Health
Avoiding 'wine teeth' at those holiday parties
The holidays are all about parties, and parties are all about drinking wine. But if you're a red wine lover, how do you avoid stained teeth?
Dec 12, 2023
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News tagged with carbon
Medical economics
Q&A: How to care for patients while reducing gastroenterology's environmental impact
Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills.
Dec 7, 2023
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Health
Western wildfires reversed decades of gains from air pollution-fighting measures: Study
The increasing number and intensity of wildfires in the Western U.S. are overshadowing other achievements at reducing emissions, aggravating air pollution and increasing disease and mortality, according to a new study led ...
Dec 6, 2023
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Health
Breathing highway air increases blood pressure, research finds
For more than a century, American cities have been sliced and diced by high-traffic roadways. Interstate highways and wide arterials are now a defining feature of most metropolitan areas, their constant flow of cars spewing ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Medical research
Discovery of hemoglobin in the epidermis sheds new light on our skin's protective properties
Researchers have shown for the first time that hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells where it binds oxygen, is also present in the epidermis, our skin's outermost body tissue. The study, which appears in the Journal ...
Nov 17, 2023
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Overweight & Obesity
Study: People with obesity burn less energy during day
Weight influences how and when bodies burn energy, new research indicates.
Nov 15, 2023
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Health
Easy diet changes can lower carbon footprint, according to study
Researchers led by the Stanford School of Medicine have identified a set of simple food swaps that can make a big difference in an individual's carbon footprint—without the need for a drastic dietary overhaul. The suggestions ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is climate change increasing substance abuse?
We knew that climate change and its effects—natural disasters, pandemics, pollution—are negatively impacting mental and physical health around the world. Now a new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science ...
Oct 4, 2023
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Health
Handkerchief or tissue? Which one's better for our health and the planet?
Maybe you have hay fever, COVID, a cold or the flu, and are reaching for a tissue or handkerchief.
Sep 29, 2023
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Health
Heat waves and hot temperatures are hard on the body—but a series of built-in adaptations make it easier to cope
Record-breaking temperatures have been recorded in many countries in 2023. In some parts of Europe, summer temperatures even exceeded 45℃.
Sep 8, 2023
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