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Advocates sound alarm on cell phone radiation.
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.
Full StoryMaine panel weighs cell phone cancer warning.
The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on a bill that would make Maine the first state to carry warnings that cell phones can cause brain cancer.
Full StoryMaine lawmakers mull cell phone health warnings.
Maine’s state Legislature could soon vote on a bill making the Northeast U.S. state the first to require that cellular phones carry warnings of a possible link between mobile phone radiation and brain cancer.
Full StoryA chemical that shouldn’t be in breast milk.
Finding PBDEs in breast milk means that breast-fed infants will receive a dose of this brain toxin. Babies and children are at greater risk from chemicals that affect their developing bodies than are adults, making this all the more alarming.
Full StorySex hormone trial for head injury
Progesterone – the sex hormone used in the first contraceptive pills – is to be tested on brain injury patients in a major US trial.
Full StoryToxins Impair Children’s Neurological Development – And A 10-Step Program To Stop It
Three new studies add to the growing laundry list of evidence linking every day toxic exposures and neurodevelopmental impacts in children.
Full StoryCommunicating With a Patient in a Vegetative State
Using magnetic resonance imaging technology, doctors have been able to communicate with a 29-year-old car accident victim who remains in a persistent vegetative state.
Full StoryFDA Update on Bisphenol A (BPA) for Use in Food
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial chemical that has been present in many hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s. Studies employing standardized toxicity tests have thus far supported the safety of current low levels of human exposure to BPA. However, on the basis of results from recent studies using novel approaches to test for subtle effects, both the National Toxicology Program at the National Institutes of Health and FDA have some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children. In cooperation with the National Toxicology Program, FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research is carrying out in-depth studies to answer key questions and clarify uncertainties about the risks of BPA.
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