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One cold day in January, somebody spray-painted names on steel beams in an ongoing construction site as a group of people watched from the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Bridge. No, it’s not a case of vandalism. The sprayer was an iron-worker and among his audience were a lot of children. The scene describe happened on January 29 [...]
For five days this fall, USA TODAY teamed with scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland to analyze 40 toxic chemicals in the air near America’s schools. Although the government checks the quantity of 6 smog-producing chemicals in the air, many high-risk area are not monitored, and only 3% of America’s schools [...]
Health conditions can range from the simply annoying to the potentially fatal. But it seems there are upsides to certain conditions that give us some food for thought. As in the case of allergies and gestational hypertension.
Allergies
This study by Cornell University researchers suggests that our annoying allergies, previously thought to be due to a malfunctioning [...]
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And here is another one of those association studies that can tell your risk for breast cancer. This time it’s size at birth that predicts your susceptibility to breast cancer.
By size, they refer to the length and weight at birth, as well as the head circumference. The data came from 32 [...]
Thousands of children die of cancer every year. It is only appropriate that a month should be dedicated to increasing awareness of these diseases.
In the US, September is the month of Childhood Cancer Awareness. The objective of this initiative is “to spotlight childhood cancer and survivorship issues related to childhood cancer nationally.”
The organization CureSearch formed [...]
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