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Bayer’s new Roundup products more toxic than prior formulations, report asserts

Environmental Health News

consumers contain chemicals that pose greater health risks to people than prior formulations suspected of causing cancer, according to an analysis by an environmental health advocacy group. New types of Roundup weed killing products marketed to U.S. The report was disputed by Bayer, which called the analysis “deeply flawed.”

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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

Fellow, recommends the 2023 Netflix mini-series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies. Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones / Krista Idowu Krista Idowu , an MPH student and a Boston University Martin Luther King, Jr. economy.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

October 25, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook After a brief uptick during the COVID-19 pandemic, the birth rate in the United States resumed its decades-long decline in 2023, dropping by three percent in 2023 to the lowest rate in a century.

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How the plastic industry undermines democracy by blocking bans

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Harris, an associate research professor at the University of Kansas, was participating in a global study , published in 2023, that looked for microplastics in lakes all over the world. These particles can enter our lungs and move throughout the body through the bloodstream.