An analysis of nearly 28 million Medicare beneficiaries indicates that long-term exposure to air pollution is a risk factor ...

Tiny air pollution particles may be doing more than irritating our lungs. A new study links long-term exposure to PM2.5 to a ...

Exposure to air pollution may directly increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.

Clean air laws have led to a significant reduction in long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution across much of the ...

The authors add, “In this large national study of older adults, we found that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution was associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, largely ...

On top of the fact that Wednesday is a messy, murky day weather-wise in the tri-state area, much of the region is also under an air quality alert due to elevated levels of fine particulate matter (PM ...

Children exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter and water damage/home dampness in their early life had a heightened risk for childhood asthma, according to data published in Environmental ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic-particularly widespread mask-wearing-may have reduced the risk of certain types of heart attacks ...

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us vulnerable to infection. In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that ...

The global pollution exposure slope and Mann-Kendall trend of PM 2.5 from 2001 to 2020. Blank land areas indicate no data or not enough observations or failed the significance test (P<0.05). Air ...