Brain development can be damaged by mercury and other environmental chemicals. This is a lecture by Professor Philippe Grandjean who works at the University of Southern Denmark and Harvard School of Public Health in the United States. He tells in the presentation that there are 201 environmental chemicals currently identified as harmful for the brain. …
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Antibiotics During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Epilepsy in Children
foodconsumer.org – Prenatal antibiotics linked to high risk of epilepsyMonday Oct 22, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) — A new study in Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology suggests that taking cystitis antibiotics during pregnancy increases risk of epilepsy in children. J. E. Miller of School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA and colleagues conducted the study …
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Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child
From the makers of the award-winning documentaries Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging and The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? comes a searing new documentary (2010), exposing how devastating—and deadly—psychiatric drugs can be for children and families. Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face …
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked With Airway Changes In Children With Severe Asthma
Children with severe therapy-resistant asthma (STRA) may have poorer lung function and worse symptoms compared to children with moderate asthma, due to lower levels of vitamin D in their blood, according to researchers in London. Lower levels of vitamin D may cause structural changes in the airway muscles of children with STRA, making breathing more …
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Children With Autism And Gastrointestinal Symptoms Have Altered Digestive Genes
These changes may also affect the mix of bacteria present in the digestive tract Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and at the Harvard Medical School report that children with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances have altered expression of genes involved in digestion. These variations …
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Mother’s Diet Influences Baby’s Allergies — New Research
A possible link between what a mother eats during pregnancy and the risk of her child developing allergies has been identified in new research published in this month’s The Journal of Physiology. The research found that if a mother’s diet contains a certain group of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) – such as those found in fish, …
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Generation RX
For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children. Generation RX (2008) presents “the rest of the story” and unveils how this era of unprecedented change in Western culture really occurred — and what price has been paid by our society. International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller …
Vitamin A Supplements For Children Could Save 600,000 Lives A Year
Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published on bmj.com. The researchers argue that the effectiveness of vitamin A supplementation is now so well-established that further trials would be unethical, and they urge policymakers to provide supplements for all children at risk …
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Manganese In Drinking Water: Study Suggests Adverse Effects On Children’s Intellectual Abilities
A team of researchers recently completed a study showing that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures. A team of researchers led by Maryse Bouchard, adjunct professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Health, Environment and Society (CINBIOSE) …
Mercury and Acrodynia
The etiology of Acrodynia (also know as Pink Disease) was unknown for more than 100 years, before the role of mercury as the primary source of this disease was pointed. The almost forgotten disease, mostly affecting infants and young children, is probably the best studied effect of human mercury poisoning. This history has been forgotten …