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Wildfire smoke is sending more people to the hospital with heart attacks
Tribune via AOL· 3 days agoMore patients show up at Midwest emergency rooms with heart attacks when Canadian wildfire smoke coats the region with dirty air, new federal research showed. Epidemiologists with the Centers ...
Iowa sees impaired air quality from wildfires. Where is it the worst in the state?
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPoor air quality can cause and worsen lung diseases, according to the CDC. Immediate effects include coughing, wheezing, runny nose, headaches, stringing eyes and chest pain ...
Richard Feldman column: COVID is not gone; proceed with caution
The Herald Bulletin· 2 days agoThere’s an expression, “You may be done with COVID, but COVID isn’t done with you.” The situation...
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The Christian Science Monitor· 2 days agoAs more than 17 million American workers are out of a job, Sharon Goen, a former hospitality worker in Las Vegas, is having the opposite experience. “We’re not making a living wage,” she says of gig workers.
Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 | Newswise
Newswise· 2 days agoChanging people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19...
Youth First: Help your child build resiliency
Washington Times-Herald· 5 days agoProfessionals continue to observe a rise in mental health-related struggles in school-aged children since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. According to the Center for Disease and Control ...
Browntail moth caterpillars may be facing ‘zombie’ apocalypse in Maine
The Lewiston Sun Journal· 3 days agoA browntail moth winter web is covered with small, dead, infected caterpillars from last fall. It...
What Does Mold Actually Smell Like?
Bob Vila via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA stale and damp smell in the air is often a telltale sign of mold. No number of open windows or amount of air freshener can fully remove the odor...
‘Diary of a Dying Girl’: A mother’s loss launches a global effort to fight antibiotic resistance
The Buffalo News· 4 days agoIn November 2017, days after her daughter Mallory Smith died from a drug-resistant infection at the...
How is Conn. keeping milk safe from bird flu — and preparing for potential human pandemic?
The Day· 5 days agoConnecticut officials say they will be much more prepared than they were for COVID-19 if a deadly flu virus now affecting dairy cows and other animals makes the jump to humans. "We've been planning ...
