{
  "id": 7587432,
  "title": "Hot, dry weather can make you cough more—salty air might help",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/hot-dry-weather-can-make-you-cough-more-salty-air-might-help",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-15T16:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-hot-dry-weather-salty-air.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Button, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and collaborators have identified how extremely dry air during heat waves can make the airways more sensitive and more likely to cough, and how a nonpharmacological magnesium salt aerosol may provide relief.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}