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featured Is it time to ban BPA? For now, it's down to you to choose

As acronyms go, BPA has something of a fuzzy warm feel to it; perhaps the Boston Philharmonic Association or the British Philosophical Assembly? But the claims and counterclaims swirling around...

On Jul 12, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

Dirty secrets of clean shop towels uncovered

Environmental and risk science consulting firm Gradient reports that clean shop towels could be a source of heavy metal exposure for manufacturing industry workers in the United States. It is...

On Jul 11, 2011 by Gracie Valena 0 Comments

Stopping smoking during pregnancy reduces health risks to babies

Professor Nick Macklon, a gynaecologist at the Princess Anne hospital in Southampton, UK, has told the annual conference at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology this week that...

On Jul 06, 2011 by Kieran Ball 0 Comments

City-dwellers prone to depression, memory problems, from pollution

It seems that the air breathed in by many city-dwellers could be responsible for those 'concrete-canyon blues' - with particulate-laden air being blamed for memory difficulties, slowness in learning and...

On Jul 05, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

'Map-reading' for male mice falls foul of BPA

A study looking into the potential effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) - a compound widely used in plastics, which has long-been associated with concerns over its estrogenic properties - has...

On Jun 27, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

Stress increases damaging effects of traffic pollution in children

A stressful home environment can amplify the damaging effects of air pollution in children, leading to greater lung damage. These are the findings of a research team from the Keck...

On Jun 25, 2011 by Kieran Ball 0 Comments

Rotavirus vaccine proves highly effective in reducing gastroenteritis in children

A report, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, by the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, shows that routine vaccination against rotavirus is hugely effective in reducing...

On Jun 24, 2011 by Kieran Ball 0 Comments

German E coli strain is a virulent blend of 2 other bugs

It may have been the bean sprouts that were the smoking gun, in the deadly E coli outbreak in Germany last month, but the lethal blow was delivered by a...

On Jun 23, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

Perils of a sunny lifestyle

A sunnier world encourages young people to expose more skin. This increases the risk of malignant melanoma skin cancer. The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently reported on two studies...

On Jun 22, 2011 by Michael Evans 0 Comments

Brain works differently 'far from the madding crowd'

Image Credit: © Paul Herbert It might be a 'concrete jungle' in the city, but the brains of urban-dwellers could do with more of the real thing, according to a...

On Jun 22, 2011 by Martin Leggett 0 Comments

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featured Is it time to ban BPA? For now, it's down to you to choose

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