Friday, February 29, 2008

EI News, Science, & Links Summary for the W/E 2/29/2008

February 29, 2008

Groups Urge a Moratorium on City Use of Artificial Turf
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/nyregion/29turf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

The link between mercury and autism
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/the-link-between-mercury-and-autism-1302135.html

Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-epa29feb29,0,6191299.story

Should Public Health Officials Be Disqualified While "Experts" With
Corporate Ties Remain?
http://www.ewg.org/node/26073

February 28, 2008

New Material Is Capable Of Eliminating Pollutants By The Hydrocarbon
Industry
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226112755.htm

Parents, students, staff share health fears at Corona
http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/0228tr-corona0229.html

Rare skin condition means teenager is allergic to the 21st century
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/28/i-m-allergic-to-the-21st-century-89520-20334012/

Squiggly Fluorescent Bulbs can be Dangerous
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/health/16088317.html

The 13-year-old girl who is allergic to almost everything
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=520489&in_page_id=1799

February 27, 2008

Kids vaccine linked to fever, seizures
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/5576512.html

Study: Contaminant levels high in parks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_sc/park_contamination

Supreme Court Shields Medical Device Manufacturers from Consumer Lawsuits
http://www.naturalnews.com/022713.html

Eat Fruits -- Oh, Wait, Not Those Fruits
http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1134/news_detail.asp

The Smallest of Pollutants Are Linked to Outsize Health Risks
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/02/27/the-smallest-of-pollutants-are-linked-to-outsize-health-risks.html

District Fires Sick Librarian (MCS)
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6535828.html?industryid=47052

What makes this meal really organic?
http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5780

China's drug agency says importing countries must ensure safety
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/080227/x022702A.html

February 26, 2008

Finding Nontoxic Toys
http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/organic-parenting/zissu/non-toxic-toys-55026301

Fluoride may damage brain
http://www.nbc26.com/news/health/15994917.html

Smoke-free cars for kids? Ontario looks at car-smoking ban
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/307005

5 Investigates Mold Remediators
http://www.kpho.com/news/15414355/detail.html

Senate approves autism mandate
http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=57CA5351-D346-D743-BDC7EEBED06311E8

Secrets In The Soil: Judge Keeps Lawsuit Alive
http://cbs4.com/local/Toxic.Soil.Secrets.2.663570.html

Senator questions open access mandate
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54372/

February 25, 2008

Vaccines are Likely to Cause Insulin Dependent Diabetes in Over 2% of
Children With a Strong Family History of Insulin Dependent Diabetes, New
Data Indicates
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/vaccines-likely-cause-insulin-dependent-diabetes-2-children-strong-family_491917_1.html

Toxic Trailers: Health concerns force government to find new housing for
hurricane victims
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/86/i08/8608notw6.html

Japan facing vaccination lawsuits
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/02/25/japan_facing_vaccination_lawsuits/6883/

Chlorine Can React With Sweat, Urine At Indoor Swimming Pools Forming
Volatile Disinfection Byproducts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080219161946.htm

Health Center researchers investigate health risks to nail salon workers
http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2008/080225/08022513.htm

February 24, 2008

Professionals Urge End to Water Fluoridation
http://blogs.examiner.net/node/734

Fire Retardants Linked With Health Problems
http://cbs5.com/local/consumer.watch.flame.2.661700.html

Odor that got kids sick debated
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Feb/24/ln/hawaii802240350.html

February 23, 2008

Farmworkers want pesticide ban hastened
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pesticide_epa

Clean-up teams on toxic fallout watch
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23260979-662,00.html

EPA: 3 percent reduction overall in Hawai'i toxic releases
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/02/23/news/news09.txt

Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Environment/article/306165

Ahhh, the Seductive Fragrance of Molecules Under Patent
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/business/worldbusiness/23perfume.html?ei=5070&en=7e71d5bc8bb3e19a&ex=1204434000&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1203797276-Fd2IiLA0iNAgfNk2RY5byg&pagewanted=print

February 22, 2008

Just How Toxic Was that "Toxic" Satellite?
http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this/environmental-news/latest/toxic-satellite-47022203

Lampitt Introduces Bill to Remove Toxic Baby Bottles, Other Plastics From
Store Shelves
http://www.politickernj.com/lampitt-introduces-bill-remove-toxic-baby-bottles-other-plastics-store-shelves-16633

India activists face jail for publicizing endosulfan risks
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jsass/india_activists_face_jail_for.html

Three percent overall reductions in California releases, persistent
bioaccumulative toxic chemical releases also down
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week8/Friday/022213.html

Thirty-three percent overall reduction in Nevada, persistent bioaccumulative
toxic chemical releases also down
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week8/Friday/022211.html

February 18, 2008

Arsenic threatens global health
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20081802-16913-2.html

February 11, 2008

Virginia Town First in U.S. to Ban Chemical and Radioactive Bodily Trespass;
Also Strips Corporations of "Rights"
http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=504

