Environmental Health

A new study published on 24 January 2020 in the journal Toxics provides important insight into the recent lung intoxication epidemic referred to as "e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury" (EVALI). The study presents,…

Nasal congestion, sneezing and other symptoms typical of rhinitis found to be more severe in people living in areas where levels of fine particulate matter and NO2 are high Barcelona, 23 January 2020. The nasal symptoms of rhinitis are…

Previously unreleased data offer unprecedented view into mining industry's waste storage practices Environmental organization GRID-Arendal has launched the world's first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage…

Living near major roads or highways is linked to higher incidence of dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS), suggests new research published this week in the journal Environmental Health.…

A review article in the journal Science calls for an effort on the scale of the Human Genome Project to map the cumulative health effects of environmental exposures Over the last two decades, the health sciences have been transformed by…

We live in an increasingly complex world when it comes to chemicals. The number of new chemicals has increased from 20 million in 2002 to 156 million last year. Many of these are ubiquitous in the world around us because of their…

UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has received a $462,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand…

A new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, shows that exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) can increase an individual's susceptibility to pneumococcal disease. The bacterium Streptococcus…

Credit: Ryan Moriarty/UW Tacoma The waters of Puget Sound support many species, including mussels, salmon and killer whales. But researchers know that runoff from land in the urbanized areas might contain chemicals that…

Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Attending Physician, Well-Baby Nursery Columbia University, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry New York State Psychiatric Institute The Society for Pediatric Research…