Air pollution not only raises the risk of lung cancer, stroke and respiratory diseases, but it is also bad for your bones, a new study suggests. The study, done in India, looked at more than 3,700 people from 28 villages outside the city of Hyderabad.
Work led by Orthopaedic Research Society members Gurpreet Baht and Benjamin Alman at Duke University has shown that exposure of old mice to circulation of young mice leads to improvements in bone healing.