February 1, 2008

French judges probe firms over vaccinations -source
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL0173467120080201

Links

Air Quality - What is the local government responsibility? (PDF)
http://www.awma.org/files/education/air.pdf

ABC NEWS STORY: Are vaccines to blame for infant deaths?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSrEzkFGyg

VIDEO: Cindy Sage. The BioInitiative Report - Biological Standards for
Wireless. 38 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tZDor-_co0

VIDEO: Oprah Winfrey Show (1996)
Hidden Environmental Dangers at Schools with Dr. Doris Rapp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1QreyGjuTo

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Scientific Studies

Piro F, Madsen C, Naess O, Nafstad P, Claussen B.
A comparison of self reported air pollution problems and GIS-modeled levels
of air pollution in people with and without chronic diseases
Environmental Health, 2008 7:9 (28 February 2008)
Abstract http://www.ehjournal.net/content/7/1/9/abstract
Provisional PDF http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-7-9.pdf

Guo P, Yokoyama K, Suenaga M, Kida H.
Mortality and life expectancy of Yokkaichi Asthma patients, Japan: Late
health effects of air pollution occurred in 1960-70s
Environmental Health, 2008 7:8 (26 February 2008)
Abstract http://www.ehjournal.net/content/7/1/8/abstract
Provisional PDF http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-7-8.pdf
PubMed http://www.ehjournal.net/pubmed/18302742

Migration of mercury from dental amalgam through human teeth
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18296776?dopt=AbstractPlus

Scientific Consensus Statement of Environmental Agents Associated with
Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
http://www.iceh.org/pdfs/LDDI/LDDIStatement.pdf

Chronic fatigue syndrome defies the mind-body-schism of medicine : New
perspectives on a multiple realizable developmental systems disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18288588?dopt=AbstractPlus

Screening and detection of the in vitro agonistic activity of xenobiotics on
the retinoic acid receptor.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18289828?dopt=AbstractPlus

Hair mercury in breast-fed infants exposed to thimerosal-preserved vaccines
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237965?dopt=AbstractPlus

Chronic fatigue syndrome: characteristics and possible causes for its
pathogenesis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300582?dopt=AbstractPlus

Can the Neuropathic Pain Scale Discriminate Between Non-neuropathic and
Neuropathic Pain?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18298697&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Photocopy machines and occupational antiphospholipid syndrome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300574?dopt=AbstractPlus

Lourdes "Sal" Salvador
www.mcs-america.org

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Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety

Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
 
Deborah Rice, an award-winning toxicologist, was removed from a group of experts researching a widely-used flame retardant after industry lobbyists complained that she was biased.
 
Under pressure from the chemical industry, the Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed an outspoken scientist who chaired a federal panel responsible for helping the agency determine the dangers of a flame retardant widely used in electronic equipment.

Toxicologist Deborah Rice was appointed chair of an EPA scientific panel reviewing the chemical a year ago. Federal records show she was removed from the panel in August after the American Chemistry Council, the lobbying group for chemical manufacturers, complained to a top-ranking EPA official that she was biased.

The chemical, a brominated compound known as deca, is used in high volumes worldwide, largely in the plastic housings of television sets.

Rice, an award-winning former EPA scientist who now works at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, has studied low doses of deca and reported neurological effects in lab animals. Last February, around the time the EPA panel was convened, Rice testified before the Maine Legislature in support of a state ban on the compound because scientific evidence shows it is toxic and accumulating in the environment and people.

Chemical industry lobbyists say Rice's comments to the Legislature, as well as similar comments to the media, show that she is a biased advocate who has compromised the integrity of the EPA's review of the flame retardant.

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Photocopy machines and occupational antiphospholipid syndrome

Photocopy machines and occupational antiphospholipid syndrome

Bar-Sela S, Shoenfeld Y.

Allergy and Clinical Immunology Clinic, Kupat Holim Meuhedet, Israel.

Isr Med Assoc J. 2008 Jan;10(1):52-4


Two patients who worked for several years in the operation and maintenance of photocopy machines developed an autoimmune disease. In both, early manifestations were thromboembolic phenomena associated with anticardiolipin antibodies. Joint and kidney involvement emerged later, with the appearance of other autoantibodies. These two patients were occupationally exposed to ultraviolet irradiation, ozone emission, and possibly some oxides of heavy metals. To our knowledge this is the first report of occupational autoimmune disease in photocopy machine workers, and the first description of antiphospholipid syndrome as an occupational disease. The possible cause-effect inter-relationship between their occupational exposure and autoimmune disease is discussed.

PMID: 18300574 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300574?dopt=AbstractPlus

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Featured Research Studies

Assessing developmental toxicant exposures via biomonitoring.
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Inside MCS America

MCS America has a new public listserve that anyone is welcome to join without an application.  The focus and operation of this list will be different than our other groups. A description of each is provided below.  You are invited to join one or more applicable listserves. 
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Sal's Place: What Motivated You to Launch MCS America?

