Environmental Lung Disease (RFG2) News

The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (PDEQ), in collaboration with faculty from the Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, recently launched a network to monitor air quality at several schools in the county.

A common antibiotic designed to help kids with breathing problems isn’t performing as expected. University of Arizona pediatrics professor Fernando Martinez discusses why certain medications are not effective for treating asthma, and could lead to increased hospital stays instead.

Researchers have long sought to discover why babies who weigh less than expected at birth, a condition known as small for gestational age, or SGA, are at higher risk for heart, lung and metabolic diseases as adults. Now, using blood samples collected over decades, a team led by University of Arizona researchers may have identified an explanation.

High heat and strong winds can lead to bad allergies, and sicknesses. Expert Tara Carr explains what you can do to avoid these symptoms.

As the University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC) begins its thirty-sixth year, it returns to the stewardship of the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, under the leadership of Xinxin Ding, PhD, department head of Pharmacology and Toxicology. With the recent renewal of this grant, the center received $15M over the next five years to continue addressing the unique human health risks encountered in the US Southwest, where distinct geological and climatic attributes affect human health and its exposure to a variety of toxicants, especially arsenic.

The University of Arizona has received a five-year federal grant of $14.8 million to help understand and mitigate health threats of dust from mine tailings and associated hazardous fungal spores, specifically within mining communities.

The University of Arizona Superfund Research Center received a $14.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to help understand and mitigate health threats from metalloid-contaminated dust from mine tailings and associated hazardous fungal spores, specifically within mining communities.

A study led by Dr. Fernando Martinez at the University of Arizona, is testing whether the capsules might do something even more remarkable: prevent wheezing before it ever starts. The concept is that early exposure to the bacterial fragments may teach the immune system to respond appropriately to triggers of wheezing and airway inflammation. The goal is to keep asthma from developing later on.

A new study will investigate whether levels of the lung protein CC16 in childhood can predict risk of early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later in life.

In fact, an Amish community in northern Indiana is considered one of the least-allergic populations ever measured in the developed world.