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• 1 in 5 Patients on Kidney Dialysis Say No to COVID-19 Vaccine: Study

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• 9/11 First Responders Face Higher Cancer Risk 20 Years Later

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• 9/11 First Responders Have Higher Odds for Alzheimer's: Study

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• 99% of Planet's Population Breathes Dirty Air: WHO

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• A High-Tech Pointer to Pollutants That Trigger Asthma in Kids

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• Across the U.S., Black Americans Breathe in Dirtier Air

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• Air and Noise Pollution May Make You Vulnerable to Heart Failure

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• Air Pollutants, Metals Are Reaching The Placenta, Study Finds

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• Air Pollution Can Harm Kids' Hearts for a Lifetime

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• Air Pollution Linked to 6 Million Premature Births in 1 Year

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• Air Pollution May Harm Older Women's Brains

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• Air Pollution Takes a Toll on Your Kidneys

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• Air Pollution Tied to Asthma in Young Kids

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• As Pandemic Cut Air Pollution, Heart Attacks Declined

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• As Pandemic Leads to Clearer Skies, Solar Energy Output Rises

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• Asthma Sufferers Win When Coal Plants Shut Down

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• Autopsies Show Microplastics in All Major Human Organs

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• Bedroom Air Filters May Help Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier

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• Biden Administration Moves to Cut Methane Emissions That Threaten Climate, Health

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• Biden Administration Says California Can Set Tough Auto Emission Standards Again

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• Biden Announces New Lung Health Program for U.S. Veterans

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• Brazil Study Shows Climate Change's Deadly Impact on Kidneys

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• Breathing Dirty Air Could Raise a Child's Risk for Adult Mental Illness

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• Breathing Dirty Air Could Raise Your Odds for Rheumatoid Arthritis

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• Cleaner Air Could Mean Healthier Brains for Older Women

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• Cleaning Up the Air Could Help Prevent Alzheimer's

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• Climate Change, Smog Could Mean More Preemie Babies: Study

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• Coffee Is Kind to Your Kidneys

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• Coming This Way: Huge Saharan Dust Plume Will Affect Americans' Health

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• Common Gout Drug Is Safe in Patients With Kidney Issues

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• Companion Drug Might Help Prevent Kidney Complications of Lupus

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• Condition Affecting Kids With COVID-19 Remains Very Rare, Heart Group Says

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• Could Air Pollution Help Trigger Depression in Teens?

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• Could Dirty Air Help Speed Alzheimer's?

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• Could Pollution Help Decide Your Baby's Sex?

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• COVID May Worsen Kidney Injury, Study Finds

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• COVID-19 Can Cause Scarring of Kidneys: Study

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• COVID-19 Takes Heavy Toll on Kidneys

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• Cutting Pollution From Power Plants, Transport Could Save 50,000 U.S. Lives Each Year

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• Cycling During Dialysis? It Might Help Patients

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• Dialysis Patients Have Weaker Response to COVID Vaccine: Study

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• Dirtier Air May Bring More COVID-19 Deaths

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• Dirty Air Can Worsen COVID Outcomes

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• Dirty Air Could Raise COVID Risks for People With Asthma, COPD

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• Dirty Air Endangers Homeless People: Study

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• Dirty Air in Pregnancy Might Raise Baby's Obesity Risk

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• Dirty Air Might Raise Your Odds for Dementia

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• Dirty Air, Higher Dementia Risk?

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• Dirty City Air Killed More Than 1.8 Million People Globally in 2019

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• Dirty City Air Might Raise MS Risk

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• Do You Live in One of America's Unhealthiest Cities for Polluted Air?

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• Doctors' Choice of Anesthesia Could Help Curb Climate Change

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• Doctors Transplant Gene-Modified Pig Kidneys Into Brain-Dead Patient

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• Double Trouble: Wildfire Smoke Could Boost Odds for COVID's Spread

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• Double Trouble: Wildfires Can Raise COVID Risks

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• Drivers May Be Inhaling Dangerous Carcinogens Inside Their Cars

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• Early Dialysis Doesn't Improve Outcomes With Acute Kidney Failure

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• Early On, Many Seniors Were Unfazed by Coronavirus Warnings, Study Finds

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• Energy Drink Habit Led to Heart Failure in a Young Man

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• EPA to Sharply Limit Refrigerant Production in New Climate Rule

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• Even a Little Lead in Drinking Water Can Harm People With Kidney Disease

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• Even in Dirty Air, Working Out Can Help Cut Risk of High Blood Pressure

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• Even Low Levels of Air Pollution Harm Heart, Lungs

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• Even Small Reductions in Air Pollution Help The Heart

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• Failing Kidneys Could Bring Higher Dementia Risk

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• Fetal Exposure to Ultra-Fine Air Pollution Could Raise Asthma Risks

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• Fireworks Are Bad News for Your Lungs

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• Flu Shot Might Help Ward Off Severe COVID

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• Greenhouse Gases Bad for Your Brain

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• Harmful Flame Retardants Detected in College-Classroom Dust

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• High Blood Pressure May Affect More Pregnant Women Than Thought: Study

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• Hot Asphalt Releases a Lot of Pollution Into the Air

