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Good health depends on a stable climate. This fellowship …

WEBIn 2022, the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard teaching hospital, launched a fellowship to equip health care …

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The link between climate change and a spate of rare …

WEBFuture analyses may look at the outbreaks that took place in 2023 individually to determine whether rising temperatures or some other climate change …

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At COP28, world leaders turn a belated spotlight on …

WEBAt COP28, world leaders turn a belated spotlight on human health. Climate health experts applauded the milestone but emphasized the need to phaseout fossil …

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The disease after tomorrow

WEBPowassan virus, or POWV, is a rare, tick-borne illness that infected just 134 people in the U.S. between 2016 and 2020. That may not sound like a lot, but it …

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Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of …

WEBThe report found that the diagnosis, treatment, and management of new cases of Lyme disease nationwide costs between $860 million and $1.6 billion per year. …

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How a looming El Niño could fuel the spread of infectious …

WEBEven public health agencies in the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, do a poor job of assessing infectious disease risk, monitoring pathogens as they move through the environment

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Doctors are already seeing links between climate change …

WEBThe health benefits of mitigating climate change go well beyond the avoided health-care costs from climate-related outcomes. If strategies to reduce carbon pollution and make the air cleaner also

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Climate change linked to early birth and damage to …

WEBThe climate crisis is damaging the health of fetuses, babies, and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Scientists discovered increased heat was …

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The next frontier in medicine: Doctors with climate training

WEBThe latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, finds that the prevalence of climate-related illnesses, premature deaths, …

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'Climate sensitive' diseases are spreading through the US

WEBBacteria. Climate change is helping to spread a bacteria called Vibrio, which proliferates in warm ocean water and causes an illness called vibriosis. Symptoms …

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A deadly fungal disease on the rise in the West has experts worried

WEBIn an email to Grist, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health noted that Valley fever cases in the state nearly tripled between 2015 and 2019, …

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Here’s why your doctor might start asking you about air pollution

WEBIn a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors from Boston College and Case Western Reserve University reviewed the evidence that ties …

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The World Health Organization’s new air quality guidelines ‘could …

WEBThe update, which is the organization’s first since 2005, says that air pollution, alongside climate change, is one of the biggest environmental threats to …

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Clothed in chemicals: A new book sheds light on the toxic

WEBPublic health researchers at Harvard University later analyzed contemporaneous survey data and found a significant increase in the prevalence of …

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Deaths have spiked in this polluted California port community Grist

WEBThe pandemic has only intensified this feeling. A Grist analysis of California Department of Public Health data has found that over 2020 and 2021, Wilmington …

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'Dark Waters' tells the origin story of a public health nightmare

WEBDark Waters chronicles the true story of Bilott’s nearly 20-year battle to hold DuPont accountable. In the end, the story is triumphant: Bilott exposes the company’s …

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How medical supply warehouses poison workers with ethylene …

WEBWhat are the health effects of being exposed to ethylene oxide? Ethylene oxide, which the EPA has labeled a carcinogen, is harmful at concentrations above 0.1 …

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Study: Gas-powered appliances may be hazardous for your health

WEBThe compromised indoor air quality caused by gas-powered furnaces, stoves, and water heaters could increase the likelihood of respiratory and cardiovascular …

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Pennsylvania’s fracking boom is hurting its oldest residents

WEBRay Kemble, a 68-year-old resident of Dimock, a town in northeast Pennsylvania, invested everything he had in his property, a five-bedroom home on a …

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Toxic battery plant has to tell its 12,000 neighbors they might get

WEBThe plant has close to four years to reduce cancer-causing arsenic emissions. A smelter in the Los Angeles area has 30 days to tell its 12,000 neighbors …

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Environmental Justice: Income, Race, and Health

WEBBangladesh is a densely populated country of some 115 million people, living in an area of about 144,000 square kilometers. Bangladesh is located at the delta of three major …

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