A Dearborn-based nonprofit social services agency is working with Wayne State University to study asthma in the Detroit suburb\'s heavily industrial south end. WSU and the Arab American Center for Community and Economic Social Services, known as ACCESS, will be recruiting participants starting this fall for the three-year study. Researchers will collect air samples and examine them for contents that can trigger asthma. The study is focusing on the area that includes three steel mills, an oil refinery and a wastewater treatment plant in Dearborn and neighboring Detroit.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110722/METRO01/107220402/1361/Wayne-State--nonprofit-studying-asthma-in-Dearborn
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/health/2011/07/wayne-state-nonprofit-studying-asthma-dearborn
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/e9eedba4d45c4842a3383e765c8b2cca/MI--Asthma-Study-Dearborn/