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Fracking Linked to Asthma Attacks R
esearchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that individuals living close to a
natural gas hydraulic fracking site have a significantly higher occurrence of asthma attacks. The study exam- ined health records from the Geisinger Health System, a healthcare provider in Pennsylvania, where the fracking industry has experienced incredible growth of more than 9.000 natural gas wells in the past decade. The records of more than 35,000 Geisinger asthma patients between the ages of 5 and 90 were studied between 2005 and 2012. Patients that reported attacks were mapped and studied in relation to the fracking well locations, and the results compared with other patients not reporting attacks in the same year. The research- ers discovered that those that lived in close proximity to multiple or larger active natural gas wells were 1.5 to four times more likely to experience asthma attacks. Brian S. Schwartz, a medical doctor and a professor in the Department of
Environmental Health Services at the Bloomberg School, in Baltimore, Maryland, was the senior author of the study. He states, “We are concerned with the growing number of studies that have observed health effects associated with this industry. We believe it’s time to take a more cautious approach to [fracking] well develop- ment with an eye on environmental and public health impacts.”
Why Some Kids Grow Up with Fewer Allergies A
Teens Hooked on Ear Buds Prone to Tinnitus R
esearchers from the University of São Paulo Medical School, in Brazil,
have found high levels of tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ear, and hear- ing loss in adolescents that use ear bud speakers. They examined the hearing of 170 students between the ages of 11 and 17 and asked them about their ex- periences with tinnitus in the previous year. More than half of the respon- dents had experienced the condition. The prin-
study in the journal Pediatrics, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, has found that the common childhood habits of thumb sucking and nail biting can reduce the risk of adolescent and adult allergies. Researchers followed more than 1,000 individu- als from 5 through 32 years old, monitoring these two habits at ages 5, 7, 9 and 11. The subjects were tested for allergies at 13 using a skin-prick test and again at 32. Of all participants, 31 percent were
frequent thumb suckers and nail biters, and those children had a lower incidence of allergic reactions than the others. These results support a hygiene hypothesis suggesting that early exposure to microbial organisms reduces the risk of developing allergies.
cipal investi- gator for the study, Tanit Ganz Sanchez, an associate professor of otolaryngol- ogy at the medical school, notes that the prevalence of tinnitus among ado- lescents should be viewed as an early warning of a serious hearing loss risk. She says, “If this teenage generation continues to expose themselves to very high noise levels, they’ll probably suffer from hearing loss by the time they’re 30 or 40.”
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