Not exact matches
The most recent scare
on the topic came from an unreleased
study being conducted by the US National
Toxicology Program.
Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board
on Environmental
Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.
Studies and
Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No
studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.
studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»
Because companies have resources — reagents, proprietary mouse models, the ability to conduct
toxicology studies, and so
on — that even major research universities may lack, Giger says.
A
study in the journal Chemical Research in
Toxicology finds that mercury
on the surface of dental fillings slowly turns to an inert sulfide compound, which should keep the mercury from harming the nervous system.
And a recent
study in Regulatory
Toxicology and Pharmacology (vol 64, p 345) shows that animal tests missed 81 per cent of the serious side effects of 43 drugs that went
on to harm patients.
On small scales, substances often behave much differently than they do in their familiar forms, and
toxicology and safety
studies of these products are still in the early stages.
«It's important to understand the mechanisms of action of chemotherapy
on spermatogenesis to help clinicians make informed decisions
on adjusting treatment, reducing side effects, and better advising patients
on family planning,» says INRS's Dr. Géraldine Delbès, reproductive
toxicology specialist and the author in charge of this
study.
«Our results fly in the face of one of the basic tenets of
toxicology: that the dose makes the poison,» said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, an assistant professor of entomology at UMD and senior author
on the
study.
MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from
toxicology studies it carried out
on three strains of its modified maize.
In the new interdisciplinary work of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, with the collaboration of the Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy of the University of Barcelona (computational chemistry); Rocío Gámez - Montaño, from the University of Guanajato in Mexico (synthesis and mechanism model); John M. Kelly from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the United Kingdom (biological
studies on anti-parasite activity), and Diego Muñoz - Torrero from the Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and
Toxicology of the UAB, in the field of chemic compound pharmacy.
The change could muddy
toxicology studies that rely
on urine metabolites to measure how a drug gets broken down in the body.
Theodore Henry, a fish toxicologist at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, who has
studied fluoxetine's effects
on the sexual development of mosquito fish, says he is «very interested» in the latest findings published in the journal Aquatic
Toxicology.
The
study in question was published
on 19 September in Food and Chemical
Toxicology by molecular biologist Gilles - Eric Séralini and colleagues.
Before joining the Center, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Oregon Center for Research
on Occupational and Environmental
Toxicology,
studying the links between exposure to environmental toxicants and cancer.
The
study, which is financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Centre
on Endocrine Disrupters, is described in detail in a scientific article in the publication Society of
Toxicology: Multiple Endocrine Disrupting Effects in Rats Perinatally Exposed to Butylparaben (pdf).
First academic GLP center for performing biodistribution,
toxicology / tumorigenicity and validation
studies on gene and cell therapy products.
Smitha Pillai from the Eawag Department of Environmental
Toxicology and her colleagues from EPF Lausanne and ETH Zürich
studied the impact of various concentrations of waterborne silver ions
on the cells of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
A
study on Mercury's Link to Heart Disease Begins in Blood Vessel Walls in the International Journal of
Toxicology in 2007 found that mercury's link to heart disease can be traced to activation of an enzyme, phospholipase D (PLD), which triggers a process leading to plaque buildup in blood vessel walls.
The Journal of
Toxicology and Environmental Health did a
study on rats.
One
study published in the Journal of Analytical
Toxicology by researcher Bruce A. Goldberger of the University of Florida College of Medicine shed light
on the variability of caffeine content.
Dr. Eric Dunayer of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC), board certified by the American Board of
Toxicology, Inc. (DABT) and having a special interest in xylitol toxicosis, specifically states in a risk assessment paper written about C.E.T. AQUADENT Drinking Water Additive: Based
on published
studies of xylitol toxicity in dogs and the APCC's experience, proper use of this product (according to label directions) should not present a risk of hypoglycemia in dogs.
Coincidentally with the release of the National
Toxicology Program report, a new
study reports that researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and Guelph University exposed African Green monkeys
on the Island of St. Kitts to low levels of Bisphenol A for a month.
ESM 213 - Ecotoxicology [4 units] Stevenson Ecotoxicology is the
study of the effect of environmental contaminants
on living organisms - a merger of the
study of the environment (ecology) with the
study of interactions of chemicals with individual living organisms (
toxicology).
Dr. Volpe goes
on to summarize how the revolution in genomics technology can help environmental
toxicology study.
With reproductive rights being such a hot - button topic internationally, it's a wonder why more attention isn't paid to combating pollution
on this basis or why those responsible for perpetuating fossil - fuels aren't held culpable for endangering them.Male Infertility Caused by Air Pollution The first
study, conducted by urologist Jorge Hallak, coordinator of the Reproductive
Toxicology and Andrology, Hospital das Clinicas, examined 748 male workers who inhaled the air of major thoroughfares, according to a report from O Estado.
Oxybenzone, a UV - filtering chemical compound found in 3,500 brands of sunscreen worldwide, can be fatal to baby coral and damaging to adults in high concentrations, according to the
study published
on Tuesday in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and
Toxicology.
Her undergraduate, graduate
studies, and research focused
on macromolecular chemistry, environmental technology, and
toxicology.