Indoor dust is proving to be polluted with chemicals from everyday consumer products according to a new comprehensive study released from George Washington University and the Milken Institute. The researchers compiled dust data from households throughout America. Some of these chemicals contain compounds that are well known for adverse health effects, as well as those suspected …
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have discovered that sex hormones have an effect that extends far beyond the reproductive system; progesterone may eventually be a possible flu treatment for women. Progesterone, a female hormone contained in the majority of hormone-based birth control, appears to fend off the worst effects of …
Physical activity heightens respiratory processes and may raise the deposition of air pollutants in the lung. But a team from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) submits that there are benefits to exercise that outweigh the harmful effects of air pollution. Zorana Jovanovic Andersen and colleagues analyzed data collected on 52,061 subjects, aged 50-65 years, enrolled …
Upper respiratory problems such as asthma affect 6.3 million children and 17.7 million adults in the United States. Asthma, categorized as chest tightness, coughing, shortness of breath and wheezing, is followed by inflammation and narrowing of the bronchial tubes, making it difficult for individuals to breathe. There are two types of asthma, allergic asthma and …
A serious and sometimes fatal lung-related vascular disease, pulmonary embolism is caused by obstruction of the pulmonary arteries by blood clots, generally formed in the leg vessels. Toru Shirakawa, from Osaka University (Japan), and colleagues completed an 18-year long study involving 86,024 men and women, ages 40 to 79 years, who self-reported their daily television …
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