The U.S. health care system is ill-prepared to treat pregnant patients and their infants who have endured the impacts of wildfire smoke exposure, a new study finds.

Many residents of communities prone to the proliferation of wildfire smoke lack geographic access to the treatments they might need, according to the study, published in the American Public Health Association's Medical Care journal.

"The smoke-plumes generated by wildfires can be transported over large distances and affect nearly every community in the U.S., even those far from fire activity," the authors stated.

The researchers, from the University of Maryland and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, warned that exposure to smoke during........

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