Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
As many as 34 percent of the people who spend most of their time indoors, in offices and at homes, have various types of respiratory diseases because of the indoor air pollution. According to a survey conducted by Artemis hospital, 82 per cent of the offices in the national capital …
A woman whose daughter died from an asthma attack wants an investigation to find out whether worsening air pollution in London contributed to the death. Ella Kissi-Debrah, nine, from Hither Green near the capital’s busy south circular road, died in February 2013. Through a lawyer, her mother, Rosamund, is calling …
This study, different from the past researches, has been conducted in all age groups to understand the association between air pollutants, pollen risk indexes, and outpatients with allergic rhinitis (AR), asthma, and atopic dermatitis (AD). Original Source
Although it is known that acetaminophen causes oxidative injury in the liver, it is not known whether it causes oxidative stress in the respiratory tract. If so, this widely used analgesic may potentiate the adverse effects of oxidant air pollutants. The goal of this study was to determine if acetaminophen …
Investigations in urban areas have just begun to explore how the indoor dust microbiome may affect the pathogenesis of asthma and allery. We aimed to investigate the early fungal and bacterial microbiome in house dust with allergic sensitization and wheezing later in childhood. Original Source
MONTEVIDEO – Uruguayan Deputy Health Minister Cristina Lustemberg reported on Wednesday in a press conference that four people have died in the South American country from the Type A H1N1 swine flu strain. She said that Uruguay is suffering an outbreak of the flu because of the cold temperatures brought …
Living in Delhi could be like exposing yourself to second-hand smoke from several people all day .C Arden Pope III, Mary Lou Fulton professor of economics at Brigham Young University , told TOI in an interview that being exposed to PM 2.5 (fine, respirable particles) of 100 to 150 micrograms …
Ahmedabad: Respiratory disease cases in Gujarat have been skyrocketing over the past few years. A recent report from the Union health ministry has shockingly revealed that in Gujarat, between 2013 and 2015, the number of patients of respiratory diseases grew by more than a lakh each year. While there were …
Dust particulate matter is the leading cause of the chronic respiratory disorder: doctors India has witnessed a huge rise in asthma in the past decade, especially among children, due to a spike in environmental pollution, experts have said. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder due to inflammation of the airways …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has proposed to set up ambient air quality monitoring systems in cities with the help of public sector undertakings, the government said today. "CPCB has proposed to set up Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System (CAAQMS) in 46 million plus cities under corporate social …
Availability of sophisticated statistical modelling for developing robust reference equations has improved interpretation of lung function results. In 2012, the Global Lung function Initiative(GLI) published the first global all-age, multi-ethnic reference equations for spirometry but these lacked equations for those originating from the Indian subcontinent (South-Asians). The aims of this …
Prenatal exposure to ambient PM2.5, (i.e., fine particulate matter) has been associated with preterm birth and low birth weight. The association between prenatal PM2.5 exposure and intrauterine inflammation (IUI), an important risk factor for preterm birth and neurodevelopmental outcomes, has not been evaluated. The researchers aimed to investigate the association …
Several studies have investigated the association between asthma exacerbations and exposures to ambient temperature and precipitation. However, limited data exists regarding how extreme events, projected to grow in frequency, intensity, and duration in the future in response to our changing climate, will impact the risk of hospitalization for asthma. The …
More than half of the US population lives amid potentially dangerous air pollution, with national efforts to improve air quality at risk of being reversed, a new report has warned. A total of 166 million Americans live in areas that have unhealthy levels of of either ozone or particle pollution, …
Baltimore stands apart as the American big city with the most deaths caused by air pollution, and Curtis Bay is its dirtiest community. Several years ago, the air there stood to get even worse when the state approved a permit for a giant incinerator that would burn 4,000 tons of …
Gurgaon: Every year, stubble burning leads to an increase in respiratory diseases in the city in the month of April. According to doctors, asthma and other respiratory diseases are triggered during this time of the year mainly due to the worsening air pollution caused by the illegal practice of burning …
A new study released by researchers has alleged that dangerous toxic chemicals in cosmetics are widely used in salons and beauty parlours despite their attendant health effects in disruption of nervous, respiratory, reproductive systems and lungs, kidney damage and inflammation of the skin and eyes to both salon workers and …
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, to provide concessional LPG connections, is a step in the right direction but much more needs to be done by 2019 and beyond to ensure homes in India cook using modern fuels. This article explores the issues of providing connections, subsidy provisioning and ensuring sustained …
Decreases in ambient air pollution levels over the past 20 years in Southern California were associated with significant reductions in bronchitic symptoms in children with and without asthma, according to a study appearing in the April 12 issue of JAMA. Childhood bronchitic symptoms are significant public and clinical health problems …
Countries with higher male smoking rates such as India and Bangladesh can push up asthma and wheezing cases as a result of more exposure to second-hand smoke. This is what Jayadeep Patra, an epidemiologist at the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, says. In recent …
