News tagged with iodine levels
First evidence that a common pollutant may reduce iodine levels in breast milk
Oct 13, 2008 |
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Researchers in Texas are reporting the first evidence from human studies that perchlorate, a common pollutant increasingly found in food and water, may interfere with an infant's availability of iodine in breast milk. Iodine ...
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New clues to ozone depletion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2007 |
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Large quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals have been discovered in the Antarctic atmosphere by researchers from the University of Leeds, the University of East Anglia, and the British Antarctic Survey.
CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government ...
What's in your water?: Disinfectants create toxic by-products
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with ...
Water quality in orbit: Scientists test H2O disinfection on International Space Station
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months ...
Natural Gum Improves Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Gold nanoparticles have shown significant promise as agents to detect and treat cancer, but researchers have had difficulty creating gold nanoparticles that have suitable pharmacological properties for use in humans. A team ...
Bitter Taste Identifies Poisons in Foods
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center report that bitter taste perception of vegetables is influenced by an interaction between variants of taste genes and the presence of naturally-occurring toxins ...
New robot-assisted surgical method found successful for treatment of thyroid cancer
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Using a novel robot-assisted endoscopic technique, a team of surgeons at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea, has successfully treated 200 consecutive patients with thyroid cancer. The minimally invasive ...
School classroom air may be more polluted with ultrafine particles than outdoor air
Dec 22, 2009 |
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The air in some school classrooms may contain higher levels of extremely small particles of pollutants — easily inhaled deep into the lungs — than polluted outdoor air, scientists in Australia and Germany ...
Blood vessel inhibitor shows promise against metastatic thyroid cancer
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a research team led by investigators ...
Getting better visualization of joint cartilage through cationic CT contrast agents
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In its quest to find new strategies to treat osteoarthritis and other diseases, a Boston University-led research team has reported finding a new computer tomography contrast agent for visualizing the special distributions ...
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