(Beyond Pesticides, September 6, 2006) According to researchers at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), residential pesticide use represents the most important risk factor for children’s exposure to pyrethroid insecticides. The study, A Longitudinal Approach to Assessing Urban and Suburban Children’s Exposure to Pyrethroid Pesticides, is published in the September […]
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(Beyond Pesticides, July 19, 2006) According to the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and Science Daily, two studies of immigrant farmworker families in North Carolina and Virginia find evidence of pesticide exposure in young children, which prompted researchers to call for pesticide safety training for workers’ spouses. In the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, […]
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 114, Number 9, September 2006 Research | Children’s Health Chensheng Lu,1 Dana B. Barr,2 Melanie Pearson,1 Scott Bartell,1 and Roberto Bravo 1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2 National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, […]
(Beyond Pesticides, March 9, 2006) Children in Ecuador whose mothers were exposed to pesticides while pregnant have increased blood pressure and diminished ability to copy geometric figures as compared to a control group, according to an epidemiological study in the March issue of Pediatrics. The results appear to be independent of current exposure to the […]
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Occupational and Environmental Study, 2006 Feb;63(2):131-4. Menegaux F, Baruchel A, Bertrand Y, Lescoeur B, Leverger G, Nelken B, Sommelet D, Hemon D, Clavel J. INSERM, U170, IFR69, Villejuif, France. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relation between childhood acute leukemia and household exposure to pesticides. METHODS: The study included 280 incident cases of acute leukemia and 288 […]
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(Beyond Pesticides, October 11, 2005) European children are absorbing dangerous chemicals into their blood from computers, textiles, cosmetics and electrical appliances, according to a new study released last week by WWF. Generation X, WWF’s first European Union‚ wide family testing survey, found a total of 73 man-made hazardous compounds in the blood of grandmothers, mothers […]
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F Menegaux1, A Baruchel2, Y Bertrand3, B Lescoeur4, G Leverger5, B Nelken6, D Sommelet7, D Hmon1 and J Clavel1 1 INSERM, U170, IFR69, Villejuif, France 2 Department of Pediatric Hematology, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France 3 Department of Pediatric Hematology, Debrousse Hospital, Lyon, France 4 Department of Pediatric Hematology-Immunology, Robert Debr√© Hospital, Paris, France 5 Department […]
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Ken Sexton1*, John L. Adgate, Ann L. Fredrickson, Andrew D. Ryan, Larry L. Needham, and David L. Ashley, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, MMC 807, Mayo building 420 Delaware Street, S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0392 Abstract Concurrent exposure to a mixture of more than 50 environmental chemicals was assessed by measuring the chemicals or […]
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 […]
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