http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. France said Tuesday it would call for Europe-wide controls on a paper product containing bisphenol A after a watchdog agency said the widely-used chemical may expose unborn children to breast cancer later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-plastic-chemical-expose-foetuses-cancer.html Health Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:02:05 EST news284709689 A few years ago, manufacturers of water bottles, food containers, and baby products had a big problem. A key ingredient of the plastics they used to make their merchandise, an organic compound called bisphenol A, had been linked by scientists to diabetes, asthma and cancer and altered prostate and neurological development. The FDA and state legislatures were considering action to restrict BPA's use, and the public was pressuring retailers to remove BPA-containing items from their shelves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bpa-substitute-bisphenol-disrupts-hormone.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:04:03 EST news278096634 Weak concentrations of bisphenol A are sufficient to produce a negative reaction on the human testicle. This has just been shown experimentally for the first time by René Habert and his colleagues (UMR Cellules souches et Radiations [UMR Stem Cells and Radiation], Inserm U 967 – CEA – Paris Diderot University) in an article that appeared in the journal entitled  Plos One. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-effects-bisphenol-experimentally.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:15:05 EST news278072085 The French parliament voted Thursday to ban the use of bisphenol A, a chemical thought to have a toxic effect on the brain and nervous system, in baby food packaging next year and all food containers in 2015. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-france-contested-chemical-bpa-food.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:55:22 EST news274607715 New research led by researchers at North Carolina State University shows that exposure to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) early in life results in high levels of anxiety by causing significant gene expression changes in a specific region of the brain called the amygdala. The researchers also found that a soy-rich diet can mitigate these effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-bpa-affects-gene-anxiety-soy.html Medical research Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:23:29 EST news266242989 (HealthDay) -- When Hacah Boros gave birth to her daughter three years ago, giving her infant formula was "completely out of the question," said the 35-year-old nurse from central Connecticut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-infant-formula-major-source-bpa.html Health Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:20:01 EST news260801360 Exposure to low doses of Bisphenol A (BPA) during gestation had immediate and long-lasting, trans-generational effects on the brain and social behaviors in mice, according to a recent study accepted for publication in the journal Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-bpa-exposure-effects.html Health Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:07 EST news258913862 Worrying levels of BPA, an industrial chemical with suspected links to cancer, lurk inside canned soups and pasta targeted at American children, the Breast Cancer Fund said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-toxic-bpa-children-soup-cans.html Health Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:55:56 EST news235810538