Nothing good comes from exposure to lead

" In this population of Mexican children, current blood lead level among children with low exposure (< 5µg/dL) was positively associ...

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Organic diet and urinary pesticide concentrations

" Eating Organic Lowers Pesticide Levels in Children " went the headline reporting on the small study by Asa Bradman and colleague...

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Adult outcomes following childhood psychiatric problems

A long quote to begin: " If the goal of public health efforts is to increase opportunity and optimal outcomes, and to reduce distress, ...

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Prenatal paracetamol exposure and offspring outcome

Pain. Nobody particularly likes it, but with the pharmaceutical arsenal of pain relief medication at our disposal these days, many cases of...

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Pregnancy antiepileptic use and offspring autistic traits

I'm a little bit slow in arriving at the paper by Gyri Veiby and colleagues * reporting a connection between maternal antiepileptic use ...

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Fatty acids and reading ability

Although now only available to subscribers, a short while back I was very peripherally involved in helping to write an article on the scienc...

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