Traffic is the most important source of pollution for health in Barcelona city

It’s the first study in Europe that analyzes mortality impact of 26 chemical substances of pollution.

It’s the first study in Europe that analyzes mortality impact of 26 chemical substances of pollution.

Dr Jordi Sunyer, CREAL’s co-director and Inma Project’s coordinator, writes in Inspira about the way one scientist feels in our society nowadays, what he/she thinks, the role he or she is playing.

We interviewed Dr Philippe Grandjean, one of the most renamed scientist who research chemical pollutants effect on health

May has a special meaning for Fundació Roger Torné, not only because it is our anniversary as organization (it was created on May 22nd 1984) but because the first Tuesday on this month has been established as World Day of Asthma, all over the world.

This editorial gives also its name to the Children’s Health and Environment Guide which will be published next May 3rd, World Day of Asthma.

Like many health professionals all over Spain, For Fathers and Mothers medical staff took part in the conferences that were held in CosmoCaixa last November.

Jordi Sunyer, Scientific Director during the Conferences, tackled the key subject: children’s health and global warming.

During his lecture, Dr Hayes outlined the existence of an important net of interrelations among global warming, human behavior and different ways of life when explaining the factors that have an influence on diseases transmitted by vectors.

Bart Ostro took part in the conferences on Global Warming and Children’s Health. This brief interview synthesizes the main points of the said lecture.

In the “Global warming and children’s health” conferences several experts have analyzed global warming consequences on children’s health.