http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Food and environment can chemically alter your gene function and scientists have identified a gene that is consistently altered in obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-scientists-gene-obese-individuals.html Genetics Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:42:17 EST news283084872 Parents, teachers and psychologists know boys and girls behave differently. However, that difference isn't taken into account by most methods used to assess the risk to children from chemical exposure, according to Cheryl Rosenfeld, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the University of Missouri's Bond Life Sciences Center. A series of experiments by Rosenfeld studied the effects of prenatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) on later reproductive-associated behaviors using a socially and genetically monogamous rodent, the California mouse, which may better mirror most human societies than other rodents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-bisphenol-affects-sex-specific-reproductive-behaviors.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:48:14 EST news279805678 Despite known risks and recommendations for protective equipment, many people are still affected with asthma after exposure to chemicals at work. This is the finding of an international study of 13,000 people carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-plumber-painter-high-risk-occupations-asthma.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:00:24 EST news277462814 (Medical Xpress)—There's a reason emergency personnel train for the aftermath of a dirty bomb or an explosion at a nuclear power plant. They'll be faced with a deluge of urgent tasks, such as identifying who's been irradiated, who has an injury-induced infection, and who's suffering from both. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-scientists-quick-id-people-exposed.html Medical research Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:34:33 EST news274952067 University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has uncovered evidence that one of the fathers of radiation genetics, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Muller, knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-suppression-evidence-effects-nobel-laureate.html Other Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:09:04 EST news235753728