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The Air We Inherit
Air Pollution, Pregnancy, and Autism: What Scientists Are Learning About the Air Children Breathe Before Birth For much of modern medicine, air pollution was treated primarily as a disease of the lungs. Smog irritated ai…
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Before the First Breath: Airway Inflammation as a Driver of Placental and Fetal Immune Programming
A Clinical Perspective in Systems Biology Emerging evidence suggests that the effects of prenatal air pollution are mediated not only through direct d…
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Asthma Awareness Month Has Succeeded, But It Is Time to Redefine What We Are Aware Of
Since its establishment by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Asthma Awareness Month has played a meaningful role in reducing morbidity an…
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Autoimmunity's Hidden Language: Why the Immune System Sometimes Turns Against the Body
New discoveries are revealing that autoimmune diseases may begin long before symptoms appear, through a complex dialogue among genes, proteins, and the immune s…
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Depression’s Hidden Fire
Scientists Are Exploring Whether Inflammation May Be Driving Some Forms of Mental Illness For decades, depression has largely been explained as a disorder of br…
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Breathing the Concrete Jungle: The Hidden Impact of City Life
In postcards and films, the Champs-Élysées represents elegance, tourism, and urban beauty. But beneath the cafés, luxury storefronts, and streams of visitors li…
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Asthma Control: More Than Just “Not Wheezing”
For many people, asthma control means one simple thing: not having symptoms. If there is no wheezing, no coughing, and no need for an inhaler, it is easy to ass…
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The Hidden Air of the Subway: What Paris Metro Dust May Be Doing to the Lungs
Every morning in Paris, millions of people descend into the subway. The experience feels almost geological: warm gusts of air, metallic screeches echoing throug…
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America’s Quiet Pollen Experiment
What the U.S. Should Learn from Japan’s Cedar Allergy Crisis Every spring, millions of Americans experience the familiar rituals of allergy season: yellow polle…
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Japan’s Hay Fever Crisis: How a Postwar Reforestation Plan Triggered a National Allergy Epidemic
Every spring, millions of people in Japan brace themselves for what many describe as a seasonal assault. Drugstores fill with masks and antihistamines. Trains c…
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When a “Panic Attack” Might Start in the Lungs
For decades, panic attacks have largely been viewed through a psychiatric lens. A person suddenly feels unable to breathe, their chest tightens, their heart rac…
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Caffeine, Cigarettes, and a President: The Wild History of Asthma Before Inhalers
The Disease That Medicine Could Hear but Not Explain Asthma has always occupied a strange place in medicine. It is ancient, common and instantly recognizable, y…
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Why Women Are More Vulnerable to Autoimmune Disease
New single-cell research suggests the female immune system may be biologically wired for heightened vigilance, and that protective advantage may also carry hidd…
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