Smog Increasing Risks Of Premature Births By 128%
A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births to air pollution levels in the area revealed that high pollution exposure raised the r...
A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births to air pollution levels in the area revealed that high pollution exposure raised the r...
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living
To effectively reform healthcare in the U.S., we must change not only the way we practice medicine, but also the type of medicine we practice.
Susan Weissman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living
My son, Eden, was three years old before he revealed the limits of his lungs (read: allergic asthma.) It happened after what already seemed like a lifetime of severe food allergies.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living
As you crusade for the health of our children, please know that mothers around the country stand beside you. Our collective abilities can and will bring the change that our children deserve.
Javier Sierra | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green
In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.
Paula Gordon | Posted 03.24.2009 | Green
I don't think being outdoors should be life-threatening. Southern Company, a power company behemoth providing some 5% of the United States' electricity, acts on a very different premise.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
If President Obama's new Food Safety Working Group dedicates all their time and credentials to prevent future food recalls, they will have saved thous...
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living
A vaccine profiteer personified (he is now a multimillionaire from his partnership with Merck) Dr. Offit continues to make intellectually and factually dishonest remarks regarding vaccine safety.
Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.
Paul A. Offit, MD | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
If parents choose not to vaccinate their children, not only do they put their own children at risk, they put others at risk as well.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
Cayne went to Tulane Medical Center during asthmatic distress and was given a dose of prednisone, a drug which she had suffered a bad reaction to before.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 01.01.2009 | Living
Ten years ago, we didn't worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into school with our children, and we didn't medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living
Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma.
Yahoo! News | Julie Steenhuysen | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living
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Sloan Barnett | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green
The cause of my son's asthma may have been me. I may have been poisoning my own son by using certain cleaning products.
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...
TheDailyGreen.com | Dan Shapley | Posted 06.15.2008 | Green
A study of nearly 6,000 children in Munich has found that children are much more likely to develop asthma, allergies and skin rashes if they live near...
Gregg Mitman | Posted 05.25.2008 | Living
The unfolding tragedy is that those who can least afford the new inhaler technology for asthmatics are the ones most affected by the shift to the new green economy.
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living
I was spreading pine straw around the bushes in my yard in Atlanta, Georgia, when I started thinking about... you guessed it! The goofy names that drug companies come up with for their prescription drugs.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
If most childhood diseases are preventable...why are so many on the rise? Because toxic chemicals are everywhere and not enough attention is being given to prevention.
Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
Today, as she has done countless times over the last 35 years, actor Blythe Danner stood up for the environment. Not the newly-sexy environment, but ...
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living
It's bad enough that it can drive you crazy trying to get your prescription medications filled, but now it looks like sometimes your prescription meds themselves can make you, well... nuts.
Katie Halper | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Although often presented as "single issues" poverty, racism, and environmental degradation are interlinked, as low-income people suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments.
David Kirby | Posted 01.27.2008 | Living
Even if America's pediatricians manage to successfully censor fiction and crush artistic freedom, they will never be able to stifle the facts about autism.
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treehugger.com | Posted 06.30.2009 | Green