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Canadian wildfires led to spike in asthma ER visits, especially in the Northeast
Three studies show smoke from Canadian wildfires led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms in the United States
Source: ABC News: Health - August 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Led to Spike in Asthma ER Visits, Especially in New York
(NEW YORK) — The smoke from Canadian wildfires that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms—particularly in the New York area.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday about the health impacts of the smoke, which shrouded city skylines with an orange haze in late spring. A medical journal also released a study this week.
When air quality worsens, “an asthmatic feels it before anyone else,” said Dr. Adrian Pristas, a pulmonologist based in Hazlet, New Jersey, who r...
Source: TIME: Health - August 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Asthma-Associated Emergency Department Visits During the Canadian Wildfire Smoke Episodes - United States, April- August 2023
This report describes asthma-associated emergency department visits across the U.S. during 19 days of wildfire smoke.
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - August 24, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Asthma Emergency Department Visits MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Wildfires Source Type: news
Canadian Wildfire Smoke ' s Health Impact on NYC Residents May Have Been Less Than Feared
THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Living through days of smoky air from Canadian wildfires in June was unpleasant for New York City residents, but new data shows it wasn ' t as immediately concerning for their lungs as feared.
The research finds...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Japan Is Releasing Wastewater Into the Pacific: What to Know About Radioactivity and Seafood
Early afternoon local time on Thursday, after years of questions and criticisms directed at the plan, Japan has begun the controversial release into the Pacific Ocean of water previously used to cool the reactors at the defunct Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant after they were damaged in 2011 by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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The 1.3 million metric tons of treated wastewater—enough to fill more than 500 Olympic-size swimming pools—are currently stored in more than 1,000 tanks at the site of the power plant, and it is expected to take up to four decades to ...
Source: TIME: Science - August 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Chad de Guzman Tags: Uncategorized Japan Source Type: news
Lonely but not alone: Examining correlates of loneliness among Canadian post-secondary students - Fagan MJ, Wunderlich K, Wu C, Fang M, Faulkner G.
OBJECTIVE: Loneliness is increasingly acknowledged as a public health concern due to its association with morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of loneliness is highest in the post-secondary population. Understanding the correlates of loneliness may assi...
Source: SafetyLit - August 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
For Amazon, Mark Cuban And Abarca Pharmacy Venture, Growth May Run Through Blue Plans
If the Amazon, Mark Cuban, Abarca venture is to grow, it may need to lure more Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 23, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Business /business Retail /retail pharma standard Source Type: news
Climate Change Made Eastern Canada ’ s Wildfires Twice as Likely
Climate change more than doubled the chances of the hot, dry weather that helped fuel the unprecedented wildfire season in eastern Canada that’s driven thousands from their homes and blanketed parts of the U.S. with choking smoke, according to an analysis released Tuesday.
What’s more, human-caused climate change made the fire season in Quebec — from May through July — 50% more intense than it otherwise would have been and increased the likelihood of similarly severe fire seasons at least sevenfold, researchers said.
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“The biggest takeaway is,...
Source: TIME: Science - August 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: TAMMY WEBBER / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
The experience of childhood sexual abuse: an exploratory description of psychological and adaptive functioning in Canadian men - Moorman J, Romano E.
BACKGROUND: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) affects a number of men yet knowledge gaps remain around comprehensively describing psychological and adaptive outcomes for this population. OBJECTIVE: Examine how a Canadian sample of men with and without C...
Source: SafetyLit - August 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Unintentional pediatric ingestion of cannabis-addressing a growing public health risk - Tobin T, Xie J, George K.
Cannabis use and policy continue to evolve worldwide. A recent Canadian study,1 for example, concluded that "placing restrictions on the sale of visually attractive and palatable commercial cannabis edibles is a key strategy and policy consideration for pr...
Source: SafetyLit - August 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Canadian Retail Sales MoM Actual 0.1% (Forecast 0%, Previous 0.2%)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Canadian Core Retail Sales MoM Actual -0.8% (Forecast 0.3%, Previous 0.0%)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
In 2021, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines—and got himself fired—when he claimed that LaMDA, the chatbot he’d been testing, was sentient. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially so-called large language models such as LaMDA and ChatGPT, can certainly seem conscious. But they’re trained on vast amounts of text to imitate human responses. So how can we really know?
Now, a group of 19 computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers has come up with an approach: not a single definitive test, but a lengthy checklist of attributes that, together, could suggest but not prove an AI is consci...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Canada to seek judicial review of latest U.S. decision on softwood lumber duties
The federal government is pushing back against the latest U.S. decision to keep imposing duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Canada has filed for a judicial review of last month's U.S. Commerce Department assessment of the levies, which International Trade Minister Mary Ng described in a statement…#uscommercedepartment #internationaltrade #maryng #charlottetown #crown #katherinetai #neithercommerce #wto #commercedepartment #andrewmiller
Source: Reuters: Health - August 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
PD Labs up for incentives for new Cedar Park HQ
PD Labs — a nationally licensed, research-based specialty pharmacy — wants extra space to add a lifestyle medicine clinic and host seminars and other events. Its president says the company is "bulging at the seams" in its current space. Click through for more details.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 22, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Justin Sayers Source Type: news
