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The pesticide, now banned, is so stable it continues to poison the environment and move up the food chain. Significant amounts of DDT-related compounds are still accumulating in Southern California dolphins.
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Dr. Jaime Butler-Dawson, from the Center for Health, Work, & Environment (CHWE) within the Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH), has received a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. The three-year K01 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will provides support to examine the environmental determinants of kidney injury in female sugarcane workers and female community members in Guatemala.
Dr. Butler-Dawson is a research instructor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) at the ColoradoSPH and is a founding member of the Climate, Work and Health Initiative. Her new study is part of CHWE s efforts to identify and prevent exposures that may contribute to the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) in Central America.
May 21, 2021 06:00 PM EDT
According to a new University of Michigan study, exposure to a chemical discovered in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is greatly linked to preterm births.
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Exposure to Glyphosate
The study, released in Environmental Health Perspectives, discovered that the appearance of the chemical in the urine of women in late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for untimely birth, while the connection was inconsistent or ineffective during the early stage of the pregnancy.
Professor of environmental health sciences and also senior associate dean for research at the U-M School of Public Health, senior author John Meeker said: Since many people are prone to some level of glyphosate and may not even be aware of it, if our outcomes reflect true connection, then the public health implications could be massive. Monica Silver - first author led the study while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sch