To obtain that kind of large dataset, Schraw and his colleagues collected
data from birth defect and cancer registries in Texas, Michigan, Arkansas, and North Carolina for the years 1992 - 2013.
Those differences may underlie a wide swath of diseases,
from the birth defect known as spina bifida to the dementia that often comes with old age.
Those numbers weren't significantly different
from the birth defect rate of babies whose mothers had not taken an antipsychotic drug — 3.27 percent.
From birth defects surrounding mountaintop removal coal mines, to the subsequent attempts to pass these same issues off on in - breeding, we've had some prime examples of community betrayal at the hands of the coal industry here in the States.
When added to the inefficiency of our reporting system, this means that we actually have records of only from four (based on the 12.1 per cent rate of reporting found in the New York study) to nine (based on the 27.9 per cent accuracy of reporting found in the Iowa study) out of every 100 children
suffering from birth defects.
Her owners, both UC Davis veterinarians, brought her to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital's Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service, where she was diagnosed with kidney failure and an obstruction in her right ureter (the tube that takes urine from the kidney to the bladder)
from a birth defect.
There is mounting evidence that many illnesses suffered by animals and humans (
from birth defects and cancer to autism and Alzheimer's disease) are the result of spraying lawns and homes with indiscriminate toxins applied to home and commercial environments.