“We kind of think of ourselves as the doctors of the environment,” says Upal Ghosh, a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In order to make a diagnosis, a doctor might study your symptoms, order tests, and review your medical ...
posing a grave threat to both human health and ecosystems. PFAS contamination arises from multiple sources, including industrial effluents, packaging, and product manufacturing, accumulating in plants and impacting the food chain. Elevated PFAS levels in water bodies ...
In the models for DNA methylation, parity, self-reported race (as Black or African American), and smoking status were considered true confounders. Marital status was not included in the final model, as this variable has not been traditionally associated with effects or differences in infant DNA ...
and internal laboratory tests on monkeys and rats had produced worrying results. In June 1978, 3M’s commercial chemical division sent a confidential letter to 3M’s general counsel and executives in the company’s medical and research departments. The company’s president of U.S. operations, Le...
Disease Control has recently started an investigation into how PFAS chemicals could potentially impact vaccine effectiveness coming on the heels of a Danish study finding people with higher levels of certain PFAS chemicals in their body had more than twice the chance of having extreme COVID sympto...
In EpiHealth, a web-based questionnaire about medical and family history and symptoms as well as lifestyle factors, including diet (e.g., fish intake), was filled in by all participants. Fish intake was converted to grams per day using the consumption frequencies of different kinds of fish ...
Hyperkinetic disorder requires the combination of inattentive and hyperactive symptoms and is thus similar to the ADHD combined subtype in the DSM system (Thapar and Cooper, 2016). We selected cases of ASD if they had registrations of “pervasive developmental disorders” according to ICD-10 codes ...
1 Similar increases in China, Italy, and Turkey have also been reported.2 Overdiagnosis, defined as the detection of cancers that would not have caused symptoms or affected mortality, has been suggested to explain a substantial part of this increase. However, evidence is growing to support a ...
but has nowhere pro- vided clarity about the evidence for health outcomes or approaches to risk reduction: "Care of a patient exposed to PFAS may be deter- mined based on the patient's overall risk factors, family health and environmental exposure his- tories, patient signs and symptoms, an...
Eight studies, all but two in European samples, assessed behavior with the SDQ, a survey instrument completed by a caregiver or teacher to screen for problems with the child’s emotional symptoms, conduct, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationships, and prosocial behavior. Four of these studies,...