Study finds children are exposed to pesticides
...posures are affecting children's health. The study concludes that regulators need to look at exposure standards and determine if they are appropriate, says one of the study authors, Richard Fenske, a professor of environmental health in UW's School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is also director o...The genetics of aging: New study says cell division errors may be the common link
...ndation, published in the latest issue of Science, concludes that human aging and its associated diseases and conditions can be traced to a gradual increase in cell division errors in tissues throughout the body. This functional change begins slowly in middle age and increases gradually with advancing age. Acc...Co-existing illnesses, high cholesterol add to suicide risk
...es the number and seriousness of suicideattempts," concludes lead researcher Paul Soloff, M.D. A second study found that the risk of violent suicidehanging, shooting, cutting, or jumpingdoubledamong individuals with high serum cholesterol. After reviewing five independent population surveys inFinland, research...100th Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
...Los Angeles Convention Center. The meeting, which concludes the celebration of the Society's 100th year in existence, will feature approximately 3,000 scientific presentations on topics spanning the spectrum of the microbiological sciences. Microbiologists study living organisms and infectious agents, and th...Americans still face dietary challenges
...ggressive federal programs are especially lacking, concludes Glanz, who sees an urgent need for efforts aimed at poor and minority populations. "As they promote fruits, vegetables, and grains, policymakers must rise above this country's meat and dairy interests and reach consensus with scientists and agen...American Psychiatric Association January 2000 tipsheet
... care and focus of policy and legal reform. Geller concludes policymakers and practitioners are still too near-sighted on the location of care and treatment instead of on the humanness, effectiveness, and quality of care. [“The Last Half-Century of Psychiatric Services as Reflected in Psychiatric Service...Evidence of bacterial life found in deepest-yet Antarctic ice-core
... the ice-covered ocean of the Jovian moon Europa," concludes Karl. Karl and his group are part of an international team of scientists examining the ice below Vostok Station, a Russian scientific outpost in the Antarctic interior. Lake Vostok is one of nearly 80 subglacial lakes discovered and mapped using a...Evidence for historic global warming published in Science
...ce-like solid into a gas. The article concludes with a call for further research, "Even though our results suggest that methane was released from the Blake Nose region, during the LPTM, the mass of methane from this region alone is insufficient to explain the magnitude of global perturbations at t...Monsanto's modified soya beans don't agree with the heat
...gluphosinate, were not affected by the heat, so he concludes the problem must be peculiar to glyphosate resistance. "It's not genetic modification per se that's causing the effects," he says. Vencill says that the bacterial enzyme that imparts resistance to glyphosate affects a major metabolic pathway in the...CIIT publishes formaldehyde cancer risk assessment
...sures compared with earlier models. The assessment concludes that the risk of tumors at low levels of exposure is far less because of the lack of regenerative cell proliferation that stimulates the mutation process that causes tumors. CIIT researchers used computational flow dynamics (CFD) algorithms with mode...A study by scientists at Johns Hopkins University concludes that atleast ten million Americans are affected by one of 80 known autoimmune diseases-- conditions such as type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes, lupus, multiplesclerosis and even Takayasu's arteritis, which attacks the aorta and itsbranches. These co...Perchlorate found in fertilizers
... as analytical methods are standardized. The study concludes with a call for more research: "Clearly, improved knowledgeof the potential human exposure to perchlorate through the fertilizer-food chainpathway is warranted based on the results of this screening study."...Lowering your homocysteine level may help reduce risk for heart disease
...ne, vitamins and cardiovascular risk. An editorial concludes that high-risk persons with elevated plasma homocysteinelevels should probably take folic acid supplements, and the rest of us shouldeat plenty of fruits and vegetables, good sources of folic acid, "just as ourparents always told us." Contents "...Computers have had dramatic impact on chemistry
...computerized world is by no means a dreary place," concludes Dessy....Donated organs 'heirlooms not spare parts'
...anddisappointments," says Ms Wilson. The research concludes that there needs to be a serious rethink about how we asa society view this very emotional issue. "Human organs cannot be treated as'spare parts'-they are not alienable objects. We are clearly dealing here withthe 'spirit of a gift' which links the d...Ice-covered antarctic lake may harbor unknown life
... Curiosity or a Focus for InterdisciplinaryStudy," concludes that the lake "may represent a unique region for d... prevent possiblecontamination. The report concludes that Lake Vostok merits further scientificinvestigation, including devising a way to drill through t...Understanding Earth's Underwater Forests: Kelp Demography Off The Coast Of California
...very differentpatterns appear over larger scales," concludes Dayton. Research was funded by the National Science Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, California Sea Grant College Program, UCSD, and the City of San Diego....Keep Off The Grass And Take Off Your Shoes!
...ation, consumers cansubstantially reduce track-in, concludes the study. Results of the study, involving application of the herbicide 2,4-D tothe lawns of 13 homes in the Columbus, Ohio, area, are scheduled to appear inthe May 1 print issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science &Technology,...No Link To CJD In People Working With Animals....At Least Not Yet
...d be anything from two to more than 30 years. She concludes that despite Aylin et al's optimistic findings, this uncertainty re-emphasises the need to continue epidemiological surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Europe. Contact: Dr Paul Aylin, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and...New Hampshire Study Shows Well Water Has Higher Arsenic Levels Than Municipal Water
...ss than 15 households or 25 individuals."The study concludes that tighter federal guidelines would not necessarily"alleviate the health risk" to people who get their water from domestic wellsthatare not regulated by EPA. The article claims that 15 percent of the U.S.population, including nearly 40 percent of...