News Search: Environmental Health Sciences
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Clean air and climate policies aimed at reducing fossil fuel emissions and air pollution prevent large numbers of deaths and illness in adults and children.
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Child and Adolescent Health
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Chronic, low-level lead poisoning is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults and cognitive deficits in children.
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Environmental Health
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The study underscores the need for stronger policies to protect pregnant individuals and offspring, particularly during vulnerable, early life-stage of development.
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Child and Adolescent Health
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A new commentary found that power plants’ use of these devices saved up to 9,100 lives and up to $100 billion in health costs in 2023.
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Environmental Health
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Long term exposure to arsenic in water may increase cardiovascular disease and especially heart disease risk even at exposure levels below the federal regulatory limit.
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New research finds a cumulative beneficial effect of these policies both city-wide and among residents in communities disproportionately affected by air pollution.
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Child and Adolescent Health
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The new center, Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change, is led by public health researchers.
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New York City currently has no protections to curb excessive heat inside apartments.
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Metals in the body from environmental pollutants is associated with progression of harmful plaque buildup in the arteries.
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Environmental Health
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A new study examines electrical, elevator, heat, hot water, and water outages experienced by many of the more than half a million New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents.
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Environmental Health
