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Airplane noise is bad for your health
Read more: Airplane noise is bad for your healthIn my opinion, the title of this article, “Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your Health” should have read “Aircraft Noise Is Bad for Your Health,” in light of the strong research that links noise, including aircraft noise, to adverse mental and physical health effects.
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Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your Health
Read more: Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your HealthResearchers find that exposure to aircraft noise is tied to a higher body mass index, which can increase risk of heart attack and stroke
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Why insomnia provokes performance anxiety that keeps you awake
Read more: Why insomnia provokes performance anxiety that keeps you awakeAnxiety about sleep can be self-perpetuating. When the effort to sleep backfires, we feel even more desperate, resulting in more arousal.
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The plastics we breathe
Read more: The plastics we breatheEvery time you take a breath, you could be inhaling microplastics. See how tiny and dangerously invasive they can be.
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Noise Hurts Much More than Our Ears
Read more: Noise Hurts Much More than Our EarsExperts describe ways to turn down the volume, from earbuds to smartphone apps that detect harmful noise levels
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Why are so many young people getting cancer?
Read more: Why are so many young people getting cancer?Cancer used to be a disease of the old. Not anymore.
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Irregular sleep and late bedtimes associated with worse grades for high school students
Read more: Irregular sleep and late bedtimes associated with worse grades for high school studentsNIH-funded study also links later bed and wake times with school conduct problems.
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Study finds 3 big risk factors for dementia
Read more: Study finds 3 big risk factors for dementiaDiabetes, air pollution and alcohol consumption could be the biggest risk factors for dementia, a study has found.
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The key to a longer life: high unemployment
Read more: The key to a longer life: high unemploymentNew research confirms it: The worse the economy gets, the longer we live. But why?
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Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality
Read more: Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air qualityA Report finds that 1 in 4 people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air as rising temperatures and bigger fires create a “climate penalty.”