What Motivated You to Launch MCS America?
MCS America was born... out of my outrage at the lack of information, social support, and viable alternatives for people with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), coupled with outrage over the corruption, lies, deceit, and blatant denial that MCS exists in the name of industry profits, while more and more people find their lives stolen, their candle snuffed out, their world forever changed. 
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Signed U.S. Governor Proclamations: MCS Awareness Month

Signed U.S. Governor Proclamations:  MCS Awareness Month
 
Proclamations signed in February may be viewed on the pages that follow.  All proclamations may be viewed and downloaded at: 
http://mcs-america.org/index_files/proclamations.htm
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Air Fresheners Pollute Indoor Air

Air Fresheners Pollute Indoor Air
There are many indoor air quality factors that affect the health and comfort of occupants, including temperature, air circulation, radon, molds, personal fragrances, pesticides, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, asbestos, ozone, smoke, cleaning chemicals, chemicals contained in furnishings, and other volatile organic compounds.  Volatile organic compounds come from paints, solvents, pesticides, air fresheners, aerosol sprays, and adhesives, among others. Particulate pollution comes from dust, pollen, fireplaces, wood stoves, kerosene/gas heaters.
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Spray That Mosquito?

Spray That Mosquito?
Researchers at the Neurotoxicology Division of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory performed a critical analysis of research literature on pyrethroid-induced  neurobehavioral toxicity and other adverse effects in adult animals.  Pyrethroids are a class of synthetic chemical insecticides similar to the natural pesticide pyrethrum.  They are commonly used for mosquito control.   
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Scientists Identify Brain Cell Toxicity

 
Individuals and families of those with autism, multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and other illnesses  have long blamed the toxic effects of chemicals for their symptoms.  Indeed many parents can trace autism back to a vaccination reaction.  Those with multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia can sometimes trace their declining health back to a toxic exposure. 
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Chemical Trespass

If a man were to walk onto private property unwelcome, he would be trespassing under a law enacted to afford a remedy for injury to property.  Yet, each day, hundreds of common, yet unwelcome and potentially toxic, chemicals drift through the air onto private property and little concern for injury to health is expressed.  Chemical trespass is the involuntary deposition of toxic or potentially toxic chemicals within a human body.
 
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Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Dysregulation

Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Dysregulation
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg10.pdf  
 
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction all share something in common.  The question is whether they are correlated.  And if they are correlated, which comes first?  Can treating one, correct the other?
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Activist's Corner: Obtain an MCS Awareness Month Proclamation

Activist's Corner:  Obtain an MCS Awareness Month Proclamation
 
Would you like your governor  or mayor to proclaim May 2008 as MCS Awareness and Education Month?
 
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Mission of Truth: Critical Thinking, Part 2: Ambiguity

Mission of Truth:  Critical Thinking, Part 2:  Ambiguity
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg678.pdf
 
In a world where science is biased, facts are manipulated, doctors are mislead, industry acts to misinform, and few can be trusted, when it comes to controversial illnesses, such as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), fibromyalgia (FM), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), patients, doctors, and researchers must employ critical thinking skills as they are essential to finding the truth.  Each month, this column explores methods of critical thinking necessary for scientists and patient to sort through the bunk and get to the facts and real truth.  This month we will examine the pitfall of ambiguity. 
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Beleaguered, Part 2

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Beleaguered, Part 2
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg12345.pdf

Last month a basic overview of the industry disinformation campaign against multiple chemical sensitivity was presented.  This month continues to  explore this issues in more depth.   As a fitting start to this months exploration, Mary Ebeling's Beyond Advertising: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Hidden Marketing Tactics was published on February 21st at PR Watch.  In her article, Ebeling describes the marketing tactics engaged in by pharmaceutical companies to increase profits, including celebrity endorsements and specific communication targets for direct to consumer drug advertisements aimed at mothers of certain income.
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MCS America News - March 2008 Issue

MCSA News
Volume 3 Issue 3
March 2008

Full PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008.pdf


Article Previews on the Web with Links to Individual Articles: 
http://mcs-america.org/index_files/MCSAnewsletterMarch2008.htm

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Beleaguered, Part 2
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg12345.pdf

Last month a basic overview of the industry disinformation campaign against multiple chemical sensitivity was presented.  This month continues to  explore this issues in more depth.   As a fitting start to this months exploration, Mary Ebeling's Beyond Advertising: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Hidden Marketing Tactics was published on February 21st at PR Watch.  In her article, Ebeling describes the marketing tactics engaged in by pharmaceutical companies to increase profits, including celebrity endorsements and specific communication targets for direct to consumer drug advertisements aimed at mothers of certain income.
Mission of Truth:  Critical Thinking, Part 2:  Ambiguity
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg678.pdf
 
In a world where science is biased, facts are manipulated, doctors are mislead, industry acts to misinform, and few can be trusted, when it comes to controversial illnesses, such as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), fibromyalgia (FM), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), patients, doctors, and researchers must employ critical thinking skills as they are essential to finding the truth.  Each month, this column explores methods of critical thinking necessary for scientists and patient to sort through the bunk and get to the facts and real truth.  This month we will examine the pitfall of ambiguity. 
 
