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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Environment and Health

Environment and Health current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Associations of fire smoke and other pollutants with incident rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease

Bioethics for the planet

Climate change and brain health: a conference report

Climate change and workplace heat stress: technical report and guidance (WHO report)

Climate conditions, weather changes, and air pollutants and atopic dermatitis: a meta-analysis

The climate crisis in clinical practice: addressing air pollution, heat, and microplastics

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires from January 5 to February 1, 2025

“Forever chemicals” - cutaneous exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): cause for concern?

Geographic clustering of systemic sclerosis in areas of environmental pollution

Heatwaves: how air pollution is worsening effects on health

Impact of climate change and extreme temperature on the incidence of infectious disease among children and adolescents in China: a nationwide case-crossover study with over 8.7 million cases, 2008-2019

Impact of micro- and nanoplastics on gastrointestinal diseases: recent advances

Increases in suicides and overdoses during the 2023 wildfires in Maui, Hawaiʻi

The influence of the built environment and perceived neighborhood on physical frailty and sarcopenia in older adults: a systematic review

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Medical education competency frameworks for climate and planetary health: a scoping review

Modelling the relationship between extreme temperature metrics and cardiovascular disease burden in India: insights from a multi-state study on climate change challenges for 2011–2019

Navigating the storm: ethical consideration to climate justice and sustainable health equity in Africa

Operating room personnel perspectives on sustainable practices in the operative environment

Too hot and too humid in the Caribbean: impacts of extreme heat events and non-accidental mortality in the tropical island of Puerto Rico (2015-2020)

Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality

Unveiling complexity in blue spaces and life expectancy

Why are plastic syringes not being recycled?

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Oct); Arthritis & Rheumatology (Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jul); BMJ (Sep); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Environmental Research (Sep); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Sep); JAMA (Sep); JAMA Dermatology (Aug); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Sep-Oct in progress); Journal of Infection (Aug); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Aug); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); Lancet (Sep-Oct); Lancet Neurology (Oct); Nature (Aug); Nature Climate Change (Aug); NEJM (Aug); WHO website (Aug)

September 2025

Climate change and human health — a research agenda for action

Climate change, emissions of volatile anesthetics, and policy making: the case of desflurane

Climate change, marine pathogens, and human health

Climate crossroads: how global warming drives coronavirus emergence, the long COVID crisis of tomorrow, and AI’s role in navigating our future

Climatic drivers of infectious diarrheal disease epidemics in China

Conceptual frameworks, competencies, contents and teaching methods in planetary health education for health students and professionals: a global systematic scoping review

Cost-effective strategies for reducing carbon emissions in plastic surgery

Elevated toxic element emissions from popular disposable e-cigarettes: sources, life cycle, and health risks

Emergency Medical Services response to wildfires from a public health perspective: a systematic review

Environmental noise in Europe 2025 (European Environment Agency report)

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care: consensus statement on the prehospital management of exertional heat illness

How climate change is threatening Africa by supercharging Rift Valley fever

Impact of marine microplastics on neurologic and functional disabilities: a population-level study

Implementation of a heat alert system for clinical staff in an ambulatory setting: a pilot project

The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems

Need for planetary health perspective in guidance for complex interventions for climate and health

Occupational heat-related illness

Plant-based and sustainable diet: a systematic review of its impact on obesity

Preemptive hospital evacuation during the 2021 European floods

Reducing inhaler-related greenhouse gas emissions

Temperature extremes, climate change and multimorbidity: a rapid scoping review

Sources

ACS Central Science (Jun); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun-Jul); Burns (Aug); Emergency Medicine Journal (Jun); European Environment Agency website (Jun); European Journal of Neurology (May); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); JAMA (Jun-Jul); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Jul-Aug); Journal of Infection (Jul); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Aug); Lancet, The (Jul); NEJM (Jul); Obesity Reviews (Jun)

July 2025

Associations between ambient air pollution and five common vision-threatening ocular diseases in middle-aged and older adults: a large prospective cohort study

Associations between main ambient air pollutants and ischaemic heart disease risk in the UK biobank: a prospective cohort study

Bilosomes as a novel ocular drug delivery system: assessing the material attributes, process parameters, and quality attributes

Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Climate disaster effects on acute health care: a case study and model of the 2021 heatwave in British Columbia, Canada

Climate therapy: sustainability solutions for breast cancer care in the Anthropocene era

Considerations for improving the relevance, use, and robustness of projections of the health risks of climate change

The effect of air pollution exposure on menstrual cycle health using self-reported data from a mobile health app: a prospective, observational study

Extreme heat and hospitalization among older persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias

Gardening initiatives as an approach to cancer prevention for children and youth

Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Health care system adaptation and resilience during the wildfire crisis

Making the invisible visible: the impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior and welfare

Mosquito and global dengue cases in a warming world

Particulate matter, socioeconomic status, and cognitive function among older adults in China

Pollution, stress response, and obesity: a systematic review

Promoting health through climate change mitigation in Europe

Setting priorities for climate and health adaptation (BMJ analysis)

A systematic review of sustainability practices in plastic surgery

Towards a greener, healthier Paris

Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study

Sources

American Journal of Ophthalmology (Jun); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Apr); BMJ, The (May); BMJ Global Health (May); Clinical Breast Cancer (Apr); The Conversation website (Mar); Experimental Eye Research (Jun); JAMA (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Mar); Lancet, The (Apr); Lancet Planetary Health, The (Apr-May); LSE Grantham Research Institute website (Feb); Obesity Reviews (May); Public Health (May)

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