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New Tech Helps Doctors Link Environment to Health Risk [1]

An asthma inhaler rigged to a GPS device? Just as this new medical tech device may help researchers determine the precise triggers of asthma attacks, the emerging field of geomedicine promises to help correlate environmental conditions with health risks.



Christine MacDonald reports for the Washington Post February 6, 2013. [2]
 

Environmental Health [3]
Science [4]
Technology [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: Wash Post [2], 02/06/2013
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