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Clean air protects lives

...e studies confirm a significant connection between polluted air and cause of death. In an accompanying commentary, one researcher wrote that while these studies suggest the need for further research, they also point out the need for changes in public health policy. Industry-related pollutants and traffic emis...

Pollution Found To Impair Lung Development

...ntal Health Sciences, children who live in heavily polluted cities are five-times more likely to have poor lun...f participants. The data showed children living in polluted cities had a lower capacity to exhale than children living in cleaner cities. Thus researchers say p...

Asbestos Exposure Associated With An Increased Risk For Autoimmune Disease

...ined 50 residents from Libby, which is known to be polluted by asbestos. They found these residents were more likely to have a class of autoantibodies known as antinuclear antibodies compared to the control group. ANAs, the researchers explain, are often found in people whose immune systems may be predisposed...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

...nborn child by the air they inhale. Inhalation of polluted air of the metros can change the chromosomes of the fetus in womb. Pollutant particles emitted from the cars, trucks, buses, tobacco smoke, combustion etc can penetrate the placenta enough to harm the chromosome of the fetus. The research conducted...

Arsenic poisoning reactions can be traced to genes

...ers. It can enter the body through water that gets polluted by toxic wastes of the industries, and leaves the body through the urine after causing as much damage as possible. The research done by scientists from University of Arizona reports that individual genetic inheritance defines how much the arsenic ta...

Air Pollution Linked To Heart Disease And Heart Attacks

...owed one important effect of chronically breathing polluted air: additional early deaths due to cardiovascular...of more atherosclerosis) than those living in less polluted areas. The Harvard Heart Letter recommends that if people have heart disease, diabetes, or lung pro...

The Falling Sperm Count In Men

... Water Pollutions : Water is now getting slowly polluted more so by women taking oral contraceptive pills. These are excreted in the urine and increase the level of estrogen in the water. This in turn when ingested increases its level in the blood and causes problem with male fertility. The synthetic cont...

Air pollution found to increase risk of ischemic stroke

...has been established from a study that exposure to polluted air is associated with a significant increase in the incidence// of ischemic stroke that occurs when a blood clot travels to the brain. Researchers examined the air quality on a total of 37,000 days in nine separate cities, and found that risk of ho...

The Exposure Of Cadmium And Its Effects On Kidneys

...rom exposures in occupational settings or severely polluted areas. The effects of low-level exposure are less ... concentrations reported for populations in highly polluted areas in Europe and Japan. Current or former smokers had cadmium concentrations that were 90% higher...

Bird Flu Alert In Jammu And Kashmir

...ir ducks in wetlands and use the water that may be polluted with diseased or dead infected wild birds. People have also been warned to ensure that birds are not killed in wetlands, water bodies or anywhere in inundated paddy fields, local village ponds or in water logged areas. People have also been reque...

Benzene Slick In China Highlights Water Pollution

...estimated 190 million Chinese, who regularly drink polluted water, is now in sharp focus due to the benzene sl...d. "Without scientific guidance, some rivers are polluted with illegal discharge of waste and overuse of fertilizers," he was quoted as saying. The pollutio...

Iranian Government Declares Holiday Due To Pollution

...are kilometers in size, is one of the world's most polluted cities. On weekdays, the population in the city reaches between 12 to 15 million, leading to traffic jams and pollution in the city center. The start of the subway system in recent years has not helped solve the problem and only the expansion of th...

Link Established Between Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution

...sis, and may explain why people who live in highly polluted areas have a higher risk of heart disease. The findings are also important because the fine particle concentrations used in the study were well within the range of concentrations found in the air around major metropolitan areas. The researchers d...

Exposure To Cadmium Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

...ed food or water or inhalation of tobacco smoke or polluted air. Using a random population sample of 994 participants from north-east Belgium, Staessen and colleagues prospectively investigated whether environmental exposure to cadmium is associated with an increased risk of cancer, in particular lung cance...

Air Pollution and Cancer

...n people in a particular area breathed in the same polluted air 24 hours a day for 70 years. The agency said that even a score of 1 in a million would be a huge cause for concern. The EPSA analysis showed that it was not hue industries, but smaller commercial establishments like gas stations and dry cleani...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

...worst kind of abuse," she said. "It made them feel polluted and unclean. The sessions made them realise the sanctity of their bodies." Though Sohini's courses have several levels, so far only one session could be organised. She is expected to return to Kathmandu for a second course in summer. Meanwhile, C...

Dirtiest City: New York Wins Hands Down

...ine at New York University, said "People living in polluted cities are at a higher lung cancer risk, and more people are noticing more cases of lung cancer in people who haven't been smokers, so the effects of environmental exposures are becoming more apparent." New Yorkers' face a pronounced risk of develo...

Competitive Advantage Are Attained In Which Freeloaders Are Punished

...might be cleaner and thus more popular than a more polluted nearby town whose inhabitants do not punish polluters, the scientists found that a group that punishes or threatens to punish its freeloaders holds a competitive advantage over a nearly identical group that has no mechanism for punishing freeloaders....

Drinking Tap Water Increases The Risk Of Bladder Cancer

... of bladder cancer. The tap water is said to be so polluted that if one drink too much of it may be a risky// factor for developing the cancer. The study, published in the April 15 issue of International Journal of Cancer, found high intake of tap water or tap water based drinks each day increased the risk ...

Tamil Nadu Air Samples Among The Most Polluted In The Country

...m Tamil Nadu were found to be among the three most polluted samples out of 21 air samples collected from all over the country, the study titled 'Smoke Screen - Ambient Air Quality in India', conducted by a Chennai-based NGO- Community Environmental Monitoring, showed. Of the 21, 13 samples were taken from T...

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