Hormonal Disruption Articles & Analysis
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Triclosan’s efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, the risk it poses for the development of antibiotic resistance, and its possible role in disrupted hormone development remain controversial, and additional studies are currently being carried out in an attempt to assess the safety of the chemical, and to understand its potential effects on organisms and ...
EPA is proposing to use ground-breaking tools developed in the ToxCast program to improve testing for chemicals that have the potential to disrupt hormone function in the human body. EPA uses automated chemical screening technologies to rapidly and simultaneously perform tests on thousands of chemicals and feed the results into computational models to predict ...
Tukey, Hammock and their research colleagues, including Mei-Fei Yueh of UC San Diego, found that triclosan disrupted liver integrity and compromised liver function in mice. The mice exposed to triclosan for six months (roughly equivalent to 18 human years) were more susceptible to chemical-induced liver tumors. ...
Synthetic oestrogens in wastewater from contraceptive pills can have effects on fish reproduction and survival that worsen over several generations, new research has found. The study suggests that some fish populations may not be able to recover from levels of oestrogen pollution found in many freshwater environments. Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly under threat from both climate change ...
The UC Davis research team has previously linked triclosan to other potentially harmful health effects, including disruption of reproductive hormone activity and of cell signaling in the brain. ...
Chemicals which disrupt the hormone system – also known as 'endocrine disrupting chemicals' (EDCs) – may be a contributing factor behind the significant increases in cancers, diabetes and obesity, falling fertility, and an increased number of neurological development problems in both humans and animals, according to a review of recent ...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and ...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and ...
EPA has issued the first list of pesticides to be screened for possibly disrupting the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction. ...
The report by UK researchers summarises the evidence for the link between breast cancer and environmental influences. Exposure to hormone-disruptive chemicals, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs, is thought to be a key factor, but there are other relevant chemicals found in the environment, such as pesticides and phthalates (widely ...
Some organophosphates also cause hormone disruption, birth defects, and cancer. 'Farmworkers and people living in and near agricultural regions, especially children, are at great risk of neurological and developmental damage due to exposure to these toxins,' said Dr. ...