When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to treat heat-aggravated illness in homeless people, elderly ...
Oct 4, 2021
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University of Minnesota Medical School graduate students analyzed and summarized literature on the health effects of chemical demonstration control agents, such as tear gas, including the studies which informed existing exposure ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Twice a year, Brian Tichenor makes the 1,200-mile drive each way from his home in Kansas to a defunct uranium mine in Montana, where he takes an elevator 85 feet below the surface to sit amid radioactive radon gas to ease ...
Aug 2, 2021
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A new study from Oregon State University found that infants born within 3 kilometers of oil and natural gas drilling facilities in Texas had slightly lower birthweights than those born before drilling began in their vicinity.
Jul 21, 2021
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If you're a clinician who wants to look inside your patient's lungs, your options historically have been limited.
Jun 2, 2021
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The Wellcome Trust's commitment to tackle the health impacts of carbon emissions is threatened by its own lingering investments in the fossil fuel industry.
May 20, 2021
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Exposure to pollen can raise your risk of developing COVID-19, and it isn't just a problem for people with allergies, new research released March 9 shows. Plant physiologist Lewis Ziska, a co-author of the new peer-reviewed ...
Mar 10, 2021
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Serbia will shut down all but essential businesses over the weekend to combat a spike in new coronavirus cases, the government-appointed crisis team said Friday.
Mar 5, 2021
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Greenhouse gas emissions associated with national dietary guidelines advocating a healthy diet vary greatly between countries, with US guidelines having the largest carbon footprint and India having the smallest, according ...
Mar 2, 2021
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The Dutch government said on Monday it is extending until March 2 its night-time coronavirus curfew, the introduction of which last month sparked the country's worst riots in four decades.
Feb 8, 2021
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