Do Toxins Cause Autism?
by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Autism was first identified in 1943 in an obscure medical journal. Since then it has become a frighteningly common affliction, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting recently that autism disorders now affect almost 1 percent of children. Over recent decades, other development...
Read MoreKids born via IVF mostly faring well into adulthood.
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Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological...
Read MoreDust bunnies tainted with toxins?
Mar 08, 2010 –
Household dust consists of a potpourri that can include lead, arsenic and other potentially harmful substances. Read more: Dust bunnies tainted with toxins? Read More →
Read MoreAdvocates sound alarm on cell phone radiation.
Mar 08, 2010 –
Mindy Brown is on a crusade to warn people about radiation from cell phones. It started after her husband, Fresno State football coach Dan Brown, developed brain cancer. Read...
Read MoreEarly childhood obesity risks.
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Pediatric obesity experts now say intervention should begin early — very early. The risk of becoming overweight or obese begins before a child is born, establishes roots in...
Read MoreFat American children: many causes, a lifetime of effects.
Mar 07, 2010 –
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese has been growing for decades, and now nearly one in three has a body mass index that’s greater than normal. Read...
Read MoreStudies show danger of even small amounts of lead in children’s blood.
Mar 07, 2010 –
High doses of lead have for some time been linked to chronic kidney damage. But a recent study out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center found that even small levels of lead...
Read MoreThe awful cost of a rural lead-smelting miracle.
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When news began circulating that the smelting industry in this remote farming area of China was about to expand, peasants rejoiced. Today, years later, Jiyuan is at the centre...
Read MoreLeukemia: the price of living close to an oil refinery?
Mar 05, 2010 –
Swedish scientists have discovered a remarkable increase in the incidence of leukemia in people living close to an oil refinery. Read more: Leukemia: the price of living close...
Read MoreThe Chesapeake’s three stages of truth.
Mar 05, 2010 –
The philosopher Schopenhauer once said that truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident....
Read MorePhthalates predispose mice to allergies.
Mar 04, 2010 –
Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) rubbed onto mouse skin changed the chemistry of the rodents’ immune system and made them more prone to developing contact allergies, reports a new...
Read MoreNo gold medal for ski wax.
Mar 04, 2010 –
The Olympic skiers who recently dazzled the world on Canadian slopes couldn’t have reached the speeds they did without ski wax. But the material may have a dark side. Read...
Read MoreSex-change in frogs and chemical castration ’caused by weedkiller.’
Mar 03, 2010 –
One of the most common weed-killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be killing off amphibian populations worldwide. Read more: Sex-change...
Read MoreStudy says herbicide causes frogs’ sex change.
Mar 03, 2010 –
A powerful and widely used herbicide called Atrazine changes the sex of many male frogs to females and emasculates three-quarters of others, according to research reported this...
Read MoreTap water contaminant ‘castrates’ frogs.
Mar 03, 2010 –
An herbicide that contaminates the tap water consumed by millions of Americans has been found to produce gender-bending effects in male frogs, “chemically castrating”...
Read MoreA common herbicide turns some male frogs into females.
Mar 03, 2010 –
Some 225,000 kilograms of atrazine fall with the rain each year, sometimes up to 1,000 kilometers from the source. All that atrazine may be having another effect besides controlling...
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