Chemical Exposures. CDC Unveils Body Burden

Headliners: Chemical Exposures and Childhood Leukemia: Parental Chemical Exposures and ras Mutations in Children

Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) following radical prostatectomy is a well-recognized risk of the surgery. In most patients post-operative UI improves over time. To date, there is limited objective, quantitative data on the natural history of the resolution of post-prostatectomy UI. The purpose of this study was to define the natural history of post radical prostatectomy incontinence using...

Chemical Exposures: An Eye to the Sea

Environmental chemical exposures and human epigenetics.

Every year more than 13 million deaths worldwide are due to environmental pollutants, and approximately 24% of diseases are caused by environmental exposures that might be averted through preventive measures. Rapidly growing evidence has linked environmental pollutants with epigenetic variations, including changes in DNA methylation, histone modifications and microRNAs. Environ mental chemicals...

Chemical Exposures: Exploring Developmental Origins of Obesity

In the past 20 years, obesity rates across the developed world have skyrocketed. About one-third of U.S. adults are overweight and another third are obese, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Similarly, more than one-third of U.S. children are overweight or at risk for overweight. The result is a host of health problems for millions of people, incl...

CHEMICAL EXPOSURES: More Iodine or Less Perchlorate?

biofilm Dispersing Agent rejuvenates older Antibiotics An estimated 75% of bacterial infections involve biofilms, surface-attached colonies of bacteria that are protected by an extracellular matrix. Bacteria protected within biofilms are up to 1,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than if they were freefloating (planktonic), which severely complicates treatment options. Rather than searchin...