News tagged with environmental toxins
Pain, epigenetics and endometriosis: Research team wants to know how molecular tweaks affect which women hurt the most
Most of us probably know at least one woman, and maybe quite a few more, with endometriosis. Despite the disease's prevalence, there is no consensus on the cause of it, the existing treatment options leave a lot to be desired, ...
Medical research
Apr 23, 2013 |
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Research team breakthrough in delivering drugs to the brain
Researchers at UCL have made a breakthrough in the way that drugs could be delivered to the brain.
Medical research
Mar 11, 2013 |
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Why are children at higher risk for negative health effects of environmental toxins?
More than 85,000 synthetic chemicals are registered for commercial use with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and only about half of those produced in large quantities are tested for their potential ...
Health
Jan 09, 2013 |
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Study links carcinogens to cancer stem cells -- but spinach can help
Researchers at Oregon State University for the first time have traced the actions of a known carcinogen in cooked meat to its complex biological effects on microRNA and cancer stem cells.
Cancer
Jun 20, 2012 |
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Detector of DNA damage: Structure of a repair factor revealed
Double-stranded breaks in cellular DNA can trigger tumorigenesis. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, Germany, have determined the structure of a protein involved in the repair and signaling ...
Medical research
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Environment key to preventing childhood disabilities
The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing ...
Health
May 01, 2012 |
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Higher maternal age predicts risk of autism
In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and King's College London, researchers analyz ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Allergy misconceptions: Why hay fever may be a good sign
(Medical Xpress) -- If you're one of the millions of people coughing, sneezing, sputtering, and cursing your body's hypersensitivity to ragweed, trees, and grass this spring, researchers at Yale have what ...
Immunology
Apr 25, 2012 |
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High levels of phthalates can lead to greater risk for type-2 diabetes
There is a connection between phthalates found in cosmetics and plastics and the risk of developing diabetes among seniors. Even at a modest increase in circulating phthalate levels, the risk of diabetes is doubled. This ...
Diabetes
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Reproductive health providers should discuss environmental exposure risks with patients
Remove your shoes at the door of your home to avoid tracking in pollutants. Decrease consumption of processed and canned foods. Avoid the use of plastics with recycling codes #3, #4 and #7. Don't use chemical tick and flea ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Mar 06, 2012 |
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NIST releases two new SRMs for monitoring human exposure to environmental toxins
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed two new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for measurements of human exposure ...
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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10 years after attacks on World Trade Center, human health cost is still being counted
The World Trade Center disaster exposed nearly half a million people to hazardous chemicals, environmental toxins, and traumatic events. According to research published in the December 2011 issue of Elsevier-published journal ...
Health
Dec 12, 2011 |
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By reprogramming skin cells into brain cells, scientists gain new insights into mental disorders
For many poorly understood mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism, scientists have wished they could uncover what goes wrong inside the brain before damage ensues.
Medical research
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Fail-safe system may lead to cures for inherited disorders
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown fail-safe (compensatory) pathway that potentially protects the brain and other organs from genetic and environmental ...
Medical research
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Discovery offers molecular insights into link between Parkinson's and pesticides
In a new article published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine take some of the first steps toward unraveling the molecular dysfunction that o ...
Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2011 |
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