Activist's Corner:  Obtain an MCS Awareness Month Proclamation
 
Would you like your governor  or mayor to proclaim May 2008 as MCS Awareness and Education Month?
 
Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Dysregulation
PDF: http://www.mcs-america.org/March2008pg10.pdf  
 
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction all share something in common.  The question is whether they are correlated.  And if they are correlated, which comes first?  Can treating one, correct the other?
 
If a man were to walk onto private property unwelcome, he would be trespassing under a law enacted to afford a remedy for injury to property.  Yet, each day, hundreds of common, yet unwelcome and potentially toxic, chemicals drift through the air onto private property and little concern for injury to health is expressed.  Chemical trespass is the involuntary deposition of toxic or potentially toxic chemicals within a human body.
 
 
Individuals and families of those with autism, multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and other illnesses  have long blamed the toxic effects of chemicals for their symptoms.  Indeed many parents can trace autism back to a vaccination reaction.  Those with multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia can sometimes trace their declining health back to a toxic exposure. 
 
Spray That Mosquito?
Researchers at the Neurotoxicology Division of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory performed a critical analysis of research literature on pyrethroid-induced  neurobehavioral toxicity and other adverse effects in adult animals.  Pyrethroids are a class of synthetic chemical insecticides similar to the natural pesticide pyrethrum.  They are commonly used for mosquito control.   
 
Air Fresheners Pollute Indoor Air
There are many indoor air quality factors that affect the health and comfort of occupants, including temperature, air circulation, radon, molds, personal fragrances, pesticides, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, asbestos, ozone, smoke, cleaning chemicals, chemicals contained in furnishings, and other volatile organic compounds.  Volatile organic compounds come from paints, solvents, pesticides, air fresheners, aerosol sprays, and adhesives, among others. Particulate pollution comes from dust, pollen, fireplaces, wood stoves, kerosene/gas heaters.
 
Signed U.S. Governor Proclamations:  MCS Awareness Month
 
Proclamations signed in February may be viewed on the pages that follow.  All proclamations may be viewed and downloaded at: 
http://mcs-america.org/index_files/proclamations.htm
 
What Motivated You to Launch MCS America?
MCS America was born... out of my outrage at the lack of information, social support, and viable alternatives for people with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), coupled with outrage over the corruption, lies, deceit, and blatant denial that MCS exists in the name of industry profits, while more and more people find their lives stolen, their candle snuffed out, their world forever changed. 
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MCS America has a new public listserve that anyone is welcome to join without an application.  The focus and operation of this list will be different than our other groups. A description of each is provided below.  You are invited to join one or more applicable listserves. 
 
 
 
Assessing developmental toxicant exposures via biomonitoring.

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The mission of MCS America (MCSA) is to gain medical, legal, and social recognition for multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) as a disorder of organic biological origin induced by toxic environmental insults.  Secondarily, MCSA seeks to ensure that environmental toxicants are identified, reduced, regulated, and enforced through lobbying for effective legislation.
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Can the Neuropathic Pain Scale Discriminate Between Non-neuropathic and Neuropathic Pain?

Pain Med. 2008 Mar;9(2):149-160.Click here to read Links

Can the Neuropathic Pain Scale Discriminate Between Non-neuropathic and Neuropathic Pain?

Fishbain DA, Lewis JE, Cutler R, Cole B, Rosomoff HL, Rosomoff RS.

Departments of Psychiatry, Neurological Surgery, and Anesthesiology, Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida; The Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain Center at Douglas Gardens, Miami, Florida; and Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA.

