Link Between Women’s Adult-Onset Asthma and Heart Disease
According to this report in the American Journal of Cardiology, the same doesn’t hold true for men and adult-onset asthma, or for anyone of either gender with child-onset asthma.
(As if the whole not-breathing part weren’t bad enough.)
Yet Another Study Linking Early Preventative Steroids to Long-Term Asthma Control
This one focused on adults and children with mild, persistent asthma. Predictably, the study participants used the inhaled corticosteroids of the drug company that funded the research.
In non-asthma health news,
Cases of Rare Tuberculosis Traced to Mexican Cheese
If you live in Southern California and eat unpasteurized cheese like queso fresco, I’d read this one if I were you. This form of TB doesn’t spread easily with human-to-human contact, but health experts urge caution over dairy products.
Advocacy Group Asks FDA to Ban 8 Food Colorings Because of ADHD in Kids
It’s not a new dispute between the FDA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, but this time the group wants both a warning label on food that contains the dyes right now and, ultimately, an outright ban. The dyes in question:
Yellow 5 and 6
Red 3 and 40
Blue 1 and 2
Green 3
Orange B
Best U.S. Children’s Hospitals
According to the U.S. News and World Report, you’re in luck if you live in Philadelphia, Boston, or Cincinnati. Check out link for the full list or to search through the rankings by specialty.
Everyone’s Favorite Science Channel Has a New 24-Hour Green Network
Discovery Channel’s Planet Green is all-eco, all the time. It features, among other envirocelebs, Entourage’s Adrien Grenier. This is also where Emeril went when the Food Network showed him the door, and he’ll be cooking with an emphasis on organic and sustainable ingredients. I’ll definitely watch, even if, in the past, he’s never known when to stop adding a deep-fried condiment or ten.
And I Discuss the New White House Global Warming Report
Over on Celsias,
The Bush administration just released its report on the health effects of manmade global warming last week, and it only took four years and a court order to get it. This compilation of U.S. and international research discusses known global warming threats like rising sea levels eating away at coastlines, but it also highlights the way effects like heat wave deaths will affect poor communities the most.
A little history behind this assessment:
In 1990, a new law started requiring presidents to produce a summary of known information on global climate and the environment, the economy, and public health every four years. Since the last report came during the Clinton presidency in 2000, the Bush administration should have published one in 2004.
When it never came, environmental groups decided to prosecute.
Read the whole article.