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• If Mom-to-Be Lives Near Airport, Odds for Preemie Birth Rise

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• Inhaled Pollutants Go Directly From Lungs to Brain: Study

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• Innovative Kidney Donor 'Voucher' System Is Saving Lives

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• Kidney Damage Another Consequence of 'Long COVID,' Study Finds

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• Kidney Failure Often a COVID-19 Complication

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• Kidney Transplant Safe When Organ Donor Has COVID: Study

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• Kidney Trouble Greatly Raises Odds for Fatal COVID-19

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• Kidneys Might Affect Mental Status As You Age

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• L.A.'s Oil Wells Could Be Harming Citizens' Health

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• Leaded Gas, Banned Decades Ago, Might Still Harm People Today

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• Life-Saving Organ Transplants Plummet During COVID-19 Crisis

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• Live Near a 'Superfund' Site? Your Life Span Might Be Shorter

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• Lockdowns' Benefits for Air Quality Weren't as Big as Thought: Study

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• Lockdowns Cut Air Pollution, But Poorer Neighborhoods Benefited Less

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• Many 'High Priority' Patients Aren't Getting Put on Kidney Transplant Lists

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• Many Kidney Failure Patients Regret Starting Dialysis

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• Many Recovering COVID Patients Show Signs of Long-Term Organ Damage

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• Meat Production Is Dirtying the Air You Breathe

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• Medicare's Penalties for Poor-Quality Dialysis Centers Aren't Helping: Study

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• Most Kidney Patients OK With Getting Text Reminders on Care

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• Most of Restaurant Menu Must Be Vegetarian Before Meat Eaters Make the Switch

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• New Approach Allows Safe Transplant of Kidneys Tainted by Hepatitis C

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• Nitrogen Dioxide, a Car Exhaust Pollutant, Is Raising Death Rates: Study

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• NYC's Ban on Heating Oil Helped Clean the Air

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• Pandemic Has Cut Global Carbon Emissions by 17%

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• Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Often Overlooked for Life-Saving Kidney Transplants

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• Polluted Air Keeps Butterflies, Bees From Pollinating: Study

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• Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2019

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• Pregnancy Raises the Risk for Kidney Stones

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• Replace That Old Carpet to Shield Your Kids From Toxins

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• Saline IV Drip Just as Good as Pricier Options in Hospital ICUs: Study

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• Sharp Spike Seen in Air Pollution Levels in Recent Years

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• Smog Could Reduce Exercise's Benefit to Your Brain

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• Smog Harms Women's Brains, But One Food May Help Buffer the Damage

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• Smog Might Damage Your Sense of Smell

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• Smoggy Air Might Help Spur Sinusitis

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• Smoggy Air Might Raise Black Women's Odds for Fibroids

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• Smoggy Day? Exercise Still the Healthy Choice, Study Finds

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• Social Media Messages Can Lower People's Meat Intake

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• Some Types of Air Pollution Are Even Worse for Your Health

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• Stopping Common Heart Meds Could Be Risky for Kidney Patients

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• Study Casts Doubt on 'Early Warning' System for Kidney Patients

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• Take Steps to Protect Your Kidneys

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• Thinking of Donating a Kidney? New Data Shows It's Safe

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• Too Many Sugary Sodas Might Harm Your Kidneys

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• Toxic Lead Fallout From Notre Dame Fire May Be Worse Than Thought

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• Toxins in Wildfire Smoke May Make Their Way Into Brain

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• Tree Rings Show Hurricanes Becoming Wetter, Longer, More Dangerous

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• Trouble Concentrating at Work? Your Office Air May Be to Blame

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• Type 2 Diabetes in Teens Can Bring Dangerous Complications in 20s

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• U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study

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• U.S. Kidney Transplant Outcomes Are Improving

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• Urban Air Pollution Drives Millions of Cases of Asthma in Kids

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• Vegetarian Diet Could Help Fight Off Disease: Study

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• Weekly Injected Drug Could Boost Outcomes for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

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• Weight Loss Can Help Cut Lung Risks in 9/11 First Responders

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• West Coast Wildfires, COVID a Double Whammy to Lung Health

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• Western Wildfires Are Making Easterners Sick: U.S. Study

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• Western Wildfires Fueling Air Pollution During Summer Months

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• What Happens to Your Kidneys as You Age?

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• What If NYC's Cleaner Pandemic-Era Air Continued?

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• When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier

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• When Kidney Transplant Fails, Trying Again Is Best Option: Study

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• Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk

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• Wildfire Smoke Can Send Kids With Asthma to the ER

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• Wildfire Smoke Can Trigger Eczema, Study Finds

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• Wildfire Smoke Causes Rapid Damage to Your Health: Study

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• Wildfire Smoke Is Especially Toxic to Lungs, Study Shows

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• Wildfires Are Changing the Seasonal Air Quality of the U.S. West

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• Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year

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• Wildfires Plus Heat Make Breathing Dangerous in America's West

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• Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last?

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• With Hurricane Season Here, Watch Out for One Carbon Monoxide Danger

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• Wood-Fired Cooking a Cause of Lung Illness in Developing World

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• Workouts Boost Health of People With Kidney Disease

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• You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer

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• Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet