both increased babies’ risk of developing thyroid cancer before they turned 20, researchers recently reported in the journal Environmental Health Pe...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 18, 2025
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Air pollution might be harming the brains of seniors, increasing their risk of dementia and cognitive decline, a new study says.
Exposure to nitrogen dioxide and fine particle pollution is linked to lower scores in key thinking and memory skills, particularly language abili...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 10, 2025
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Smoke from wildfires driving you mad?
You’re not alone, a new study says.
Short-term exposure to air choked with wildfire smoke increases people’s risk of mental health problems, according to findings published April 4 in
Ozone air pollution increases the risk of asthma among preschoolers and kindergarteners, a new study says.
Relatively small increases in ozone smog in a child’s first two years of life is associated with an increased risk of asthma and wheeze at 4 to 6 years of age, researchers reported April 2 in ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 7, 2025
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The Los Angeles wildfires spewed toxic lead into the southern California atmosphere during their rampage, a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study says.
Airborne lead soared to 110 times normal levels during the wildfires, according to readings taken by an air monitoring site located about 14 miles from the Eaton Canyon fire.
These heavy doses of lead filled...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 26, 2025
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Newborns are more likely to be born sickly if their moms are exposed to air pollution during pregnancy, a new study says.
A woman's exposure to air pollution during the last month of pregnancy can increase their newborn’s risk of landin...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 18, 2025
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That busy highway could be contributing to depression, and not just because you’re snarled in a traffic jam.
Air pollution from traffic appears to increase risk of depression among women, according to a new study pub...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 27, 2025
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Runners put a lot of thought into how much they must eat and drink to endure a 26.2-mile marathon, properly fueling their bodies to sustain a record-setting pace.
But the quality of the air they huff and puff during endurance events could also play a key role in their performance, a new study says.
Higher levels of air pollution are associated with slower average marathon finish tim...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 26, 2024
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Microscopic plastic particles in the air could be contributing to a wide variety of health problems, including lung and colon cancers.
Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic which become airborne, creating a form of air pollution that’s not very well understood, a new review say...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 18, 2024
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Air pollution could be harming the brain development of children before they are even born, a new study warns.
A 10 parts-per-billion increase in ozone exposure during the second trimester of pregnancy was associated with a 55% increased risk of intellectual disability among chi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 16, 2024
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Breathing in smoggy air over time can significantly raise a person's chances for dangerous blood clots, new research shows.
“What’s striking from our study is the increase in serious blood clotting disease with exposure to some of the most common types of pollutants in the air we breathe,” said study lead author
Decades of lead exposure from car exhaust altered the mental health of millions of Americans, making them more prone to depression, anxiety and ADHD, a new study claims.
Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923 to help keep car engines healthy, researchers said.
But lead is toxic to brain cells, and there’s no safe level of exposure at any point in life. Children are especiall...
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- December 4, 2024
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People in Southern California with relatively high exposures to wildfire smoke over a decade also had significantly higher risks for dementia, a new study warns.
In fact, the fine-particle pollution created by these fires seems more closely tied to brain trouble than similar pollutants from factories and car exhaust, the researchers noted.
Over the long-term, every one-microgram-pe...
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- November 25, 2024
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Cases of the autoimmune skin condition eczema appear to rise in areas most plagued by air pollution, new research shows.
Since data has long shown that rates of eczema -- clinically known as atopic dermatitis -- increase along with industrialization, dirty air mig...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 15, 2024
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Babies who breathe in polluted air tend to have higher rates of peanut allergy as they grow up, but the same wasn't true for immune-based conditions like egg allergy or eczema, Australian researchers report.
Why the connection to peanut allergy in particular?
That's not yet clear, said study lead author
Accident victims tend to flood emergency rooms on days with heavy air pollution, a new study shows.
The number of patients treated at ERs increase by 10% to 15% on days with increased particle pollution in the air, researchers found.
That increase is driven by cases of trauma, along with more people suffering
Even air pollution levels considered safe by U.S. standards appear to cause differences in the brains of growing children, a new review suggests.
