Babies exposed in the womb to chemicals used in non-stick cookware and other products may be born slightly smaller than other infants, two new studies report.
Earlier tests on animals have linked two chemicals, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), to cancer and developmental problems.
Studies also show that the chemicals can remain in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city’s sewer plant.
The test wouldn’t be used to finger any single person as a drug user. But it would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of […]
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On this day four years ago, 16-year-old Martin Burton died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage. His parents, Nigel, 48, and Sue, 47, donated his organs for transplantation, saving one boy’s life and helping many others. Here, Sue tells SARAH EBNER the tragic story of what happened to her son…
Martin was hooked up to […]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2007, 4:33doi:10.1186/1479-5868-4-33
Published 24August2007
Abstract (provisional)
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Background
The purpose of this study was to (1) compare […]
BERLIN (AP) Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and about 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. A federal lab confirmed that the […]
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