In 119 patients whose tumors were surgically removed, Korean researchers found cell phone use was positively associated with vestibular schwannoma incidence and tumor volume, and tumors were 4.5 times more likely on the phone side. They concluded phone use may affect tumor growth.
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Environment
Mobile phone radiation harms your brain
A study in Neurological Research exposed young rats to 900 MHz phone radiation four hours a day for 15 days. Compared with controls they showed more anxiety and poorer learning, lower antioxidant enzyme levels, and more lipid peroxidation and reactive oxygen species.
Environment
Flame retardant exposure linked to lower IQs -- study
Researchers measured PBDE flame retardants in 309 U.S. women at 16 weeks of pregnancy and followed their children to age five. A tenfold rise in PBDE concentration was associated with a 4.5-point IQ decrement and greater hyperactivity.
Environment
Indoor Tanning Raises Risk of Melanoma: FDA Strengthens Warnings for Sunlamp Products
The FDA is tightening its rules for sunlamp products, requiring a visible black-box warning that they should not be used by anyone under 18. The agency cites evidence that UV damage accumulates and that indoor tanning raises melanoma risk by 59 percent, rising with each use.
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Skin Cancer Patients Have More Treatment Options
Since 2011 the FDA has approved five drug treatments for melanoma and other skin cancers. Before that, FDA oncologist Patricia Keegan says, the handful of approved chemotherapy drugs worked in fewer than 15 percent of patients. NCI estimated 76,100 new melanoma cases in 2014.
Agriculture
National conference on agricultural waste and environmental quality seeks input
The “From Waste to Worth” conference on agricultural waste and environmental quality, set for March 30 to April 1, 2015, is taking abstracts, posters and workshop ideas from farmers and agribusinesses as well as scientists until Sept. 15, 2014. Equine waste gets special emphasis.
Agriculture
Pig Breed Serves as Ideal Model for Human Obesity Research
USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists report the Ossabaw pig works well as a model for human obesity research. Pigs fed a high-fat diet showed changes in lipid metabolites in liver, pancreas, brain and intestine, though some tissue changes did not show up in urine or plasma.
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Mobile phones linked to brain cancer - new study
A French case-control study of 253 people with glioma, 194 with meningioma and 892 matched controls found those logging more than 896 hours of mobile phone use were 189 and 157 percent more likely to have gliomas and meningiomas. The authors call the association possible.
Agriculture
From Bad to Worse: Scientists Confirm Worms Are Eating Slug Bait
USDA scientists watching grass seed fields at night confirmed earthworms are taking the slug bait. Half the pellets vanished in under 2.5 days; worms ate 20 percent on the spot and hauled the rest into their burrows, preferring the cheaper metaldehyde and iron pellets.
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Thousands Sent to Emergency Room by Preventable Pool Chemical Injuries
Pool chemicals sent nearly 5,000 people to emergency rooms in 2012, the CDC reported; nearly half were children and teenagers and more than a third of the injuries happened at home. CDC advises never mixing chemicals and always adding chemicals to water, not water to chemicals.
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Chemicals that increase breast cancer risk - part 1
A review names chemicals associated with higher breast cancer risk, beginning with 1,3-butadiene, absorbed mainly from cigarette smoke, car exhaust and gasoline fumes, and acrylamide, formed in fried and baked foods. Most of the evidence comes from rodent rather than human studies.
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Just launched: EWG's Sun Safety Campaign
EWG launched a Sun Safety campaign with dermatologists and nearly 20 sunscreen makers, noting that more than 2 million Americans develop skin cancer each year and fewer than one in three adults report using sunscreen frequently.
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Tobacco smoking raises risk of cervical cancer
Following 308,036 women in the EPIC study for nine years, researchers found smoking linked to roughly double the risk of both CIN3/carcinoma in situ and invasive cervical cancer, holding even after adjustment for HPV, chlamydia and HHV-2 serostatus. Quitting was tied to halved risk.
Agriculture
Neonicotinoids again linked to collapse of honey bee colonies
A Harvard School of Public Health study in the Bulletin of Insectology found low doses of imidacloprid and clothianidin significantly harmed colonies over winter, worse in colder ones. Affected hives had pathogen levels much like surviving controls, pointing away from mites and parasites.
Environment
The most comprehensive look yet at climate change
John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, announces the third National Climate Assessment, built on four years of work by hundreds of experts. He says heat waves, droughts, downpours and floods have grown more frequent or intense in many regions.
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How to Prevent the Spread of Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Your Kitchen
Mercola cites CDC figures that two million Americans get antibiotic-resistant infections each year and at least 23,000 die, and argues that routine antibiotic use on factory farms drives the problem: an estimated 80 percent of US antibiotics end up in livestock.
Agriculture
Online price basis tool for agricultural producers available from AgriLife Extension
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension has put a free tool at basis.tamu.edu listing price basis, the gap between local cash and futures prices, for corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans and wheat by Texas district. Economist Mark Welch says futures prices may not reflect what a producer receives.
Agriculture
Disinfecting Honey Comb with Ozone
Rosalind James's ARS team reported that ozone at 215 to 430 ppm killed every life stage of the greater wax moth in honeycombs, and higher doses destroyed chalkbrood spores. A second paper looks at whether ozone can also cut pesticide levels in combs.
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