Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "diesel"

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    • Cause-specific mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry 

      Laden, Francine; Hart, Jaime Elizabeth; Smith, Thomas J.; Davis, Mary E.; Garshick, Eric (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2007)
      Background: Occupational and population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution, and specifically particulate matter from vehicle exhausts, to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer. Objectives: ...

    • A New Dawn for Industrial Photosynthesis 

      Robertson, Dan E.; Jacobson, Stuart A.; Morgan, Frederick; Berry, David; Church, George McDonald; Afeyan, Noubar (Springer Netherlands, 2011)
      Several emerging technologies are aiming to meet renewable fuel standards, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and provide viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Direct conversion of solar energy into fungible liquid fuel is ...

    • Perinatal Air Pollutant Exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Children of Nurses’ Health Study II Participants 

      Roberts, Andrea L.; Lyall, Kristen; Hart, Jaime E.; Laden, Francine; Just, Allan C.; Bobb, Jennifer F.; Koenen, Karestan C.; Ascherio, Alberto; Weisskopf, Marc G. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)
      Objective: Air pollution contains many toxicants known to affect neurological function and to have effects on the fetus in utero. Recent studies have reported associations between perinatal exposure to air pollutants and ...