If left unchecked, climate change will have a significant impact on the respiratory health of many people, including in Europe, says a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the sister organisation of the British newspaper The Economist, published on 7 September.
Commissioned by the pharmaceutical company Chiesi, the paper notes, among other things, that premature deaths due to ozone, a key contributor to respiratory disease morbidity and mortality, have increased by 20% over the...