Mount Sinai Beth Israel began closing its doors Tuesday after a New York appeals court rejected a community group’s bid to keep it open. The ruling, handed down by the Appellate Division of the ...

“In general, both spitting and swallowing are safe to do,” Parsons echoed. “Swallowing is harmless, because the stomach acid ...

P lenty of research shows that respiratory distress and heart attacks spike in the event of smoke exposure; acute impacts of ...

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows American adults are eating less fast food. Gena Hamshaw, a ...

A study published in Epidemiology in late May demonstrated that fine particulate matter in wildfire smoke represents a danger to human health considerably longer than a couple of days as previously ...

Item 1 of 4 A general view of St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo ...

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

Smoke from massive wildfires burning in Canada has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is blowing over the UK. Only a little smoke survived the journey, said Georgie Myers with the UK’s Met Office.

MILAN (AP) — Sicily’s Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometers (miles) into the air, but officials said the activity ...

Currently, smoke from the wildfires in Canada is reaching the U.S. because of strong upper-level winds pushing the smoke southward, which is carrying the smoke over the border into the U.S ...

Recent studies say PM2.5 exposure can cause health issues for up to 3 months after breathing it in. Dr. Yaguang Wei from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine said even small fires lasting a few days ...

Canadian wildfire smoke expected to drift into US and ... medicine at Mount Sinai’s Icahn ... or no rain around and the sun is out over the weekend. So the smoke will be more noticeable ...