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Human Centric Lighting – The New X Factor?

December 12th, 2018

A Nobel Prize should be awarded to those who discover the key to healthy artificial lighting.

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Outdoor Artificial Nighttime Light and Use of Hypnotic Medications in Older Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study

December 5th, 2018

The inappropriate or excessive use of outdoor artificial nighttime light, referred to as light pollution, has emerged as a novel environmental issue linked to human health.

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Artificial Lighting at Night in Estuaries—Implications from Individuals to Ecosystems

November 21st, 2018

Artificial lighting at night (ALAN) alters natural patterns of light and darkness by introducing light that varies in intensity and spectral composition during typically dark periods (Gaston et al. 2013). Use of, and technological advances in, electric lighting have rapidly expanded since the incandescent lightbulbs of the early 1900s; ALAN now generates levels of intensity visible in satellite imagery of the Earth’s surface at night. Life has evolved under dynamic environmental conditions, but changes to the daily and seasonal light regimes associated with ALAN present a truly novel ecological stressor.

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Color-selective photophobia in ictal vs interictal migraineurs and in healthy controls

October 11th, 2018

Aversion to light is common among migraineurs undergoing acute attacks. Using psychophysical assessments in patients with episodic migraine, we reported that white, blue, amber, and red lights exacerbate migraine headache in a significantly larger percentage of patients and to a greater extent compared with green light.

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Halt Blue-Rich White Light Pollution

June 14th, 2018

Please reinstate the All Parliamentary Lighting Group and urgently create a National Light Policy which properly addresses the harmful effects of modern lighting technology on humans, wildlife, road safety and sky glow.

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Halogen and CFLs to be banned in Europe

April 30th, 2018

DRAFT European regulations will see the effective banning of both tungsten halogen and compact fluorescent as light sources by 2020.

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EU rule could leave theatres dark

April 29th, 2018

The president of the Association of Lighting Directors warns that a new directive could make all existing equipment obsolete.

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Study links LED streetlights to breast and prostate cancer

April 27th, 2018

BLUE LIGHT from LED street lights is linked to a ‘significant increase’ in the risk of breast and prostate cancer, new research has concluded.

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New LED streetlights may double cancer risk, new research warns

April 26th, 2018

Britain’s new generation of street lights risk dramatically increasing rates of breast and prostate cancer, according to a new study.

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Evaluating the Association between Artificial Light-at-Night Exposure and Breast and Prostate Cancer Risk in Spain (MCC-Spain Study)

April 23rd, 2018

In 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that shift work that involves circadian disruption is “probably carcinogenic to humans”

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