Homes have become 'too clean' and could benefit from the introduction of 'healthy germs' which introduce friendly bacteria to potentially stave off a host of childhood illnesses, including asthma, experts suggest.
Mar 18, 2024
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Curbing levels of harmful air pollution could help reduce antibiotic resistance, according to the first in-depth global analysis of possible links between the two, published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.
Aug 7, 2023
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TU Delft, NOC*NSF, KNSB and Innovation Lab Thialf have been using the "Ring of Fire" measuring system to analyze top Dutch speed skaters. The measuring system was used last week in Heerenveen to measure and visualize the ...
Mar 4, 2021
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Exposure to air pollution, particularly at school, could be associated with a higher risk of overweight and obesity during childhood. This is the conclusion of a study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), ...
Feb 1, 2019
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Thousands of scientists, activists and disease survivors Saturday wrap up a global conference on lung health dominated by the announcement of several breakthroughs in the battle against tuberculosis.
Oct 27, 2018
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A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has laid out a series of mathematical calculations showing how one or more of the world's elite men marathoners could break the storied two-hour mark, shaving about four and ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Polluted city air has now been identified as a possible means of transmission for resistant bacteria. Researchers in Gothenburg have shown that air samples from Beijing contain DNA from genes that make bacteria resistant ...
Nov 18, 2016
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Exposure to air pollution at the place of residence increases the risk of developing insulin resistance as a pre-diabetic state of type 2 diabetes. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with colleagues ...
Sep 8, 2016
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Laboratory rats who breathed Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunctions after three to eight weeks of exposure.
Feb 19, 2016
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New research shows that growing up in areas where air pollution is increased raises the risk of insulin resistance (the prescursor to diabetes) in children. The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European ...
May 9, 2013
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