Health
Study offers insight on how hot weather impairs the immune system
A study that looked at how the immune system reacts to hot weather offers new insight into what's happening when the mercury rises.
Mar 20, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experts warn climate change will fuel spread of infectious diseases
A team of infectious diseases experts called for more awareness and preparedness in the medical field to deal with the impact of climate change on the spread of diseases. Their article, published in JAMA raises the alarm ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Genetics
Researchers support increased genomic sequencing of dengue for more effective prevention
Dengue is a disease characterized by fever, rash, headache, myalgia, and arthralgia, with a risk for complications due to endothelial dysfunction and hemorrhage. Most common in countries in Central and South America, Southeast ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Aging population to be major driver of future climate-related deaths, predicts study
Climate change poses profound public health threats to people of all ages. But as the climate changes, the world is facing another public health challenge: aging.
Mar 14, 2024
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Medications
Asthma meds have become shockingly unaffordable—but relief may be on the way
The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.
Mar 8, 2024
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Health
An early start to spring allergies
Though it technically may still be winter, spring allergies in Houston are out in full force. An expert with Baylor College of Medicine gives an upcoming pollen and mold forecast and reviews how to properly use some allergy ...
Mar 6, 2024
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Health
Hazardous heat and humidity is widespread in US jails and prisons, and climate change is worsening conditions
An estimated 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States have been recently exposed to a dangerous combination of heat and humidity, and on average experience 100 days of these conditions each year—many of them ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The cost of Prop. 1: Newsom's plan to transform California's mental health system
If approved by voters on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot measure to overhaul the state's mental health services system and sell bonds to finance more than 10,000 treatment beds across California could cost the state up ...
Mar 2, 2024
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Health
Extreme weather events tied to increased mortality and emergency department activity
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, which may particularly endanger vulnerable populations such as the elderly. Researchers examined how weather disasters between 2011 and 2016 ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Climate change linked to rise in mental distress among teens, finds study
Worsening human-induced climate change may have effects beyond the widely reported rising sea levels, higher temperatures, and impacts on food supply and migration—and may also extend to influencing mental distress among ...
Feb 22, 2024
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