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Blog Entry Junk food is not the whole story.
Reporters can do a better job to address obesity as a complex disease where junk food is not the only culprit.
Synopsis Women would quit nursing if pollutants found in breastmilk.
A majority of breastfeeding women said if they knew the milk was tainted with pollutants they would wean their babies early out of fear of exposing them to ...
Synopsis Study finds moms share phthalates with their babies.
In the first study of its kind, researchers in Taiwan find that phthalates can pass from pregnant women to their unborn babies and affect reproductive ...
Synopsis Plasticizer related to lower hormone levels in men.
Adult men with average amounts of phthalates in their urine had lower levels of two important hormones -- testosterone and estrogen -- in their blood.
Synopsis Low mercury levels damage nerves.
A reanalysis of decades-old data finds that neurologic problems caused by eating mercury-contaminated fish plagued Japanese residents 10 years after the ...
Synopsis Older moms and dads might be a reason for more autism.
Women who give birth after age 35 and men who father children after age 40 increase their risk of having autistic children, according to a large ...
Synopsis A widely-used, understudied chemical alters inflammation.
Dibutyltin, an understudied chemical used widely in PVC plastics, can interfere with the natural ability of human and animals cells to control important immune ...
Synopsis Stem cells show how nicotine affects early pregnancy.
Nicotine interferes with implantation and increases cell death in the very early stages of pregnancy that could lead to infertility and fetal loss, finds new ...
Blog Entry Moderation in pregnancy is perhaps a more realistic and useful message.
A Los Angeles Times article tries to make sense of results from two recently published studies that again challenge assumptions about the safety of moderate ...
Synopsis Another chemical found to be harmful to boys.
Another chemical commonly found in the urine of U.S. residents was added to the list of those that are possibly contributing to the subtle feminization of ...
Synopsis Moms and their babies share phthalate contamination.
A study of US moms and their babies found that phthalates measured in their urine were similar and correlated, suggesting the chemical exposure is coming from ...
Synopsis Smaller babies from PCBs?
Danish mothers who ate fish during pregnancy had higher PCB levels in their blood and smaller babies. This finding clouds advice to pregnant women about the ...