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Individuals with asthma often limit exercise to avoid respiratory symptoms, thereby reducing their exercise capacity and potentially reducing their health-related quality of life.

One of our era's greatest scourges is air pollution, on account not only of its impact on climate change but also its impact on public and individual health due to increasing morbidity and mortality. There are many pollutants that are major factors in disease in humans.

Some two million Argentines live with this endemic parasitic infection

Cardiovascular risk factors are associated with an increased risk of depression in older adults, according to a new study published April 13 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sandra Martín-Peláez of University of Granada, Spain, and colleagues.

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a notable cause of infectious diarrhoea worldwide. In Europe, the estimated number of CDI cases in 2011–12 was 123,997 (95% confidence interval (CI): 61,018–284,857), based on a survey of healthcare-associated infections performed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) [1]. In 2016, as part of C. difficile surveillance performed by ECDC, 556 hospitals from 20 countries covering 24 million patient-days reported 7,711 CDI cases [2].

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted controversies and unknowns about how respiratory pathogens spread between hosts.

Although short-range large-droplet transmission is possible for most respiratory infectious agents, deciding on whether the same agent is also airborne has a potentially huge impact on the types (and costs) of infection control interventions that are required.

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore's (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) have mapped a novel cellular pathway that shows that saturated fat contributes to the development of diabetes and can worsen the disease, underscoring its role in metabolic diseases.

Human-emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are mainly from breath and the skin. In this study, we continuously measured VOCs in a stainless-steel environmentally controlled climate chamber (22.5 m3, air change rate at 3.2 h–1) occupied by four seated human volunteers using proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Experiments with human whole body, breath-only, and dermal-only emissions were performed under ozone-free and ozone-present conditions.

The potential health impact of ambient ozone and PM2.5 concentrations modulated by climate change over the United States is investigated using combined atmospheric and health modeling.