Indoor mold can cause or exacerbate respiratory problems, says a new report by the US
Institute of Medicine. But its impact on a host of other health problems is much less clear …

Indoor mold can cause or exacerbate respiratory problems, says a new report by the US
Institute of Medicine. But its impact on a host of other health problems is much less clear …

A remarkably consistent association between home dampness and respiratory symptoms
and asthma has been observed in a large number of studies conducted across many …

WHEN NATURE HANDED THEM a destructive hurricane, researchers in New Orleans set
out to learn something useful from the unfortunate event and its subsequent devastation.“We …

In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta set off a cascade
of alarms when an agency task force linked certain toxin-producing molds to a cluster of …

Objectives Many studies have shown consistent associations between evident indoor
dampness or mold and respiratory or allergic health effects, but causal links remain unclear …

The public health risk and economic impact of dampness and mold exposures was
assessed using current asthma as a health endpoint. Individual risk of current asthma from …

Exposure to indoor dampness and mold is associated with numerous adverse respiratory
conditions, including asthma. While no quantitative health-based threshold currently exists …

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences recently completed a
critical review of the scientific literature pertaining to the association of indoor dampness and …

Previous cross-sectional and prevalent case-control studies have suggested increased risk
of asthma in adults related to dampness problems and molds in homes. We conducted a …