Childrens Health and the Environment
Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Gene identified for deadly childhood cancer.
Fifteen years of genetic sleuthing has finally paid off: Researchers have nailed the gene that appears to cause an inherited form of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that predominantly strikes children.
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Will California ban polycarbonate plastic baby bottles?
This week, the California Legislature will have the last chance of the two-year session to vote on two potentially ground-breaking bills that would reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Ad gives hot dogs a bad rap, critics say.
A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "Tthe doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer."
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Moldy modular classrooms at Greenwich school called safe.
The modular classrooms that Hamilton Avenue School students in Connecticut evacuated after the discovery of mold last spring are now safe enough to inhabit, an environmental consultant told concerned parents Tuesday night.
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EPA grant to retrofit school buses.
Protecting Missouri schoolchildren from diesel emissions will take the form of retrofitting 75 buses in the Springfield School District fleet and buses in the Rogersville School Districts fleet with emission control equipment.
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Teens influenced by home smoking bans.
Banning smoking in the home may help adolescents develop antismoking attitudes and impede early experimentation.
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EPA should eye Island Trees school for lead.
Sen. Charles Schumer asked the federal EPA yesterday to perform a thorough inspection of lead contamination at Island Trees High School in Levittown.
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Kids' vaccinations face risky resistance.
Parental suspicion of vaccinations is now so high that public health officials fear it could undermine one of the most important advances in medicine. Pockets of vaccine rejection can lead to outbreaks of childhood diseases once thought conquered.
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Caesarean babies 'at greater diabetes risk.'
Babies born by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher chance of becoming insulin- dependent diabetics in childhood, according to researchers.
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Strokes can strike the youngest.
An estimated one out of every 4,000 babies born in the United States will have a stroke before they're 28 days old--according to new guidelines issued by the American Heart Association on managing childhood stroke.
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Caesarean babies' 'diabetes risk.'
Children born by Caesarean section have a 20% higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes than those born naturally, says a report in PubMed journal.
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Study links preterm births, simmering infections.
Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.
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Obesity rates up in 37 states.
The obesity epidemic in America has gotten worse--not better--in the last year, despite public service campaigns warning about the health risks posed by carrying too much weight, a new report found.
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Strife over shots: Should our kids play together?
Karey Williams never thought a parenting decision would come between her and a good friend. But when she told the friend that she had stopped vaccinating her daughter at age 1, the relationship abruptly ended.
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Danger powder in Happy Meal.
A mother was horrified to find a dangerous chemical instead of a toy in her child's fast-food meal.
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Opening day delay?
An Island Trees, NY school board member is planning to ask the district to postpone the reopening of its high school next week until more complete testing and cleaning is done on what he says are potentially harmful lead levels in several areas of the school that could present a health risk.
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Vitamin D deficiency may lurk in babies.
Some experts fear that vitamin D deficiency, often asymptomatic, may be more common than realized, and that rickets — perceived as a 19th-century scourge wiped out by the fortification of milk — may go undetected.
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Children mine gold in Africa.
In Africa, boys as young as 12 and 13 risk mercury poisoning in mines to help provide for their families.
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One-third of schools built in air pollution danger zones.
More than 30 percent of U.S. public schools are within a quarter mile of major highways--which puts them in the "air pollution danger zone," according to a study.
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Many public schools in 'air pollution danger zone'.
One in three U.S. public schools are in the air pollution danger zone, according to new research from the University of Cincinnati.
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