Climate change and environmental pollution from health care present urgent, complex challenges. The US health care sector produces 10% of total US greenhouse gas emissions, which have negative influences on....

The Lancet Countdown and the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that the worst impacts of climate change are and will continue to be felt disproportionately by children. Children....

Climate change has been linked to changes in Atlantic hurricane behavior, making storms more destructive to the built environment and vital infrastructure, more harmful to the physical and mental health....

Introduction Climate change is an increasingly relevant public health issue attracting increasing amounts of attention. Despite family medicine being at the front line for public health, no recent studies have....

“The subject of climatic and environmental changes that result from human activity has been much in the news recently,” Alexander Leaf wrote in the Journal 30 years ago. Threatened by acid....

Health impacts from climate change may include increased morbidity and mortality from worsening cardiopulmonary health, worsening allergies, and greater risk of infectious disease and mental illness, including anxiety, depression, and....

Air pollution is a grave risk to human health that affects nearly everyone in the world and nearly every organ in the body. Fortunately, it is largely a preventable risk.....

As medical professionals navigate busy days in temperature-controlled hospitals and seemingly indestructible health care systems, it can be easy to lose sight of the environmental chaos unfolding outside. The stark....

With a rising death toll from chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) – also known in Central America as Mesoamerican nephropathy – and with greenhouse gas emissions driving global temperature increases,....

The consequences of climate change directly affect human health, the practice of medicine, and the stability of health care systems. This Interactive Perspective elucidates these effects and some approaches to....

The world’s climate crisis has spared no one. Science tells us that the harms of climate change will worsen with time if we fail to take substantial actions now to....

Introduction: Heat stress is an occupational hazard. Exposed workers may suffer heat-related illness, disease exacerbation, increased injuries, and reduced productivity. Response strategies include mitigation policies and preparedness. Methods: Frequency of heat-related illness....

This study reports that heat-related MI risks increased over time, with significantly higher estimates in 2001-2014 compared to 1987-2000 for recurrent and NSTEMI events. Of note, cold-related MI risks nonsignificantly....

Published December 12, 2018 in BMJ By Adam Law, Deidre Duff, Patrick Saunders, John Middleton, & David McCoy BMJ 2018; 363  doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5163 Cite this as: BMJ 2018;363:k5163 Rapid divestment would break our dangerous dependence on this industry The....

It is ironic that climate change, an issue cited by experts as our greatest global health threat, [1] has received relatively little attention in the health professions. In their editorial....

Most physicians accept the general scientific discoveries about anthropogenic global warming and its dangers. Occasional denial by individual physicians of climate change can be readily answered by reference to the....

Last week, the Lancet published its 2017 Countdown report on understanding, preventing, preparing for, and acting on the threat to human health from climate change. It follows a 2015 Commission....

Doctors must respond to protect human health against an unprecedented challenge The current federal political climate in the United States bodes ill for the future of the world’s climate, and....

Nearly 30 years ago, Alexander Leaf, MD, drew a bold analogy. Changes brewing in climate and the environment, he wrote, may be just as harmful to human health as nuclear....

“Health is the human face of climate change” was the motivating idea behind the Climate and Health conference held at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, February 16, 2017.”....