"We're seeing differences in brain outcomes between children with higher levels of pollution exposure versus lower levels of pollution exposure," said corresponding author Camelia ...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- October 3, 2024
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Climate change and worsening diets are sending global rates of stroke and stroke deaths skyward, a new study warns.
Almost 12 million people worldwide had a stroke in 2021, up 70% since 1990, according to a team led by Valery Feigin, of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.
It's now the third leading cause of d...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 19, 2024
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Cadmium, uranium, cobalt: These and other metals found in the environment can collect in the body and exacerbate heart disease, new research suggests.
"Our findings highlight the importance of considering metal exposure as a significant risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardi...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 18, 2024
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Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be causing big climate problems for Mother Earth, a new study warns.
Each inhaler dose contains some of the most potent greenhouse gases known, and they are adding up, researchers reported recently in the
City living may be tough on couples wanting to conceive: New data shows that air pollution appears to be linked to lower fertility in men, while noisy traffic could harm the fertility of women.
“If our results are confirmed in future studies, it suggests that political implementation of air pollution and noise mitigations may be important tools for improving birth rates in the weste...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 5, 2024
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Americans of means are fleeing heavily polluted places in the United States for cleaner locales, a new study has found.
Pollution levels are a factor in families’ decision to move within the United States, but only richer households can afford to move to areas with better air qualit...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 26, 2024
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Fireworks displays can cause worse air quality than wildfire smoke, a new study reveals.
About 60,000 firework shells exploded over Manhattan’s East River as part of Macy’s Fourth of July show in 2023, researchers said.
The colorful bursts caused air pollution in New York City to spike dramatically, with levels many times higher in the hours after the display than was ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 6, 2024
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Wildfire smoke could interfere with the safety of surgeries, a new study warns.
Inhaling the smoke could complicate the effects of anesthesia on surgical patients, and it also might hamper their recovery, researchers reported Aug. 6 in the journal Anesthesiology.
“Wildfire smoke poses significant health risks, particularly in people with preexisting heart and lung dis...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 6, 2024
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New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.
The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.
In a study published Wednesday in
The wildfires thats are increasing with climate change could harm the future brain health of humanity, a new study suggests.
Wildfire smoke appears to increase people’s risk of a dementia diagnosis even more than other types of air pollution, researchers
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 1, 2024
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Bad news for Olympians headed to Paris -- high levels of ozone pollution and grass pollen are likely during the upcoming games if hot, sunny weather prevails, researchers said.
Ozone levels in Paris and its environs tend to exceed World Health Organization (WHO) recommended thresholds about 20 days per month between July and September, according to an analysis of air quality monitoring da...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 26, 2024
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Wildfires raging in several states and Canada are triggering air quality alerts and evacuation orders across the western parts of the United States.
Smoke and haze have filled the skies in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and several other western states: As of Wednesday, there were 79 large, active wildfires that have burned over 1.4 million acres across the country, accordin...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- July 25, 2024
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Online retail giants like Amazon have made it easier for people to buy what they want when they want it, but that convenience comes at a cost to people’s health, a new study says.
Huge warehouses that support online shopping increase air pollution in the neighborhoods where they’re located, increasing residents’ risk of
Exposure to air pollution can significantly reduce the odds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) leading to a live birth, a new study says.
The odds of a live birth are nearly 40% lower in women heavily exposed to particle pollution in the two weeks before her eggs were collected for IVF, com...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 8, 2024
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Exposure to air pollution as a child increases an adult's risk of bronchitis, a new study warns.
Young adults with bronchitis symptoms tended to have been exposed during childhood to two types of air pollutants, researchers found:
Particle pollution from dust, pollen, wi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 28, 2024
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After helping America through one of its worst tragedies, some responders to the events of 9/11 may now face another foe: Heightened risks for dementia.
A new study looks at the health of thousands of firemen, construction workers and others who worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) si...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- June 12, 2024
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Many Louisiana residents are being exposed to a cancer-causing toxic gas that's used in industrial settings, researchers report.
A cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab found dangerous levels of ethylene oxide along large stretches of Louisiana, sometimes at levels a thou...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 11, 2024
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It might be hoped that replacing a diesel school bus with a clean electric model would pay off for health and the environment.
