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A Gift from the EPA
The percentage of people with asthma has doubled in the last decade, and quadrupled since 1973. Asthma has become the most common chronic medical condition in children. To help those with asthma, allergies, and other respiratory illnesses, a number...
1 year 19 weeks ago
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Iron and ADHD
Here's a very interesting study - the first to connect children's iron levels and ADHD. In Paris, France, 110 children from the same school district were referred to a university hospital between March 2002 and June 2003 to be evaluated for school-...
1 year 35 weeks ago
Screening to Prevent SIDS?
Italy is considering a new screening program for all newborn babies, based on the impressive initial results of a pilot study, suggesting this program could prevent the anguish of 30 sudden infant deaths (SIDS) in Italy each year. Babies in the...
2 years 1 week ago
Shampoo and Brain Cells
When Dr. Elias Aizenman declared that a common shampoo and ingredient might harm developing babies. brains, it triggered a flurry of news reports, many of them with enough information to alarm people, but not enough to help them decide what to do....
2 years 1 week ago
Stress, Asthma, and 6 Weeks Later!
Bouts of asthma come and go, brought on by various triggers. How might stressful life events affect asthma attacks? To find out, researchers tracked the frequency and severity of asthma attacks in school-aged children at a specialist asthma clinic...
2 years 1 week ago
A Child's Nightmare
More than a million children will go to bed tonight having lost their parents or having been made homeless by the devastating tsunami. And when they awaken, their communities in tatters, they will face the threat of diseases borne by quieter water....
2 years 2 weeks ago

EWG Report

Autism - Acknowledgements
Provided by: www.ewg.org We would like to thank S. Jill James, Paul Cutler, Stepan Melnyk, Stefanie Jernigan, Laurette Janak, David Gaylor and James Neubrander and their affiliated institutions the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,...
2 years 1 week ago
Autism - References
Provided by: www.ewg.org American Academy of Pediatrics, Center for Disease Control's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. 2004. Autism A.L.A.R.M. http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org Autism Society of America. 2003. Autism...
2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Conclusion: The Promise of Prevention and Treatment
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - New Evidence in Mercury-Autism Link (2)
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - New Evidence in Mercury-Autism Link
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Environmental Chemicals & Autism (2)
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Environmental Chemicals & Autism
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Oxygen Radicals & Autism
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Environmental Triggers & New Clues (2)
Provided by: www.ewg.org Part 1 (continued): Important New Finding offers clues to autism prevention and treatment In an exciting breakthrough, Dr. Jill James of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine has documented a unique metabolic...
2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Environmental Triggers & New Clues
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Mercury Primer
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Executive Summary - Recommendations
Provided by: www.ewg.org Summary Background Findings Recommendations Recommendations
2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Executive Summary - Findings
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Executive Summary - Background
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2 years 1 week ago
Autism - Executive Summary
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2 years 1 week ago