Health
New light on asbestos risks
Scientists are coming up with new ways to assess the risk of exposure to asbestos, leading to improved management of sites contaminated with the potentially lethal material.
Sep 18, 2013
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News tagged with environmental contaminants
Health
Fetal neuromaturation associated with mother's exposure to ddt and other environmental contaminants
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has for the first time found that a mother's higher exposure to some common environmental contaminants was associated with more frequent and ...
Jun 11, 2013
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Health
Is enough being done to make drinking water safe?
There is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of technologies used to reduce arsenic contamination finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Evidence. More studies assessing the technologies ...
May 30, 2013
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Health
Cancer and birth defects in Iraq: The nuclear legacy
Ten years after the Iraq war of 2003 a team of scientists based in Mosul, northern Iraq, have detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh which, coupled with dramatically ...
May 21, 2013
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Health
Arsenic in drinking water linked to lung disease
New research from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has uncovered likely mechanisms for the link between arsenic in drinking water and increased risk of developing chronic lung disease.
Dec 6, 2012
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Immunology
Smoking affects allergy-relevant stem cells, study finds
Environmental contaminants, such as smoking, are harmful to the human organism in relation to the occurrence of allergies. This is known. Until now, researchers had never investigated whether and to what extent environmental ...
Nov 14, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Grape seed extract bollixes norovirus
Norovirus causes more than half of all food-born illnesses in the United States, and is the second greatest source of reported food borne illness outbreaks in the European Union. A recent study found that grape seed extract ...
Nov 9, 2012
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Health
Study finds elevated levels of formaldehyde, other contaminants, in day care centers
A new, comprehensive survey of day care centers by University of California, Berkeley, researchers found that, overall, the environmental quality in child care settings was similar to other indoor environments, but that levels ...
Oct 25, 2012
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Medical research
Prenatal damage from dioxin shown to involve microRNAs
(Medical Xpress)—Research carried out at the University of South Carolina has identified novel mechanisms through which dioxin, a well-known environmental contaminant, can alter physiological functions, according to a study ...
Sep 17, 2012
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Medical research
Exposure to environmental chemicals in the womb reprograms the rodent brain to disrupt reproduction
Prenatal exposure to the environmental contaminants polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, causes long-term changes to the developing brain that have adverse effects on reproductive function later in life, a new study finds. ...
Jun 26, 2012
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