Pollution http://pollution23.com/blog Pollute No More Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Death Risks Higher For Heart Attack Survivors Living Near Major Roadways http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/death-risks-higher-for-heart-attack-survivors-living-near-major-roadways/ http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/death-risks-higher-for-heart-attack-survivors-living-near-major-roadways/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:06 +0000 http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/death-risks-higher-for-heart-attack-survivors-living-near-major-roadways/ Heart attack survivors who live about 100 meters (328 feet) or less from a major U.S. roadway face increased risk of death from all causes, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation…

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1980. Believe it or not, nearly 25 million people in the United States
are asthma sufferers. And while there’s no shortage of theories about
why asthma is becoming a major health concern, there is a shortage of
definite answers. Which has led many people to ask why is asthma on

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]]> http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/why-asthmas-on-the-rise-and-the-new-asthma-treatments-379/feed/ 0 New UV Disinfection Device http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/new-uv-disinfection-device/ http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/new-uv-disinfection-device/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:08 +0000 http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/new-uv-disinfection-device/ Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ranging from drinking-water treatment to sterilizing surgical tools…

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]]> http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/new-uv-disinfection-device/feed/ 0 Environmental Epigenetics And Ovarian Disease http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/environmental-epigenetics-and-ovarian-disease/ http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/environmental-epigenetics-and-ovarian-disease/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:05 +0000 http://pollution23.com/blog/2012/05/environmental-epigenetics-and-ovarian-disease/ Washington State University researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations. WSU reproductive biologist Michael Skinner and his laboratory colleagues looked at how a fungicide, pesticide, plastic, dioxin and hydrocarbon mixtures affected a gestating rat’s progeny for multiple generations…

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