Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: Current Issues Volume 74, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 903 – 916 Author: Gayle DeLonga DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2011.573736 Abstract The reason for the rapid rise of autism in the United States that began in the 1990s is a mystery. Although individuals probably have a genetic predisposition to develop autism, […]
Archives for June 2011
In shift, feds target execs in healthcare fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. The new tactic is raising the anxiety level — and risks — for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains […]
Mobile phones are as cancerous as HPV, engine exhaust, says WHO
By Tim Conneally The World Health Organization on Tuesday reclassified radio frequency electromagnetic fields generated by radio, television and wireless telecommunications as being possibly carcinogenic to humans. A working group for The International Agency for Research on Cancer met over the last four days in May to assess and classify RF electromagnetic fields as a […]
Question of Ethics
By T.K. Rajalakshmi The effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cervical cancer was tested without proper consent from vulnerable subjects. EARLY last year, an ambitious, population-based, post-licensure study of the effectiveness of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to prevent cervical cancer conducted in selected districts of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat by PATH, an international […]
Professor Ian Frazer takes Australian science to South-East-Asia
By Elspeth Muir Co-creator of the cervical cancer vaccine Professor Ian Frazer has just finished a two-and-a-half-week tour of South-East Asia in an effort to promote and showcase Australian scientific research. Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the diplomacy tour included stops in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Vietnam and the Philippines. “This […]