http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Increasing evidence shows urban and rural children are regularly exposed to low levels of pesticides that can have serious long-term health effects, according to a report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-american-academy-pediatrics-issues-policy.html Pediatrics Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:22:52 EST news275210553 In a sobering study published in the journal Environmental Health, researchers at UC Davis and UCLA measured food-borne toxin exposure in children and adults by pinpointing foods with high levels of toxic compounds and determining how much of these foods were consumed. The researchers found that family members in the study, and preschool children in particular, are at high risk for exposure to arsenic, dieldrin, DDE (a DDT metabolite), dioxins and acrylamide. These compounds have been linked to cancer, developmental disabilities, birth defects and other conditions. However, the study also points to dietary modifications that could mitigate risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-exposure-food-borne-toxins.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:10 EST news272037536 You're in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. You figure you've just made the healthier decision by choosing the organic product—but new findings from Stanford University cast some doubt on your thinking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-evidence-health-benefits-foods.html Health Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:00:03 EST news265890529 Air samples from homes of Hispanic mothers-to-be along the Texas-Mexico border contained multiple pesticides in a majority of the houses, according to a study conducted by the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-air-moms-homes-pesticides-border.html Health Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:02:22 EST news261230531 Smoking, head injury, pesticide exposure, farming and less education may be risk factors for a rare sleep disorder that causes people to kick or punch during sleep, according to a study published in the June 27, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-injury-pesticide-factors-rare-disorder.html Neuroscience Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:31:14 EST news260037060 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health and development of children, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health have found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides – widely used on food crops – is related to lower intelligence scores at age 7. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-prenatal-pesticide-exposure-tied-iq.html Health Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:39:22 EST news222579549