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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

Green Car Congress

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. 2018) “The 2016 global and national burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to PM 2.5 Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. million U.S.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. My own media darling of a hand, the iLimb from Ottobock, which I received in 2018, has a fist-shaped power grip, pinching grips, and one very specific mode with thumb on top of index finger for politely handing over a credit card. But there are often better ways.”.