2018

RFL Guatemala Announcement 06.05.18

EPA is raising awareness of heart disease and its link to air pollution and other environmental factors as a partner in Million Hearts, a national initiative to prevent heart attacks and strokes.Learn more at https://www.epa.gov/air-research/healthy-heart-toolkit-and-research.

An outbreak of Ebola is occurring in the Bikoro area, Equateur province in the northwest corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Cases have also been found in nearby Iboko and the large city of Mbandaka.Travelers could be infected if they come into contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids.Travelers should […]

By: National Institute of Environmental Health ServicesResearchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) showed that chronic liver inflammation can promote cancer by suppressing one of the body’s natural mechanisms to fight cancer development. The study, funded in part by the Superfund Research Program (SRP), explains the success of some types of cancer immunotherapy […]

By: Musa Lewis Mathunjwa, Stuart Semple, and C. Du PreezThe prevalence of obesity and associated cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is increasing among Black African women and requires urgent attention in the form of preventive strategies. To date, there is limited scientific evidence highlighting the efficacy of Tae-bo as an intervention for reducing weight and CMD risk […]

By: United States Environmental Protection AgencyMany residents of southeast Wyandotte County, Kansas, live in the Turner, Argentine and Armourdale neighborhoods, an area that has community and environmental stakeholders interested in learning more about local air pollution from multiple transportation sources. Diesel trucking fleets, two railyards, including a rail maintenance facility, major highways, and light industry […]

By: United States Environmental Protection AgencyEvery day, millions of Americans that live, work, and go to school near a major roadway or train, bus, or railyard station, come into contact with traffic-related air pollution. Exposure to emissions from cars and trucks can have negative effects on health. That’s why EPA is developing strategies to reduce […]

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has launched an interactive website that provides statistics and trends of the opioid epidemic. View the IDPH Opioid Data Dashboard at https://idph.illinois.gov/OpioidDataDashboard/.