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Research led by UCLA links prenatal exposure to specific chemicals to higher rates of eye cancer.

Across the state, Kern County is known for agriculture and oil. However, local community organizers say these industries that helped the area financially grow are the same ones harming the health of those who live near them.

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 ...

Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research suggests that exposure during pregnancy to a wide variety of pesticides may lead to the development of central nervous system tumors during childhood. And the increased risk of these tumors – estimated as much as twice to 2.5 times higher for some pesticides – occurs even if the mother is not a farmworker, but lived as much as 2.5 miles (4000 meters) away from the field where the pesticides are sprayed, researchers found. “Exposure to certain pesticides, simply through residential proximity to agricultural applicati...