The task force's final statement recommends a low-to-moderate dose statin for adults aged 40 to 75 with no history of cardiovascular disease who have a risk factor such as dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension or smoking plus a 10-year event risk of 10% or more. Benefit is less certain below that.
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Environment
Save the rusty patched bumblebee
A petition drive urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for the rusty patched bumblebee, whose abundance and distribution the agency estimates have fallen 91% since the mid-to-late 1990s. The comment docket closes in a week.
Disease
Stress-induced changes in maternal gut could negatively impact offspring for life
In mice, Ohio State researchers found that stress during pregnancy altered bacteria in the mothers' guts and placentas and in their female offspring's intestines into adulthood. Those offspring showed more anxiety and more trouble learning, alongside higher inflammation markers.
Disease
Study reveals role of spleen in prolonged anxiety after stress
Ohio State researchers report that in mice, white blood cells building up in the spleen after repeated social defeat appear to signal the brain and contribute to lasting anxiety, with the immune changes persisting nearly a month. The work was presented at Neuroscience 2016.
Environment
Residing near AM radio transmitters raises leukemia risk
A Korean study reports that children living within 2 km of an AM radio transmitter had double the odds of leukemia of all types compared with those more than 20 km away. Radiofrequency exposure from the transmitters was not associated with brain cancer or infantile cancer.
Environment
Smartphones can increase brain tumor risk
In a U.S. Toxicology Program study, rats exposed to GSM or CDMA radiofrequency radiation nine hours a day for two years developed malignant glioma, glial cell hyperplasia and Schwann cell tumors of the heart. Up to 3.3% of exposed males had glioma; no control rats did.
Environment
Mobile phones damage male reproductive system
A review of 27 studies led by B.J. Houston at the University of Newcastle found negative effects of mobile phone radiofrequency radiation on the male reproductive system in 21 of them, including declines in sperm mobility, more reactive oxygen species and DNA damage.
Disease
Could bacteria cause breast cancer?
A study in Applied and Environmental Microbiology found Lactococcus and Streptococcus at high levels in breast cancer tissue, and Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus and Bacillus mainly in tissue from women without cancer. Whether the bacteria cause the disease is unknown.
Lifestyle
Focusing on Pleasure of Eating Makes People Choose Smaller Portions
Writing in the Journal of Marketing Research, INSEAD's Pierre Chandon and UBC's Yann Cornil report that people chose smaller portions of chocolate cake when asked to vividly imagine the taste, smell and texture of similar desserts, and would pay more for them.
Drug
Chemotherapy may raise risk of leukemia, lymphoma
A 2016 report describes a patient who developed both secondary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and leukemia after breast cancer chemotherapy, adding lymphoma to earlier suggestions that adjuvant chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer may raise leukemia risk.
Environment
Night work not linked to breast cancer?
A review of 10 studies funded partly by Cancer Research UK claims night shift work does not raise breast cancer risk. The piece argues that finding is surprising given earlier evidence, IARC's 2007 classification of shift work as a probable carcinogen, and melatonin's role in cancer protection.
Drug
FDA warns against the use of homeopathic teething tablets and gels
FDA warned that homeopathic teething tablets and gels may pose a risk to infants and children, telling consumers to stop using them and dispose of any they have. The agency is analyzing reports of seizures and other adverse events and testing product samples.
Drug
Request to FDA to Ban Triclosan in Toothpaste (Toxic Carcinogen Already Banned in Soap)
The Cornucopia Institute has asked FDA to ban triclosan from toothpaste as it did for hand soaps on September 6, citing links to skin irritation, endocrine disruption, breast cancer, childhood allergies and weakened muscle function. It also published a toothpaste scorecard.
Drug
Drugs that cause liver injury or damage
The piece argues that Google Scholar searches make dietary supplements look like the main cause of liver injury, when many government-approved drugs can damage the liver too, and points readers to a U.S. government website with detailed reports on drugs, herbals and supplements.
Miscellaneous
FOX SOLUTIONS™ CREATES INDUSTRY SOLUTION WITH THE POUCH BAGGER
Fox Solutions released a stainless steel Pouch Bagger built for fresh produce. The servo-driven machine fills bags more precisely than belt- or gear-driven models, uses a rotary bag changer that handles several bags at once, and allows tool-free changeover between bag sizes.
Environment
Lead. PFOA. Atrazine - Newsletter 092216 from EWG
A fundraising letter from EWG citing its new analysis that cancer-causing chromium-6 contaminates water supplies serving more than 200 million Americans in all 50 states, and asking for donations to finish a national drinking water contaminant database.
Environment
NEW STUDY: Monsanto's Roundup Has Caused Massive Damage to Environment
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising email citing a University of Virginia study that ties GMO soybean adoption to higher herbicide use and a massive negative impact on the environment, and previewing the October Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague.
Drug
CT scan radiation increases cancer risk
People exposed to diagnostic CT scans had a 24 percent higher overall cancer risk over 9.5 years of follow-up than unexposed people, with higher doses tied to higher risk, a study reports. Exposure between ages one and four raised the risk 36 percent.
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