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Kids who breathe polluted air have higher rates of mental illness
2016-06-15 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: We know air pollution is linked to heart disease and puts people at risk for stroke. Now a new study reveals that even a small rise in air pollution is associated with a significant rise in mental illness in young people, as reported in The Guardian. Researchers in Sweden tracked more than 500,000 children under the age of 18 for the study. They matched air pollution concentrations with mental-illness medication dispensed for kids, ranging from sleeping pills to antipsychotics. Places with elevated...
Air Pollution Could Be Hurting Your Childs Mental Health
2016-06-14 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A new study suggests that exposure to air pollution may be linked to increased mental illnesses among children. The research, which was published in the journal BMJ Open, found that even small increases in air pollution exposure were associated with an increase in psychiatric problems. In the study, researchers from Ume University in Sweden examined the pollution exposure of more than 500,000 young people in Sweden aged below 18 and made a comparison against records of medicines prescribed...
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Air pollution linked to increased mental illness in children
2016-06-13 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A major new study has linked air pollution to increased mental illness in children, even at low levels of pollution. The new research found that relatively small increases in air pollution were associated with a significant increase in treated psychiatric problems. It is the first study to establish the link but is consistent with a growing body of evidence that air pollution can affect mental and cognitive health and that children are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality. The research,...
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50 Years of Sex Changes, Mental Disorders, and Too Many Suicides
2016-05-25 18:58:41| Commercial Real Estate Loans & Investment Sales
Dateline Oct 4, 1966: The New York Daily News gossip column reported a girl was making the rounds in Manhattan clubs who admitted to being a man in 1965. She had undergone a sex-change operation in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins gender clinic. By 1979, thirteen years later, enough gender surgeries had been performed to…
VIDEO: Mental health issues 'cost Australia $8bn'
2016-03-31 00:41:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The country's Institute of Health and Welfare says absenteeism and reduced productivity from unwell workers harms business.
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