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Chemical "Soup" Clouds Connection between Toxins and Poor Health

Source: Scientific American, Nov 23 2012, 6:22am CST

From plastics to flame retardants, the ubiquitous chemicals of our daily lives have raised public health concerns like never before. Inside the Beltway, however, data-crunching scientists are often no match for industry lobbyists and corp ...

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Your Frying Pan Could Increase Your Risk of Osteoarthritis—and Other Health Problems

Source: The Renegade Health Show  |   Jun 19 2013, 8:48am CDT

Do you save time cleaning by using non-stick cookware? Best to check it again to make sure it’s not creating risks to your health. Do you cook your meals in non-stick pans? Use microwave popcorn bags? Walk on stain-resistant carpet? If so, you may be ...

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Republicans Blast Fed Scientist for Article Linking Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals to Health Effects

Source: Beyond Pesticides  |   Jun 18 2013, 11:01pm CDT

(Beyond Pesticides, June 19, 2013) The Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Linda Birnbaum, PhD, is being criticized by some Republicans for authoring an article that describes linkages between endocri ...

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"Is this caused by genes or is this caused by the environment?"


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Calif. Governor Brown Announces Appointments for June 18, 2013 including to the California Scientific Guidance Panel

Source: eNewsChannels  |   Jun 18 2013, 3:38pm CDT

Copyright © 2013 California Newswire. This content is copyrighted under U.S. and international law and may only be used for non-commercial purposes by news aggregators or under license of the Neotrope® News Network (www.neotrope ...

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How Development Can Impact Public Health, Environment, Report

Source: Kansas City Infozine  |   Jun 18 2013, 7:08am CDT

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its most comprehensive review to date on how the built environment – the way we build our cities and towns – directly affects our environment and public health. The publicat ...

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Claim: Air pollution causes autism

Source: Junk Science  |   Jun 17 2013, 11:23pm CDT

… if this were true, autism rates would have exploded in the U.S. in the 1940s and continued high until the 1970s or so. Moreover, autism rates would be soaring in China right now. Additionally, the researchers have ...

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Environmental Protection Agency: Constantly Leaping Before It Looks

Source: Forbes  |   Jun 17 2013, 7:30am CDT

The stated mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is protecting America from “significant risks to human health and the environment.” This was previously driven by science, but too often EPA’s current action ...

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San Diego Companies Awarded EPA Grants To Study Health, Environment

Source: KPBS | 89.5 FM  |   Jun 13 2013, 1:54pm CDT

Two San Diego companies were awarded grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today to develop technologies that will improve human health and the environment. RegeneMed Inc. will develop a three-dimensional human breas ...

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Toxin Alert! Why you need to know about 1,4 Dioxane

Source: Hello Dollface  |   Jun 13 2013, 9:55am CDT

Have you heard of 1,4 Dioxane? You might want to learn about it as this toxin is found in products that create suds, like shampoo, liquid soap and bubble bath. According to the Environmental Working Group, 57 percent of baby soaps and 22 ...

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