Hundreds of young children in the United States are expelled or suspended daily from child care and preschool classrooms at a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten through 12th-grade students. Despite recent efforts by policymakers to address what researchers describe as an almost two-decade crisis, disparities in who is expelled continue. Drawing on her […]
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Pesticide Exposure Raises Risk for Cardiovascular Disease Among Latino Workers
Dec. 12, 2018 – Latinos who are exposed to pesticides in their workplaces are twice as likely to have cardiovascular disease compared with Latinos who are not exposed to pesticides at work, according to a new study published in the journal Heart. The study looked at survey questionnaire responses from 7,404 employed Latinos ages 18 […]
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High Cognitive Ability Not a Safeguard From Conspiracies, Paranormal Beliefs
December 8, 2017 – The moon landing and global warming are hoaxes. The U.S. government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. A UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Is skepticism toward these kinds of unfounded beliefs just a matter of cognitive ability? Not according to new research by a University of Illinois at Chicago […]
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Poor overall environmental quality linked to elevated cancer rates
May 8, 2017 – Nationwide, counties with the poorest quality across five domains – air, water, land, the built environment and sociodemographic – had the highest incidence of cancer, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer. Poor air quality and factors of the built environment — such as the presence of major […]
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Ten million lives saved by 1962 vaccination breakthrough, study says
March 6, 2017 – Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A — and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases — were prevented in the U.S. alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination, researchers estimate. The study is published in AIMS Public Health. In 1963, vaccination against these […]
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Gluten-free diet may increase risk of arsenic, mercury exposure
Feb. 14, 2017 – People who eat a gluten-free diet may be at risk for increased exposure to arsenic and mercury – toxic metals that can lead to cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurological effects, according to a report in the journal Epidemiology. Gluten-free diets have become popular in the U.S., although less than 1 percent […]