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An Eye on Increase in Testicular Cancer

...rmation. “Recent studies show that environmental exposures may affect development of testicular cancer,” said Zheng. “Determining risk factors that lead to testicular cancer, however is complicated because genetic susceptibility may modify a person’s risk from environmental exposures. We will try to assess t...

Chlorpyrifos Affects Mental Development of Foetus

...ted here are comparable to what has been seen with exposures to other neurotoxicants such as lead and tobacco s...l Health noted that, "By identifying environmental exposures that adversely effect fetal development and also affect children's ability to learn, the research pr...

Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing the Brain Development of Children Worldwide

Fetal and early childhood exposures to industrial chemicals in the environment can damage the developing brain and can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs)—autism,// attention deficit disorder (ADHD), and mental retardation. Still, there has been insufficient research done to id...

New Study Challenges How Regulators Determine Risk

...stake has infiltrated all regulations for low-dose exposures for toxic chemicals and drugs. These low-dose effects can be beneficial or harmful, something that the regulations miss because they are currently based on high-dose testing schemes that differ greatly from the conditions of human exposures. In th...

Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures: Study

...ll loss, narcolepsy may be caused by environmental exposures before the age of onset in genetically susceptible...gues have produced the scenario that environmental exposures may be a contributing factor into a person's development of narcolepsy, investigators must intensify...

Allergies Not Just for Children Anymore

... whose parents are also allergic. Environmental exposures are important as well. Urban dwellers are more likely to have hay fever and/or asthma than those who live on a farm. This may occur because of the decreased exposure to certain types of environmental substances - called endotoxins - that comes from a...

Phthalate Exposure Affects Testosterone Levels and Fertility in Men

...search adds to the growing suspicion that low-dose exposures to phthalates and other common chemicals may be re...e is what combinations of common low-dose chemical exposures might be contributing to these problems." Source-Eurekalert RI...

Gene Study To Reveal Radiation Poisoning

...cy.Chute speculates the false positives and missed exposures were caused by exposure to radiation during previous cancer treatments. Chute believes that with current gene-chip technology the test will take three days to complete. Yet the group is in the process of refining its method by homing in on a set o...

Rare Case of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Between Dental Patients Recorded

...history of intravenous drug use or other potential exposures to HBV who had undergone multiple tooth extractions on a single office visit. A cross-match of the state's Hepatitis B Registry identified the source patient: a 36-year-old woman who had had teeth extracted hours earlier on the same day in the same o...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...mportant exposure to disease-causing Borrelia from exposures to other non-pathogenic families of Borrelia. The patent covers the development of the chimeric proteins themselves, the nucleic acids (genetic material) used to generate the proteins, the methods used to make the proteins, the methods used to deli...

Male Child Birth Dropping in US and Japan

...nutritional factors, physical health, and chemical exposures of pregnant women affect their ability to have chi...t examine sex ratio in smaller groups with defined exposures as a potential indicator of environmental contamination." <...

Dining Out is Risky for Food-allergic Consumers

...rants accounted for up to 25 percent of accidental exposures in persons with peanut and tree nut allergies, and 15 of 32 percent of fatal reactions to foods began from food obtained in a restaurant or food establishment. Dr. Sicherer emphasizes that the discrepancy between high comfort in preparation of a sa...

PFOA and PFOS Detected in Newborns

...We will need additional research to understand how exposures are occurring in this region,” said Lynn Goldman, MD, co-author of the study and a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Addition study authors include Antonia M. Calafat, Julie B. He...

Today Cancer is the Deadliest Killer

...c Health and Environment. "Known and preventable exposures are clearly responsible for hundreds of thousands of excess cancer cases each year. In the interests of protecting our health, we must adopt an approach rooted in primary prevention, that is to make workplaces free from carcinogenic risks.""The contr...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...h as to pesticides, smoking and coffee. These same exposures might contribute to the cause of Parkinsons disease during gestation, they suggest....

Different Causes for Childhood Brain Aneurysm was Revealed

...ta suggests unknown genetic factors, environmental exposures or an interaction of the two may predispose certain children to aneurysm development. An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel weakens and stretches, forming a bulge in the vessel wall that can rupture and hemorrhage. Intracranial arterial aneurysmsu...

Exposure to Cocaine During Pregnancy Weakens Kindergarten Kids Attention

...r. One doctor even suggested that prenatal cocaine exposures effects were next to the problems caused when pregnant mothers use alcohol and tobacco. In general, children born to cocaine-using mothers are doing much better than anyone predicted, especially considering their background, said Tamara Warner, re...

Pregnant Mom's Exposure to Flu Vaccine Benefits Fetal Immune System

...determining when immune responses to environmental exposures begin....

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

...bies. The effects on children of small, repeated exposures over a long period of time are unclear, said University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi. But acute pesticide poisoning can cause nausea, blurred vision, an abnormally fast heart rate, paralysis and death. Chrissy Garavito, ...

Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma

The link between environmental exposures and asthma has been clearly described, but a new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds a strong association between domestic violence and asthma. The study, in the upcoming June issue of the International Journal...

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