asthma

Sound of Ideas

Reporting focuses on connection between asthma rates and redlining

Leigh Barr

The intersection of asthma and redlining was part of Ideastream's Connecting the Dots reporting series.

Environment & Energy

Cleveland, Canton receive funding for air quality projects to study barriers for asthma management

Zaria Johnson

The U.S. Environmental Protection agency awarded $1.7 million in grants Friday to fund air quality monitoring projects in Cleveland, Canton, Columbus and Cincinnati.

Cayden Dillon, age 7, sits on the wooden steps of his Slavic Village home.

Government & Politics

Redlining is affecting Northeast Ohio's children's ability to breathe. Here's what we can do

Several studies have drawn a connection between living in neighborhoods that were subject to redlining, the historic discriminatory mortgage lending practices instituted in the 1930s, and an increased likelihood that a resident will suffer from asthma today. Experts say the historic systems and structures which pushed many African Americans into redlined communities affect many Cleveland and Akron residents who live in the Ohio Valley Asthma Belt today.

Telephone poles, signs, and various buildings line a street with machinery and a factory in the background.

Environment & Energy

In Beaver County, a mix of hope and fear over startup of Shell's ethane cracker

Reid Frazier

The plant will turn natural gas produced from fracking to lentil-sized pieces of plastic.

Health

Cleveland Clinic Researcher Discovers Asthma's Silver Lining

Jeff St. Clair

Nearly 25 million Americans -- about 8 percent of the population -- have asthma. It effects more than one million Ohioans.While people suffering from…

Environment & Energy

Study on Ohio Asthma Attacks Prompts Call to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Andy Chow

Children in Ohio suffered about 30,000 asthma attacks this summer, according to environmental researchers. Advocates are using the study to call for…