Environmental Health

Field testing commenced with aim to improve animal welfare in dairy farming and livestock industriesCredit: Research Center for the Earth Inclusive Sensing Empathizing with Silent Voices A joint project team led by Tokyo…

UMass Amherst researchers enrolling people in community-based studyCredit: UMass Amherst Kinesiology researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received funding to compare the effects of tai chi and mindfulness meditation…

Tokyo - The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) attempted from 2000 to 2015 produced mixed and debatable results. But there was at least one clear MDG victory: safe drinking water. MDG Target 7C sought to halve, by 2015,…

Device inspired by human body's metal sensing mechanismCredit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a portable device, inspired by the ability of the human…

Credit: Jessica Mark Welch and Gary Borisy, PNAS.1522149113 A larger genetic inventory may help explain how certain dangerous bacteria can persist in a hospital environment and continue to infect patients, according to a new study…

Credit: ATS April 9, 2019--Air pollution from diesel engines may worsen allergy-induced lung impairment more when tiny particles are filtered from the exhaust than when they are not, according to new research published online in…

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide air pollutionCredit: Matthew Golden, GW Milken Institute School of Public Health WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 10, 2019) - About 4 million children…

ILC 2019: UK disease clustering study suggests that environmental exposure may play a key role in the development of some autoimmune liver diseases 11 April 2019, Vienna, Austria: Investigators from a large population-based study conducted…

A new model based on remote sensing data could help zero in on where water managers can replenish aquifers by flooding fields. In California, the amount of water exiting aquifers under the state's most productive farming region far…

Microbes in household dust can break down harmful chemicals, study shows COLUMBUS, Ohio--The dust that settles throughout our homes and offices almost always contains bits of chemicals that can cause problems for the human endocrine…