endocrine-disruptors
2 stories tagged "endocrine-disruptors"
Brain & Aging
Banned in 1979, 'Legacy' PCBs Are Now Tied to Shorter Telomeres in Children
Dioxin-like PCBs left American factories decades ago and never left children's bodies. New research traces how they may erode the protective caps on kids' chromosomes, and may help explain lower cognitive scores.
InvestigationsBPA Sits in 90% of Us. The Cancer Studies Sample It With a Method That Was Never Going to Find Anything.
Bisphenol A shows up in more than nine of ten Americans, yet California's reviewers just called the cancer evidence 'inadequate,' because the studies measure a chemical the body clears in hours from a single urine sample.