(Beyond Pesticides, May 26, 2004) In agricultural and urban areas, the quality of our nation’s water resources has been degraded by contaminants such as pesticides, nutrients, and gasoline-related compounds, according to Water Quality in the Nation’s Streams and Aquifers-Overview of Selected Findings, 1991-2001 released earlier this month. Based on a series of 51 United States […]
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April 21, 2004 | WASHINGTON — A study that links lawn chemicals to bladder cancer in Scottish terriers could help shed light on whether they cause cancer in some people, U.S. researchers said Tuesday. Purdue University researchers surveyed 83 owners of Scottish terriers whose pets had recently been diagnosed with bladder cancer for their report, […]
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By Marla Cone – Los Angeles Times Staff Writer – December 12, 2003 Scientists trying to unravel why childhood asthma has reached epidemic proportions have reported that a variety of chemical exposures during infancy – including pesticides and wood smoke – can substantially increase a child’s risk of developing the disease. Studying nearly 700 […]
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Muhammad Towhid Salam, Yu-Fen Li, Bryan Langholz, and Frank Davis Gilliland Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA Early-life experiences and environmental exposures have been associated with childhood asthma. To investigate further whether the timing of such experiences and exposures is associated with the occurrence […]
On June 18, 2003, The New York Times reported that scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say there is “sufficient evidence” to conclude that the country’s most widely used pesticide, atrazine, causes sexual abnormality in frogs. They are recommending that the agency conduct more research to understand atrazine’s mechanisms and its broader impact […]
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NIH-published journal, Environmental Health Perspectives Kori B. Flower, Jane A. Hoppin, Charles F. Lynch, Aaron Blair, Charles Knott, David L. Shore, and Dale P. Sandler Abstract Parental exposure to pesticides may contribute to childhood cancer risk. Through the Agricultural Health Study (AHS), a prospective study of pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina, we […]
March 24, 2003 | BLACKSBURG, Va. — A grant from the U.S. Army has led Virginia Tech researchers to discover that exposure to some insecticides may cause a cascade of chemical events in the brain that could lead to Parkinson’s Disease. Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, a neurotoxicologist and associate professor in the university’s Department of […]
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September 10, 2002 | Farmers exposed to pesticides have nearly a six-fold increased risk of suffering from depressive symptoms, according to a new study published in the Annals of Epidemiology (vol. 12, no. 6, pages 389-394). “Pesticide Poisoning and Depressive Symptoms Among Farm Residents” looks at exposure to individuals exposed to agriculture use of organophosphate […]
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