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Learning and Developmental
Disabilities and Toxic Chemical Exposure: What’s the Connection?
http://www.ldaofmichigan.org/EnvironmentLDConnectionBrochure.pdf
Download our latest brochure to learn...What Role Do Toxic
Chemicals Play in Child Development? Which Chemicals Should I Be
Most Concerned About? and How Can We Protect Our Children From Toxic
Chemicals?
Top Topics of 2011: A Nuclear
Meltdown, Fracas Over Fracking and Keystone, BPA Beyond Bottles
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2011/2011-top-stories
Environmental Health News' roundup of the most important and
intriguing topics of 2011 includes issues that exploded onto the
media scene as well as those that left their mark quietly. Over the
year, the EHN team hand-selected 56,888 articles from media around
the world on a wide variety of environmental topics.
Forget the Prius. The Future of
Electric is the School Bus
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577018471878074352.html
As long as Americans love to drive far and fast, electric cars
may never be the perfect answer to the country's green
transportation needs. But the routine runs of electric school buses
are another thing altogether. Bus maker Trans Tech Bus this year
said it would start making an electric school bus in a partnership
with Smith Electric Vehicles. The eTrans bus is one of a new
generation of zero-emission electric and hybrid-electric models that
are slowly making their way to school districts around the county.
It's hard to imagine the bulky, boxy school bus at the forefront of
clean-energy ...
A Thing or Two About Twins...and the
Environment
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/twins/miller-text
To biomedical researchers all over the world, twins offer a
precious opportunity to untangle the influence of genes and the
environment—of nature and nurture. Because identical twins come from
a single fertilized egg that splits in two, they share virtually the
same genetic code. Any differences between them—one twin having
younger looking skin, for example—must be due to environmental
factors.
Babies May be Getting Bigger, But
Questions Remain
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/02/us-babies-idUSTRE8010F520120102
The weights and lengths of babies born in southwestern Ohio have
been growing in recent decades, a new study found, but no link to
obesity later in childhood was seen.
Children Feeling the Effects of
2nd-hand Smoke
http://enidnews.com/localnews/x191085303/Children-feeling-the-effects-of-2nd-hand-smoke
In years past it was common for tobacco smoke to fill the air of
restaurants, places of business and most public spaces. As recently
as 1991, 88 percent of American non-smokers experienced measurable
exposure to second-hand smoke, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hopkins to Study Genetics of Asthma
in African-Americans
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-asthma-genome-20111229,0,5056539.story
Johns Hopkins researchers, in the largest study to date, will map
the genetic code for asthma in people of African descent in hopes of
better understanding why the disease and other allergy-related
ailments disproportionately afflict that population. Until now, the
link between genetics and asthma has been studied using mostly men
and women of white European descent. The Hopkins researchers
announced Thursday that they will leverage data from other genome
projects to take the first wide-scale look at how hereditary factors
affect African-Americans who have the disease, which causes wheezing
and difficulty breathing, and which can lead to death if not
treated.
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