Exposures and Susceptibilities
By Jeffry Fawcett, March 28, 2006 in the Editorials blog
I’m always attracted to issues in environmental health, not least because ecology was my first academic love. And so two news items caught my eye last week.
The first was a study by researchers at USC that found fine particulate air pollution is much more damaging than previously thought, causing chronic illness like heart disease and diabetes at 4 times the rate previously thought. [Read more…]