New research suggests that it does -- and gives a dollar figure for that payoff.
Replacing a diesel bus with a clean electric model yields up to $247,600 in climate and health benefits per bus, according to research from Harvard University's T.H. Chan Schoo...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- May 22, 2024
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People in homes with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide, a new study says.
Typical use of these stoves increases exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by an estimated 4 parts per billion, averaged over a year, researchers report.
That's three-quarters of the way to the NO2 exposure level deemed unsafe in outdoor air by the World Health ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 3, 2024
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Nearly 40% of Americans live where the air is polluted enough to harm them, a new report warns.
In the American Lung Association's "State of the Air"report, released Wednesday, the number of people living with levels of air pollution that could jeopardize their health climbed from about 119 million in 2023 to 131 million now.
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- April 24, 2024
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Two common PFAS "forever chemicals" have been deemed hazardous substances by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The new designation, enacted under the country's
Planting trees and bushes near busy highways helps clear the air of harmful air pollutants from motor vehicles, new research affirms.
"They provide benefits that go beyond aesthetics," Roby Greenwald, an associate professor of public health at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said in a university news release.
"B...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 20, 2024
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There's a toxic stew of chemicals in polluted air that can all trigger asthma attacks in kids, new research shows.
Also, where a child lives -- for example, near factories or highways -- greatly influences how much they're exposed to these toxins, reports a team from Washington State University in Spokane.
"It's not just one pollutant that can be linked to
Living close to trees and other greenery could be keeping your bones strong, a new 12-year study suggests.
Folks whose residences were near spots deemed "green" by satellite imagery tended to have better bone density than those who lived elsewhere, Chinese researchers found.
Reductions in air pollution seemed key to greenery's benefit for bones, according to a team led by
Air pollution harms the health of everyone exposed to it, but a new study says communities of color are disproportionately harmed by dirty air.
Smog causes nearly 8 times higher childhood asthma rates and 1.3 times higher risk of premature death among minority communities compared to white communities, researchers found.
These elevated risks are a matter of geography, said study co-...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 6, 2024
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People exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution are more likely to have more amyloid plaques in their brain, a condition associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.
Seniors were nearly twice as likely to have more amyloid plaques if, in the year before their death, they lived in places with high concentrations of particle pollution caused by traffic, results sho...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 22, 2024
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If all cars and trucks sold in America were "zero emission" by 2040 and the country's electric grid was also powered by clean energy, nearly 2.8 million child asthma attacks would be prevented annually, a new report finds.
The American Lung Association (ALA) report also estimates that with cleaner air, 508 infant lives ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 21, 2024
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Nearly 15% of Americans still deny that climate change is real, according to a new national assessment from the University of Michigan.
Evidence of climate change has been mounting, including science which has shown that climate-related natural disasters are growing in frequency and intensity sooner than originally predicted, researchers said.
Nevertheless, climate change is still n...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 16, 2024
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Few can forget the haunting images of New York City bathed in a thick orange smog after smoke from Canadian wildfires swept southward last summer.
Now, a new report from the First Street Foundation suggests these alarming effects of climate change are becoming far more common, wit...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 13, 2024
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is cracking down on air pollution.
Specifically, the agency introduced a tougher air quality standard that takes aim at fine particulate matter -- the tiny bits of pollution that can penetrate the lungs -- by lowering the allowable annual concentration of the deadly pollutant that each state can have.
"This final air qua...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 9, 2024
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Deaths related to ozone air pollution will rise significantly around the world during the next two decades due to climate change, a new study warns.
Cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa can expect to see ozone-related deaths increase by as many as 6,200 fatalities a year by 2054 unless humans rein in global warming, researchers project.
"This paper is further ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 30, 2024
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An American's income and ethnicity could play a role in how clean the air is that they breathe, a new study finds.
Air pollution emissions have fallen more in wealthier areas, and less in areas with larger Hispanic or American Indian populations.
Overall, U.S. air pollution emissions have decreased substantially, but the magnitude of the change varies based on demographics, the rese...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 17, 2024
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