http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Air pollutants from traffic are associated with increased asthma severity levels in pregnant asthmatic women, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-exposure-traffic-pollution-asthma-severity.html Health Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:01 EST news288274180 (Medical Xpress)—For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people's homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health consequences of poor indoor air quality are as significant as those from all traffic accidents or infectious diseases in the United States. One major source of indoor pollutants in the home is cooking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hidden-dangers-air.html Health Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:10:01 EST news284885427 (Medical Xpress)—Breathing traffic pollution in early pregnancy is linked to a higher risk for certain serious birth defects, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-air-pollutants-linked-higher-birth.html Health Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:20:05 EST news283762912 One in every 20 cases of the serious condition of pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, may be linked to increased levels of the air pollutant ozone during the first three months, suggests a large study published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cases-pre-eclampsia-linked-air-pollutant.html Health Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news279388290 The rapid shift from nomadic life to modern-day culture in the United Arab Emirates has exposed residents to significant indoor air quality risks that can lead to respiratory illness, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-culturally-sensitive-arab-emirates-indoor.html Health Wed, 09 May 2012 17:13:05 EST news255802377 Mothers' exposure during pregnancy to a class of air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) can lead to behavioral problems in their children. PAH are released to air during incomplete combustion of fossil fuel such as diesel, gasoline, coal, and other organic material. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-prenatal-exposure-combustion-related-pollutants-anxiety.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:20:01 EST news251566321 The cancer-causing potential of fetal exposure to carcinogens can vary substantially, a recent study suggests, causing different types of problems much later in life depending on the stage of pregnancy when the fetus is exposed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-cancer-fetal-exposure-carcinogens-dose.html Cancer Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:18:03 EST news243177425 A study conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has found that diesel exhaust particulates (DEP) and house dust extract (HDE) causes pulmonary inflammation that aggravates asthma. The study led by principle investigator Jiyoun Kim, PhD, professor of pathology, was published in the December issue of The American Journal of Pathology and was selected by the editorial board as the only article for an in-depth discussion in the journal's commentary section. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-link-pulmonary-inflammation-diesel-exhaust.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:33:19 EST news243084794 In three new studies published in the May issue of the journal Health Affairs, Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers reveal the staggering economic impact of toxic chemicals and air pollutants in the environment, and propose new legislation to mandate testing of new chemicals and also those already on the market. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-environmental-disease-children-billion-year.html Health Wed, 04 May 2011 17:18:23 EST news223748180 Mothers' exposure during pregnancy to pollutants created by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and other organic material may lead to behavioral problems in their children, according to a new study. Researchers found that within a sample of 215 children monitored from birth, those children with high levels of a pollution exposure marker in their cord blood had more symptoms of attention problems and anxiety/depression at ages 5 and 7 than did children with lower exposure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-prenatal-exposure-pollutants-linked-behavioral.html Health Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:44:33 EST news221820258