When temps rise, so do medical risks — should doctors bring it up more?
An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by Phoenix standards. It wasn’t even high enough to trigger an official heat warning for the wider public. But research has shown that those temperatures, coming so early in June, would drive up the number of heat-related hospital visits and deaths across the Boston region.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.