BASIC RESEARCH
Fathers-to-Be, Take Note
A wave of research shows how a pregnancy can be put at risk by drinking, diet
and exposures to toxins on the part of the male. by Anita Slomski
Kaylon Bruner-Tran was studying female mice whose mothers were exposed to toxins. She was interested in endometriosis, which meant she had no need for the male offspring. The professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center often wished there was more to learn about pregnancy from the males.
Bruner-Tran cracked open that research door. “It turns out that dads matter a great deal to the health of a pregnancy,” says Bruner-Tran, who found that the adult males exposed to toxins in utero had misshapen sperm swimming in circles. With 10% of babies in the United States born preterm, “improving the father’s health prior to conception may be the neglected piece of the puzzle to prevent pregnancy disorders,” she say
FDA weighs ban on menthol cigarettes, which disproportionately addict - and kill - black Americans
By The Washington Post
Laura Reiley
Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father s cigarettes, his aunt s and his grandmother s. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother s life short.
But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onstage. The prop master got him an e-cigarette with a blinking blue light at the end, wrapping it in rolling paper to look convincing. After everything he knew, after railing against smoking, he got hooked. Over-the-counter minty e-cigarettes became fat vape pens, vaping turned into menthol and clove tobacco cigarettes. He bummed Kools and Newports - two of the most popular menthol brands - off
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By LAURA REILEY | The Washington Post | Published: April 20, 2021 Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father s cigarettes, his aunt s and his grandmother s. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother s life short. But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onstage. The prop master got him an e-cigarette with a blinking blue light at the end, wrapping it in rolling paper to look convincing. After everything he knew, after railing against smoking, he got hooked. Over-the-counter minty e-cigarettes became fat vape pens, vaping turned into menthol and clove tobacco cigarettes. He bummed Kools and Newports two of the most popular menthol brands off the musicians he played with, off the former felons he knew, their ow
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