Living near pesticide-treated farms raises risk of childhood brain tumors
Published on Wednesday, March 31, in the
Environmental Research journal, the study also revealed that the pregnant women did not have to be working in agriculture or in close contact with pesticides for health-harming exposures to occur.
Study co-author Christina Lombardi, a public health researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said there are large numbers of pregnant women and children living close to pesticide-treated farmlands. Both mothers and children could experience adverse health effects from their proximity to those farmlands.
The study is not the first to show that pesticide use poses a threat to pregnant women and their children. But it is unique in that it showed the specific pesticides linked to the development of different kinds of CNS tumors.
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Apellis announced that the phase III PRINCE trial of newly approved pegcetacoplan (Empaveli) versus standard of care in patients with treatment-naive paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria met its co-primary endpoints.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that added two American scientists as joint inventors of PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, for which a Japanese immunologist received a Nobel Prize. (
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Scientists found that certain types of gut bacteria can protect other good bacteria from the toxic affects of cancer treatments and mitigate any harmful changes to the gut microbiome. (
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The filter tip will keep you fit Kiwis loved their smokes. Tobacco use climbed from 0.9 kilgrams a year per person in 1890 to almost 1.4kg a year in 1920. But ready-made cigarettes were slow starters, making up less than half of all tobacco use until 1955. By then, three out of four Kiwi men smoked and a third of women were puffing on that Virginia tobacco. While filters had already made an appearance, early models were mostly crude stubs designed to hold in that lucrative leaf.
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The modern cigarette filter, made from plastic fibres, has its origins in the 1950s.