Air pollution doesn’t just increase the risk of dementia — it actually makes Alzheimer’s disease worse,’ Dr. Edward Lee says ...

Ahead of the International Day of Clean Air, here’s a look at what causes air pollution, what it does to people and how the ...

Exposure to high concentrations of air pollution may worsen Alzheimer's disease (AD) by accelerating the buildup of toxic ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It is an unfortunate aspect of the recent past that wildfire smoke pollution has increased. It should be ...

Beyond worsening asthma, the short-term effects of wildfire smoke include bronchitis, reduced lung function and increased ...

Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to ...

Now, viewers are wondering how wildfire smoke pollution compares to pollution from things like cars and heating with wood or oil.

Researchers say that long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution, particularly wildfire smoke, is linked to dementia.

Air quality has taken a serious hit across the United States as a two-fold blow of wildfires in the West and in Canada have sent smoke pouring across large sections of the country — a problem that’s ...

A new report analyzed the lung health, humidity, smoking rates and air quality in all 50 states. Find out how Illinois ranked ...