Objectives. 1) To determine if the neuropathic pain scale (NPS) can be used to classify chronic pain patients (CPPs) as having primarily neuropathic vs non-neuropathic pain, and furthermore; 2) to determine what, if any, cut-off score can be used to reliably make this determination. Design. A total of 305 CPPs consecutive admissions to The Rosomoff Pain Center were administered the NPS and were assigned a diagnosis according to the physical examination and all available test results. CPPs with a diagnosis of chronic radiculopathy and spondylolysis/degenerative arthritis were segregated into two groups for the purposes of having a group representative of neuropathic pain (chronic radiculopathy) and non-neuropathic pain (spondylolysis/degenerative arthritis). Applying neuropathic pain criteria to each "of these two groups": a neuropathic pain "subtype" was identified within the chronic radiculopathy group; and, a non-neuropathic pain "subtype" was identified within the spondylolysis/degenerative arthritis group. This step was performed in order to assure that the CPPs selected for further analysis were truly representative of neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain. Discriminant function analysis was then employed to determine if NPS scoring could differentiate between these two "subtypes." Results from the discriminant function analysis model were utilized to derive an NPS cut-off score above which CPPs would be classified as having neuropathic pain. For the diagnoses of myofascial pain syndromes, spinal stenosis, epidural fibrosis, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndromes 1 and 2, and failed back surgery syndrome, a predicted NPS score was calculated and compared with the cut-off score. Setting. Multidisciplinary pain facility. Patients. Chronic pain patients. Results. The NPS appeared to be able to separate CPPs into neuropathic pain vs non-neuropathic pain subtypes. The derived cut-off score from the model was 5.53. Myofascial pain syndrome and spinal stenosis had predictive scores lower than this cut-off score at 3.81 and 4.26, respectively. Epidural fibrosis, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndromes 1 and 2, and failed back surgery syndrome had predictive scores higher than the cut-off score at 6.15, 6.35, 6.87, 9.34, and 7.19, respectively. Conclusions. The NPS appears to be able to discriminate between neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain. A debate is currently raging as to whether diagnoses, such as fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome 1, can be classified as neuropathic. Our NPS cut-off score results suggest that these diagnoses may have a neuropathic pain component. The reliability and validity of our NPS method will need to be tested further in other neuropathic pain models, such as diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain.

PMID: 18298697 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18298697&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum

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Chronic fatigue syndrome: characteristics and possible causes for its pathogenesis.

Isr Med Assoc J. 2008 Jan;10(1):79-82.

Chronic fatigue syndrome: characteristics and possible causes for its pathogenesis.

Bassi N, Amital D, Amital H, Doria A, Shoenfeld Y.

Department of Rheumatology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a heterogeneous disorder with unknown pathogenesis and etiology, characterized by disabling fatigue, difficulty in concentration and memory, and concomitant skeletal and muscular pain. Several mechanisms have been suggested to play a role in CFS, such as excessive oxidative stress following exertion, immune imbalance characterized by decreased natural killer cell and macrophage activity, immunoglobulin G subclass deficiencies (IgG1, IgG3) and decreased serum concentrations of complement component. Autoantibodies were also suggested as a possible factor in the pathogenesis of CFS. Recent studies indicate that anti-serotonin, anti-microtubule-associated protein 2 and anti-muscarinic cholinergic receptor 1 may play a role in the pathogenesis of CFS. It has been demonstrated that impairment in vasoactive neuropeptide metabolism may explain the symptoms of CFS.

PMID: 18300582 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18300582?dopt=AbstractPlus

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How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids

Poster's Comment:  This is a book excerpt (NFI).
 
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam:  How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/stemot.html
 
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Should Public Health Officials Be Disqualified While "Experts" With Corporate Ties Remain?

Should Public Health Officials Be Disqualified While "Experts" With Corporate Ties Remain?

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WASHINGTON – Under pressure from chemical industry lobbyists, the Bush Administration fired the chair of an expert science panel at the Environmental Protection Agency that was evaluating the safety of a neurotoxic fire retardant, according to documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG).

EPA is to issue by March 7 a reassessment of the human health risks from Deca, an industrial fire retardant used in electronics and other consumer products, and widely found in Americans' blood and breast milk. But last summer EPA removed Dr. Deborah Rice, a Maine state scientist and author of an important study of the chemical, as chair of the external advisory panel for EPA's review of fire retardants.

Her firing came after a protest from the chemical industry, which claimed Rice had a conflict of interest as a result of her testimony before the Maine Legislature, on behalf of her agency, in favor of phasing out Deca. EPA also removed her comments from the panel's final report on Deca's safety.

While the EPA and the chemical industry thought the presence of one of the country's preeminent experts on the toxic fire retardant Deca had no business chairing the advisory panel, scores of individuals with direct financial ties to the chemical industry remain on a number of different external advisory panels.

An EWG review of 7 external expert panels convened last year under EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) found 17 members with direct or potential conflicts of interest, including employees of companies who make the chemicals under review or scientists whose work was funded by industries with a financial stake in the panel's outcome.

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Dinged By Dryer Sheets

Dinged By Dryer Sheets

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/dinged-by-dryer-sheets.html

You know if you are one of those sensitive to dryer sheets and fabric softeners. (I think this is the No. 2 consumer complaint behind perfume.) You are sad that you don't like to walk in your neighborhood on Saturday mornings because of the offense smell wafting from neighbors' dryer vents. If someone uses them in your home you may have a nightmare of burning skin, respiratory irritation, anxiety attacks and irritability. I have one friend who became so sensitive to the fumes that he had to sleep in a chair until he could get new bedding! What is the problem with these laundry products? Plenty.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Forcing drug companies to publish negative trial results 'is against law'

Poster's Comment:  Scary!
February 27, 2008

Forcing drug companies to publish negative trial results 'is against law'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3441583.ece

An election pledge to require drugs companies to publish full details of clinical trials for medicines cannot be fulfilled because it is illegal under EU law, the Government has admitted.

