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Study Links Fracking to Asthma Attacks

Lorraine Chow        EcoWatch       July 20, 2016
Another study has further cemented how fracking can be a human health hazard. People who live close to fracking wells have a higher risk of asthma attacks among asthma patients, according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study.
The paper, published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, focused on Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, one of the country’s most active and notorious fracking regions. In the years between …

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Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms

GreenMedinfo.com     January 4, 2016
The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater.
A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, “Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water,” is the first study of its kind to confirm widely held suspicions concerning the carcinogenicity of fracking pollution.
The new collaborative study was conducted by …

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Toxins found in fracking fluids and wastewater, study shows

Michael Greenwood            Yale News         January 6, 2016
In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the majority had undetermined toxicity due to insufficient information.

Further exposure and epidemiological studies are urgently …

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Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health    October 12, 2015

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS INCREASED RISK OF ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES CLOSER TO ACTIVE UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS WELLS
Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and for having high-risk pregnancies, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
The findings, published online last week in the journal Epidemiology, shed light on some …

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PA Study Links Fracking to Health Hazards in Fetuses, Infants, and Young Childre

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Ocean City, NJ – June 15, 2015 – In one of the first studies of its kind, Joseph J. Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project found disturbing links between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and health effects in children younger than five years old.
In the report “Health Hazards to Fetuses, Infants, and Young Children in Heavily-fracked Areas of Pennsylvania,” funded by the Pittsburgh Foundation, Mangano explains that as a relatively new technology in the landscape of natural …

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PA Studies Link Fracking with Health Problems

 
DON SAPATKIN         Phila Inquirer        July 15, 2015
For all the talk about what hydraulic fracking might mean for human health, there has been little scientific evidence. That is slowly starting to change.
Research released Wednesday from the University of Pennsylvania found that as more wells were drilled in Northeastern Pennsylvania, hospital admission rates for cardiovascular events rose in the same areas.
A study last month from the University of Pittsburgh linked how far …

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Lower Birth Weight Associated with Proximity of Mother’s Home to Gas Wells

PITTSBURGH, June 3, 2015 – Pregnant women living close to a high density of natural gas wells drilled with hydraulic fracturing were more likely to have babies with lower birth weights than women living farther from such wells, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis of southwestern Pennsylvania birth records.
The finding does not prove that the proximity to the wells caused the lower birth weights, but it is a concerning association that warrants further investigation, the …

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Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

NPR     May 15, 2013
Click here to listen to NPR’s audio version of this story.
Kay Allen had just started work, and everything seemed quiet at the Cornerstone Care community health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. But things didn’t stay quiet for long.
“All the girls, they were yelling at me in the back, ‘You gotta come out here quick. You gotta come out here quick,’ ” said Allen, 59, a nurse from Weirton, W.Va.
Allen rushed out front and knew …

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PA House Bill Seeks More Drilling Health Oversight

Robert Swift          Pittsburgh Post-Gazette    July 5, 2013
HARRISBURG – A bill giving state officials a greater role in determining the impact of Marcellus Shale drilling on human health was introduced recently by a Democratic lawmaker active on environmental issues.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Greg Vitali, D-166, Havertown, would direct the state Health Department to establish a surveillance system to collect and analyze data and do a long-term study on the health impact. It would …

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Geisinger $23.7M Shy of Funds for Fracking Study

Ashley Wislock         The Daily Item      June 27, 2013
DANVILLE — A key study on possible health impacts of natural gas drilling by Geisinger Health System, which has captured the attention of some of the nation’s top environmental advocates, is short on funding with Geisinger only raising $1.3 million for the first phase of the study, which is estimated to cost $25 million.
However, Geisinger officials said the study — a collaboration with Guthrie Health in Sayre and Susquehanna Health in …

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