Indoor coal use associated with possible impairment of early childhood growth

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

Children raised in homes using indoor coal for cooking or heating appear to be about a half-inch shorter at age 36 months than those in households using other fuel sources, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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