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Public Health Heard on Fresh Air Dave Davies Download Transcript Harsh ambient sound from even small household appliances, such as food processors and hair dryers, can reach levels that lead to permanent damage, hearing specialists say. Our ears are complicated, delicate instruments that largely evolved in far quieter times than the age we currently inhabit

For the podcast associated with this article, please visit https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/pages/Podcasts. Traditionally, we have used age, gender, body mass index, blood pressure, lipids, smoking, and diabetes to assess cardiovascular (CV) risk. However, up until recently, the CV risk provided by environemental hazards such as pollution,1–3 noise,4–6 temperature,7 sleep duration8, and air quality,9,10 among others, have been

“$125,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 2018 and $125,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 2019 are provided solely for the University of Washington school of public health to study the air quality implications of air traffic at the international airport in the state that has the highest total annual

Educating Voters Environmental Priorities Coalition Lobby & Advocacy A series on protecting all communities from dangerous pollution. For 50 years, Washington Environmental Council has set our sights on a cleaner, brighter future and charted a path to get there. In 1988, WEC campaigned to pass Initiative 97 (commonly called the Model Toxics Control Act or