Psychiatrists and health campaigners renewed a call yesterday for all data on the effectiveness of medicines to be published after a review of clinical trials concluded that antidepressant drugs were no more effective than a placebo for patients suffering from depression.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

May is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness Month

May is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness Month  

Scientific studies estimate that 16% of the population suffers with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), which is also known as a toxic injury of chemical origin.  MCS affects both genders, all races, all income levels, all education levels and anyone could be permanently and totally disabled by it.

MCS is thought to be caused by chronic low level chemical exposures or an acute toxic exposure to a contaminant such as pesticide, carbon monoxide, an number of industrial chemicals, and "sick" buildings.  Once affected, victims suffer permanent irreversible damage that causes a myriad of symptoms in multiple body organs and ranges from seizures and respiratory difficulty to headache, sore throat, asthma-like symptoms, and more.

"This is particularly significant when one considers that this conditions impact an estimated 16% of the population as opposed to 6% who are affected by diabetes, which most Americans are familiar with; costing billions in treatments, lost income due to missing work and absenteeism from school," said Lourdes Salvador, Founder and President of MCS America. "No one is immune to developing MCS.  All it takes is one accident," added Salvador who is also the cheif editor of MCS America News.
 
Dr. Martin Pall, PhD of Washington State University Department of Molecular Biosciences, regards MCS as being related to other multi-system diesases including chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which was recently recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who cites chemcial sensitivities as a symptom of CFS.  MCS substantially limits the ability of it's victims to live  normal lives, work, attend school, shop, and socialize as a myriad of common items generally recognized as safe cause dangerous reactions.  These items include fragrances found in perfumes, lotions, soaps, and laundry products as well as cleaners, pesticides, diesel, news print, new carpets, and many other items encountered in day to day living.

Salvador and other members of MCS America suggest that patients need more qualified medical care, increased access to public facilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and support from family and friends once afflicted while doctors need additional training and scientists need more funding for addional research into the etiology of MCS. "This is truly a crisis situation," said Salvador. "MCS affects a persons ability to earn a living, travel, socialize, and function in our modern world in which chemicals and fragrances are impossible to avoid.  Learn all you can.  You could be next!"

For additional information e-mail MCS America, admin@mcs-america.org or visit www.mcs-america.org.

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Migration of mercury from dental amalgam through human teeth

Migration of mercury from dental amalgam through human teeth

Harris HH, Vogt S, Eastgate H, Legnini DG, Hornberger B, Cai Z, Lai B, Lay PA.

School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

J Synchrotron Radiat. 2008 Mar;15(Pt 2):123-8. Epub 2008 Feb 19.

Exposure to mercury from dental amalgams, with possible negative health effects, has generally been considered to occur via either erosion or evaporation directly from the surface of fillings, followed by ingestion. The aim of this study was to determine the relative importance of the direct migration of mercury through the tooth as an alternative exposure pathway. X-ray fluorescence imaging has been used to determine quantitatively the spatial distribution of Hg, Ca, Zn and Cu in sections of human teeth that had been filled with amalgam for more than 20 years. X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) was also employed to gain chemical information on the mercury present in the teeth. Hg (up to approximately 10 mg g(-1)) and Zn (>100 mg g(-1)) were detected in the teeth several millimetres from the location of the amalgams. At high resolution, Hg showed higher concentrations in dentinal tubules while Zn was generally evenly distributed. XANES showed that the chemical form of Hg that had migrated into the tooth had been altered from that present in the amalgam. The differing spatial distributions of Hg and Zn suggest distinct transport mechanisms for the two metals, presumably chemical for Zn and initially physical for Hg. Subsequent oxidation of Hg may lead to a loss of mobility or the development of a secondary transport mechanism. Most importantly the detection of Hg in areas of the tooth that once contained an active bloodstream and in calculus indicates that both exposure pathways should be considered as significant.

PMID: 18296776 [PubMed - in process]
 

 
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Senate's Plan to Ban Aspartame 'Deferred': Health Committee Passes The Buck to the FDA

Senate's Plan to Ban Aspartame 'Deferred': Health Committee Passes The Buck to the FDA

By Betty Martini, D.Hum, 2/26/2008 1:43:36 PM

HONOLULU, HAWAII - A blazing epidemic ravages the planet. Everywhere are reports of the disabled and dying. There are 92 symptoms, seizures, comas, sexual dysfunction, death are listed by the FDA. Medical texts by eminent doctors define the causation and delineate a preventive to stop the slaughter. Thousands of case histories and dozens of peer reviewed studies by top professionals and research institutions confirm the source of the sickness, a sweet addictive toxin poisoning our foods and beverages: aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal.

But Government intransigently refuses to protect the people since big money is involved. Let people die, the profits of the poisoners must be protected, whatever the cost to citizens. The political influence and bottomless checkbooks of the producers overwhelm reason and evidence.

