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Birth defects
Five years before Charles Darwin’s death, the issue of human population growth, which had triggered Darwin’s thoughts on natural selection throughout other species, hit the news with some force. Thomas Malthus, almost a century earlier had raised the fear that uncontrolled human population growth was unsustainable and would be challenged. And in 1877, news was spreading around the world of appa...
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The International Clearing-house for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, formerly known as International Clearinghouse of Birth Defects Monitoring Systems, consists of 40 registries worldwide that collaborate in monitoring 40 types of birth defects. Clearinghouse activities include the sharing and joint monitoring of birth defect data, epidemiologic and public health research, and capacity...
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Sprayed extensively by the US military in Vietnam, Agent Orange contained a dioxin contaminant later found to be toxic to humans [7]. Despite reports by Vietnamese citizens and Vietnam War veterans of increased rates of stillbirths and birth defects [8] in their children, studies in the 1980s showed conflicting evidence for an association between the two. In 1996, the US National Academy of Sci...
متن کاملWorld birth defects day
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Birth Defects Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2472-1727
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23595