Is a gene test right for you?
Lead Exposure May Age Brains Faster
Toxins may be linked to early puberty
Health Focus: Hazardous Toxins in Electronics |
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The eternal search to live longer,
healthier lives is driving technology faster every
day, with advances in diagnosing and treating many
diseases.
One of the newest technologies is personal genome
testing, marketed directly to consumers by labs
that collect, test, analyze and report people's
individual genetic information - at about $1,000
a pop. At the end of 2007, three Web sites - 23andme.com,
navigenics.com and decodeme.com - were selling
genome-testing packages to people who wanted them,
sidestepping doctors and insurance companies...
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It’s been long suspected
that besides genetics, there may be some environmental
causes behind the rising numbers of Alzheimer’s
cases in the industrialized world.
Johns Hopkins University is looking at exposure
to lead as a factor that may possibly speed up
the aging of the brain, even if that lead exposure
happened decades earlier... (View
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Researchers in Italy suggest
environmental toxins may be linked to areas where
girls have a high incidence of early puberty.
The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics,
looked at whether the naturally occurring mycoestrogen
zearalenone, or ZEA, produced by the Fusarium
fungus species, may be linked to early onset of
puberty, known as central precocious puberty...
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We all use computers, printers,
cell phones, DVD players and TVs, but did you
know that these electronics could be harmful to
our health? Mercury, lead, barium, chromium and
cadmium are just a few of the hazardous and toxic
elements found in our electronics.
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