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A LightAware Ambassador summarised how the choice of outdoor and interior LED and modern fluorescent lighting affects people’s health leading sufferers to be excluded from normal social interaction and opportunities.
Read More: LightAware gives talk at London ‘Light Meeting’ →
If you have bipolar disorder, depression or trouble sleeping, it may help to wear amber-tinted glasses at night, new research suggests.
Read More: Blue-blocking glasses may help treat bipolar disorder →
Trafford council’s u-turn came after Altrincham resident Simon Nicholas claimed the new eco-friendly lights could damage the brains of people living nearby.
Read More: ‘UFO’ street-light plan switched off by one-man army →
The Canadian government greeted 2014 with the first tier of its new energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs,1 which will effectively ban incandescent light bulbs by next year.2 But efficient lighting can have its own drawbacks. For instance, although devoid of the mercury used in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), some white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) emit a wavelength of light associated with adverse human health effects. In this issue of EHP, researchers study retinal changes in rats exposed to white LEDs like those sometimes used in household lighting.3
Read More: Hidden Blue Hazard? LED Lighting and Retinal Damage in Rats →
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