«New and more effective ways have been developed to test
the effects of chemicals on humans, eliminating the need for animal testing... [These] are generally less expensive and less time - consuming than their animal - based counterparts, which sometimes take months or years to conduct, at costs of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many consumers, for instance, have become aware of the unhealthy
effects of chemicals on their bodies and environments, and so they have begun to seek alternatives, not just for themselves, but also their pets.
In the long term, to fully replace the Hershberger rat assay, EPA researchers are developing an in vitro assay that simulates
the effects of chemicals on the most sensitive of those five tissues, prostate tissue.
The scientists then integrated the results into a computational model that predicts
the effects of chemicals on the ER pathway.
New research from a team including Carnegie's Daniel Gorelick and Marnie Halpern on
the effects of these chemicals on zebrafish shows that embryonic heart valves could be particularly in danger.
The poor state of Vietnamese health services means that there is little systematic data on the lingering
effects of these chemicals on the population.
This gave us the tools to explore
the effects of chemicals on children.
Concern is mounting among physicians, health professionals, environmental advocacy groups, public safety officials, as well as consumers because of the possible
effects of these chemicals on our children.
I always try to buy and provide my child with organic solids because I am concerned with the potential
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Strong concerns have been voiced from some quarters over its estrogenic properties and
the effects of the chemical on the human reproductive system.
The effect of these chemicals on brain growth (both pre - and postnatally) is an important issue of concern.
Such studies will not detect the potential
effects of a chemical on reproductive aging.
The effect of these chemicals on our cats is yet to be quantified.
Not exact matches
Animal studies
of the
chemical have found it has no health
effects on reproduction or development at doses up to at least 100 mg per kg
of body - weight per day.
An increase, that is, until one tallies the current costs
of stripping soil, pouring
on chemicals and ingesting hormones, antibiotics and fat, and the
effects of irradiation.
She looks up the
chemical content
of drinking water and checks
on the
effects of lead paint (her husband is a house painter and artist).
To quote the researchers: «Thus, modification
of this PIP2 regulatory domain by genetic, biochemical, or pharmacological mechanisms may have profound
effects on sensitivity
of primary afferent nerve fibers to
chemical and thermal stimuli under normal or pathological conditions.»
That could have a range
of consequences, including
effects on blood sugar, regulation
of body weight, inflammatory bowel disease, and how drugs and other
chemicals are absorbed and metabolized by the body.
A prime example
of the potential power
of these oft - forgotten
chemicals can be seen if we examine some
of the research surround the
effects of whey protein
on cancer.
Researchers have also evaluated the
effect of chemicals in stevia
on blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
Switching from sugar to
chemical sweeteners like aspartame or sucralose will not have the same benefit as these sweeteners have quite a destructive
effect on the health
of our gut microbiome and will likely contribute to unwanted microbial growth.
France's health authority has released an alarming report
on the potentially toxic
effects of a controversial industrial
chemical used in food packaging
on pregnant women and their unborn children.
She was immediately attracted to the mysteries
of toxic plastics and their
effect on children and quickly learned that avoiding endocrine - disrupting
chemical in common household products can be overwhelming.
Ilet, KF and 4 other scientists conducted a study
on the
effects of buprenorphine and norbuprenorphine
on babies who received the
chemicals through breast milk.
Chemicals with estrogenic activity «have been reported to have potential adverse health
effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor
of neurobiology at the University
of Texas at Austin who has served
on many National Institutes
of Health panels.
These types
of chemicals have reportedly had health
effects on humans, specifically in the fetal and infant states.
Years
of exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, paint strippers and other
chemicals could be having more subtle
effects on the way in which genes within the sperm are tagged and used later
on.
In light
of Father's Day, I wanted to share some information
on the harmful
effects that could be caused by endocrine disrupting
chemicals, or EDCs, and how exposure could be negatively affecting the men in our lives.
Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health
effects of BPA based
on recent findings indicating that a new assessment
of this ubiquitous
chemical is now needed.
Chemical changes inside
of the potential mom have an
effect on the sperm.
Meanwhile, an independent group
of 38 BPA researchers who were not part
of the panel but are considered experts
on the
chemical issued their own warning in the journal Reproductive Toxicology: Very low levels
of exposure to the
chemical can potentially pose adverse health
effects, especially to a fetus.
More and more research is being done
on the health
effects of chemicals that crib mattresses are manufactured with.
Environmental
chemical exposure can be the result
of diverse conditions including: workplace conditions (where you are exposed to a high level
of chemicals on a daily basis), living near farmland (where pesticides are sprayed), exposure to high traffic areas, or even the cumulative
effects of everyday common
chemicals in the household.
BPA is a
chemical that is used to make plastic hard, and it is linked to a number
of bad
effects on people including cancer, neurological disorders, and reduced fertility.
Concerns about the harmful health
effects chemicals can have, especially
on children, and a realization that cleaners with reduced amounts
of potentially dangerous ingredients are increasingly available, prompted the... [Read more...]
But let's consider this... Little bodies are very susceptible to pesticides and the consumption
of pesticides and other
chemicals can have a drastic
effect on their health.
Personally, after the amount
of research I've done just
on the topic
of pregnancy and TOPICAL
chemicals, oils, and other ingredients in health and beauty products, I remain incredibly skeptical
of the idea that enough
of the acid inside a stone could really enter a baby's bloodstream in amounts that would have a real, profound
effect on pain.
No studies have been done
on the long - term
effects of this
chemical being in contact with a baby's reproductive organs 24 hours a day for upwards
of two years.
Furthermore, many
of the common gifts will be plastic toys are full
of toxins and
chemicals that have harmful
effects on children and plastic breaks quite easily, then because they're non-recyclable, they end up in landfills.
The
chemical war against cholesterol has been based
on statistical deception and the active covering up
of over 300 adverse health
effects they are known to produce.
Meat processing methods such as curing, smoking or cooking can result in the formation
of potentially cancer - causing (carcinogenic)
chemicals that can have a negative
effect on an individual's health, according to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School
of Public Health.
Speakers will discuss the contributions
of the environmental and health communities to mitigating the
effects of the release
of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, recognizing that the role
of these disciplines varies based
on the agent and release method.
Chlordane, toxaphene, DDT and PCBs are all examples
of persistent organic pollutants —
chemicals that were once widely used in agriculture and manufacturing (or accidentally produced through industrial processes or combustion) but are now banned due to their adverse
effects on human health and the environment.
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The invention
of synthetic fertilizer, where nitrogen is taken from an inert
chemical form in the air and turned into ammonia, has had a profound
effect on nitrogen cycling.
«The radical - pair mechanism
of magnetoreception is still just a hypothesis, and arguably the best evidence we have for it so far is the
effect of time - dependent radiofrequency magnetic fields
on the ability
of migratory birds to detect the direction
of the Earth's magnetic field,» says senior author Peter Hore, an Oxford biophysical chemist specializing in magnetic influences
on chemical reactions.
Suspecting a link between these
effects and a
chemical on which he had been working — initially synthesized in 1938 and then put aside — the following Monday he ingested an extremely small amount
of the
chemical: 250 micrograms (0.25 mg).
The researchers also investigated the
effects of NMP
on honeybee larvae by adding seven concentrations
of the
chemical to a pollen - derived, royal jelly diet.
Scientists have recently used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) to evaluate the
effects of various sources
of supplemental nitrogen fertilizer
on the
chemical composition
of soil organic matter.
All
of a sudden we had the beginnings
of a map, and we could start to explore the
effects of a whole range
of chemicals on children.