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The impact of the environment on health by country: a meta-synthesis

The impact of the environment on health by country: a meta-synthesis

Annette Pruss-Ustun email, Sophie Bonjour email and Carlos Corvalan email

Environmental Health 2008, 7:7doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-7

Published: 25 February 2008

Abstract (provisional)

Background

Health gains that environmental interventions could achieve are main questions when choosing environmental health action to prevent disease. The World Health Organization has recently released profiles of environmental burden of disease for 192 countries.

Methods

These country profiles provide an estimate of the health impacts from the three major risk factors 'unsafe water, sanitation & hygiene', 'indoor air pollution from solid fuel use' and 'outdoor air pollution'. The profiles also provide an estimate of preventable health impacts by the environment as a whole. While the estimates for the three risk factors are based on country exposures, the estimates of health gains for total environmental improvements are based on a review of the literature supplemented by expert opinion and combined with country health statistics.

Results

Between 13% and 37% of the countries' disease burden could be prevented by environmental improvements, resulting globally in about 13 million deaths per year. It is estimated that about four million of these could be prevented by improving water, sanitation and hygiene, and indoor and outdoor air alone. The number of environmental DALYs per 1000 capita per year ranges between 14 and 316 according to the country. An analysis by disease group points to main preventions opportunities for each country.

Conclusions

Not withstanding the uncertainties in their calculation, these estimates provide an overview of opportunities for prevention through healthier environments. The estimates show that for similar national incomes, the environmental burden of disease can typically vary by a factor five. This analysis also shows that safer water, sanitation and hygiene, and safer fuels for cooking could significantly reduce child mortality, namely by more than 25% in 20 of the lowest income countries.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Oprah: Hidden Environmental Dangers at Schools

VIDEO
Oprah Winfrey Show
Hidden Environmental Dangers at Schools with Dr. Doris Rapp
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Virginia Town First in U.S. to Ban Chemical and Radioactive Bodily Trespass; Also Strips Corporations of "Rights"

MEDIA RELEASE
February 11, 2008

Virginia Town First in U.S. to Ban Chemical and Radioactive Bodily Trespass; Also Strips Corporations of "Rights"

http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=504

Joins Growing List of Communities Recognizing
Rights of Nature
 
On February 7, 2008, the Town Council of Halifax, Virginia, voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance banning corporate chemical and radioactive bodily trespass.  Enacted to confront concerns about the proposed uranium mine in adjacent Pittsylvania County, the ordinance establishes strict liability and burden-of-proof standards for culpable corporations and government entities that permit and facilitate corporate bodily trespass.

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Invite to participate in MCS research

Poster's Comment:  Pamala Reed Gibson (Pam) has only had a couple of dozen people respond to this survey.  This kind of research is crucial to us to determine the needs of those with chemical sensitivity. Pam has published some outstanding research in support of chemical sensitivity.  The survey can be completed online in less than 20 minutes.  I completed it in 10 minutes.  Pam is also willing to do a phone interview.  Her phone and email contact are below.  I highly encourage everyone who qualifies to complete the survey.  If you are unsure if you qualify, please call or email Pam. 
 
In order to participate, you must have MCS and have requested assistance from a Center for Independent Living (CIL).  A CIL is NOT an assisted living facility.  Rather, it is a place where one speaks with someone for help and resources.  CIL's don't usually provide direct services, but they can make referrals and help clients talk through concerns and find solutions. You may have sought help with finding suitable employment, getting accommodations for school, or figuring out where you can find safe housing.  This is all the type of work that CIL's do.  
 
"CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING‑ The term `center for independent living' means a consumer‑controlled, community‑based, cross‑disability, nonresidential private nonprofit agency that is designed and operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities and provides an array of independent living services."
 
Invite to participate in MCS research regarding the Centers for Independent Living
 
In effort to study and improve services to the chemically sensitive, Dr. Pam Gibson and her students are seeking persons with chemical sensitivity that have requested help from a Center for Independent Living (CIL). The study will take approximately 20 minutes to complete and is accessible through Dr. Gibson's research site at http://www.mcsresearch.net.
 
You can also access the survey directly on Websurveyor at
https://websurvey.jmu.edu/ss/wsb.dll/40/mcsperspectives.htm.
 
We would be grateful for your participation. If you have attempted to access a CIL and are willing to participate, but unable to complete a study online, please contact us for a paper survey or a phone interview.
 
Phone 540-568-6195. E-mail: gibsonpr@jmu.edu.
 
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Too much perfume? Could be a zinc deficiency

Too much perfume? Could be a zinc deficiency.
http://blog.nutritiondata.com/ndblog/2007/10/too-much-perfum.html

Pepe Do you know someone who wears too much perfume or cologne? Although it's extremely unpleasant for their co-workers and those sitting close to them at the movie theater or on the commuter train, these folks usually have no idea that their scent is over-powering to those around them.  And in fact,  it may be the result a nutritional deficiency.

At the recent annual conference of the American College of Nutrition, researchers presented results of an intriguing study that found that those who over-apply scents have dramatically lower zinc levels than normal. In addition to affecting your sense of taste and smell, zinc is critical for a healthy immune response and neurological function.

