• Inhaling polluted ambient air has many health effects, including childhood onset of asthma,
and onset and progression of atherosclerosis• Vulnerable people can consider using well …

The internal combustion engine is the principal cause of modern air pollution, with
emissions consisting of small particulates (PM 10, PM 2.5, and PM 0.1), oxides of nitrogen …

Sixty years after the Clean Air Act, air pollution is back in the headlines. The government has
been accused of a failure to act while drivers of diesel cars, who were encouraged to believe …

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The linked study by Liu and colleagues (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-075203) sheds new light on
the pervasive harms of air pollution and exemplifies how climate change—and the human …

Respiratory and cardiovascular disease were the two main causes of the 12 000 deaths
estimated to be a result of London's great smog in 1952. 1 We have come a long way since …

I studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1989. Over six years as an
undergraduate I was taught the science of medicine by teachers who were superb scientists …

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The international community working on the prevention and control of non-communicable
diseases (NCDs) has historically focused on four disease groups (diabetes, cancer …