A team of researchers with a wide variety of backgrounds and affiliated with a number of institutions in Canada, including officials with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, has conducted an assessment of indoor air quality for people ...
Around 5–10% of people who get infected with SARS-CoV-2 will experience symptoms that persist way beyond the initial acute period, a clinical syndrome we are learning more about, known widely as long COVID.
Sep 4, 2023
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The New Brunswick legislature recently passed a motion to improve indoor air quality in the province's public buildings "to reduce the spread of airborne illnesses, such as COVID-19."
Jul 6, 2023
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Many residents in social housing in New South Wales can experience alarming levels of winter underheating and summer overheating in their homes that do not meet standards for comfort and health, according to UNSW Sydney-led ...
Sep 14, 2022
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When Emmanuel Obeng-Dankwa is worried about making rent on his New York City apartment, he sometimes holds off on filling his blood pressure medication.
Sep 12, 2022
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Recent torrential rain along the east coast of Australia has sparked renewed fears of mold in people's homes, which can cause dangerous health problems. Many flood-affected residents in northern New South Wales and Queensland ...
Mar 2, 2022
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A study documenting indoor air quality and housing characteristics in 4 isolated First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario found frequent rates of respiratory infections in children under 3 years of age and that high ...
Jan 24, 2022
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've heard that frequent testing should be a key component in controlling spread of the virus. But two years in, Americans continue to struggle finding tests and getting results ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Housing instability and homelessness are widely understood to have an impact on health, and certain housing problems have been linked to specific childhood health conditions, such as mold with asthma. But it has not been ...
Jan 28, 2021
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The US House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would broaden researchers' ability to study marijuana and its effects, a move hailed by cannabis advocates.
Dec 10, 2020
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