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...vast improvement, thanks to clear-air laws, over the amounts found more than a decade ago. Brook's team studied much higher exposures to particulates, in the order of 150 micrograms per cubic meter, but notes that on many days, cities such as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and Detroit often reach these levels. (The Environmental Protection Agency deems anything between 151 and 200 micrograms per cubic meter to be unhealthy.) But it's hard for the average city denizen to know when particulate levels reach that unhealthy zone. In fact, the 80 volunteers in the study, who breathed ambient city...
...renewable grant of approximately $2 million a year for five years. The new HSPH organization will become MIDAS’s second “Center of Excellence,” and will be devoted both to research and its applications. The first is located at the University of Pittsburgh. “We focus on policy interaction, outreach, education, and research,” said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the HSPH who will be heading the new research center. “Four mandates instead of just one.” The grant allotment will officially...
...results were intriguing enough that Warrior Mind Training has been selected to participate in a University of Pittsburgh study on sleep disruption and fatigue in service members that will kick off early next year...
...These findings provide more evidence that retail clinics are an innovative way of delivering health care," says Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and the lead author of the study. "Retail clinics are more convenient for patients, less costly and provide care that is of equal quality...
...Nepal, India and Pakistan, rely heavily on vultures for a kind of natural maid service: as they clear out dead animals, the risk of disease is also reduced. Dangerous wild-dog packs that feed on dead livestock have also flourished without competition from the birds, says Todd Katzner of Pittsburgh's National Aviary, leading to a new surge of rabies, particularly in Mumbai. "People don't realize what a key role vultures play in the ecosystem," says Aversa. "[They] prevent disease and recycle...