Check out this critical review of the last ten years of research on the health effects of fine particle pollution by two leading scientists — Dr. C. Arden Pope III of Brigham Young University and Dr. Douglas W. Dockery of Harvard School of Public Health.  (more…)

A study quantified the health benefits of moving from current air quality conditions in California to the level of the new 8-hour California ambient air quality standard for ozone, that is, 0.070 ppm. (more…)

This study examined respiratory effects of ozone in 700 infants living in nonsmoking households in southwestern Virginia.  (more…)

Numerous studies have reported positive associations between both ozone and high temperatures on short-term mortality.  (more…)

This time series analysis examined the relation between ozone and daily mortality in Shanghai using four years of data.  (more…)

This study used a case-crossover approach to examine the relationship between various air pollutants and infant mortality in a large city in Taiwan.  (more…)

A very large case-crossover study of Medicare recipients in of 36 U.S. cities evaluated the effect of ozone and PM10 on respiratory hospital admissions over a 13-year period. (more…)

This study examined the associations of ozone with childhood asthma hospitalizations as stratified by socioeconomic status in Seoul, Korea in 2002.  (more…)

Significant lung development occurs after birth.  This study in infant rhesus monkeys tested whether repeated cycles of injury and repair caused by ozone exposure lead to chronic airway disease and decreased lung function by altering normal lung maturation.  (more…)

Researchers compared chest x-rays from children living in heavily polluted southwest Mexico City with children living in a cleaner air region in Tlaxcala, Mexico.  (more…)