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[To view this article on Newsweek, click here.] A large study that looked at data from nearly every general medical practice in England suggests that water fluoridation may increase the risk of developing hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid. This condition, in which the thyroid gland doesn’t produce enough hormones, is associated with symptoms such as fatigue, […]
Summary Apple iPhones contain essential components that are enabled by rare earth elements. Some of these metals are produced exclusively in China, which means Apple is dependent on Chinese mining, processing and exports that are out of its control. There is a very real risk that Apple or its suppliers will not be able to […]
You come into the house, parched from working outside in your garden. Turning on the tap, you wait for the water to get cooler, and then fill a tall glass. Drinking it all down, you feel quenched and satiated. However, could that seemingly good-tasting, fine-smelling water be hiding toxic, unhealthy and environmentally unsafe ingredients? The […]
A demonstrator outside Portland City Hall. (Ross William Hamilton/AP) Joel Achenbach is a science reporter at The Post. A version of this essay appears on the cover of National Geographic’s March issue. There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” in which Jack D. Ripper, an American general who’s gone rogue and ordered […]
Aluminum is a known neurotoxin, and according to Professor Christopher Exley of Keele University, aluminum-containing products are likely fueling the rise in Alzheimer’s disease.1 In an article published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology,2 he writes: “We are all accumulating a known neurotoxin in our brain from our conception to our death. The presence of […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that the major chemical companies it has partnered with are on track to phase out production of perfluorinated chemicals (PFC) in America by the end of 2015. These eight firms alone are responsible for the vast majority of all the PFCs produced globally and, to date, they have […]
The author, Arthur L. Caplan, is the director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health. Amateurs and hucksters are not the only people telling parents not to vaccinate their children. Unfortunately some doctors — men and women sworn to the Hippocratic Oath — are purveying junk science. […]
Perfluorinated compounds, such as perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), help firefighting foams rapidly flow over flaming liquids such as gasoline and jet fuel, cooling and quenching fires. But despite environmental scientists’ concerns about these possibly toxic compounds accumulating in wildlife and lurking in firefighters’ blood, researchers don’t know the identity of many of the chemicals in the […]
Join us Wednesday, February 4, 2015; 9:00 am Alaska Time (10:00 am Pacific; 1:00 pm Eastern) Sign Up Resources Flyer ABOUT THE CALL: The brain is an extremely complex organ that has to undergo a variety of developmental stages in a particular sequence and at a particular time to develop properly. What happens when the developing […]
Affirming a victory for Nestle, Gerber, and The Dannon Company, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal district court judge that a challenge to the companies’ labels was preempted by federal law. Michelle Nemphos filed a putative class action alleging that the defendants violated Maryland state law by deceptively advertising their […]