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Wildfire smoke can harm your brain, not just your lungs

By Bhavini Gohel, Clinical Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Muskaan Muse Laroyia, MSc Candidate & Graduate Researcher, Neuroscience, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary

Wildfires are already burning in parts of Canada, and as they do, many communities are already facing the familiar thick haze as smoke drifts in.

Smoke from wildfires has already led Environment Canada to issue…

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