It can be touchy to approach someone about what seems like a personal grooming matter. But if anyone has ever hinted to you that your cologne might be a little over-the-top, consider the possibility that low zinc levels are rendering your sniffer unreliable.

Good food sources of zinc include meat, dairy products, shell-fish, nuts, and beans.  (Here's a more complete list of foods rich in zinc, generated with ND's Nutrient Search Tool.  The Recommended Daily Allowance is around 10mg per day.

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The top 10 industries ranked highest for producing toxic chemicals

The top 10

These industries ranked highest for producing toxic chemicals, including those emitted into the air, water, sent to landfills, treated, recycled or burned for energy recovery, in 2006, according to the EPA.

1. Steel Dynamics, Butler…23,982,632 pounds
2. Steel Dynamics, Columbia City…6,447,241 pounds
3. R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Warsaw…684,550 pounds
4. Gold Shield of Indiana, Decatur…682,270 pounds
5. GM Truck Group, Fort Wayne…620,004 pounds
6. Dalton Corp., Warsaw…542,677 pounds
7. Ford Meter Box, Wabash…379,523 pounds
8. AAA Galvanizing of Hamilton, Hamilton…348,908 pounds
9. Dalton Corp., Kendallville…343,006 pounds
10. Alumitech of Wabash, Wabash…329,552 pounds
 
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Beyond Advertising: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Hidden Marketing Tactics

Beyond Advertising: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Hidden Marketing Tactics
http://www.prwatch.org/node/7026
In early January, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce began investigating celebrity endorsements in television ads for brand-name drugs. The investigation was sparked by Pfizer's commercials for its best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor. These direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads feature Dr. Robert Jarvik, a pioneer in the development of the artificial heart. Viewers are not told that Jarvik is not a cardiologist, nor is he licensed to practice medicine. His presentation as a trusted expert, Pfizer presumably hopes, is enough to persuade viewers to ask their doctors for Lipitor by name. And that would help erode the increasing competition from generic alternatives.
 
DTC ads have been controversial since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) loosened the rules governing pharmaceutical marketing in 1997. Before Lipitor made headlines, there was Viagra. Pfizer's "Viva Viagra!" campaign was criticized by the FDA and organizations including the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, who said the DTC ads encouraged recreational use of the erectile dysfunction drug. One print ad suggested that Viagra be used to "celebrate" events such as the Super Bowl or New Year's Eve.
 
While troubling, DTC ads represent only 14 percent of pharmaceutical companies' marketing budgets. By the time a 30-second drug commercial airs, the company has conducted months of segmentation studies, held dozens of meetings to define the "communication target" (typically a woman, usually a mother, and of a certain income), and spent millions of dollars to develop the drug's brand and its market. This strategic marketing, which represents the remaining 86 percent of drug promotion expenses, should receive at least as much attention from regulators and lawmakers as DTC ads.
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Free screening of 'Sicko' in Owego

Poster's Comment:  This is in New York for those who might attend or know someone who might like to attend.
 
Free screening of 'Sicko' in Owego
 

February 24, 2008

See Michael Moore's highly publicized documentary about the American health care industry at 7 p.m. today at Tioga Trails Cafe, 50 Lake St. in Owego. The free screening of "Sicko" is sponsored by Tioga Peace and Justice.

Moore, the film's writer, director and producer, compares this country's profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with free, universal care in Canada, the United Kingdom and France. He interviews Americans who have been denied coverage by their insurance companies and he takes three Sept. 11 cleanup volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for health care. The film received much acclaim as well as much criticism, and is definitely worth a viewing.

For more information about the free screening, call (607) 687-7195.
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Health Center researchers investigate health risks to nail salon workers

Health Center researchers investigate health risks to nail salon workers
http://www..advance.uconn.edu/2008/080225/08022513.htm

by Carolyn Pennington - February 25, 2008

When you think of hazardous work, manicurist probably isn't the first job that comes to mind. But if you're pregnant, you should be aware of the risks.

The polishes, acrylics, and other products used in nail salons contain some 20 chemicals flagged by the Environmental Protection Agency as having potential symptoms and health effects.
 
"We're seeing a substantial number of women who work in the beauty industry who are concerned about whether they can work during their pregnancies," says Dr. John Meyer, an assistant professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Health Center.

The Division partners with the Connecticut Pregnancy Exposure Information Service to provide clinical evaluations and expertise in reducing or preventing workplace exposure that may affect fertility, maternal health, pregnancy, and fetal development.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Chronic fatigue syndrome defies the mind-body-schism of medicine

Med Health Care Philos. 2008 Feb 21 [Epub ahead of print]

Chronic fatigue syndrome defies the mind-body-schism of medicine : New perspectives on a multiple realisable developmental systems disorder.

Ulvestad E.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Haukeland University Hospital, and The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Armauer Hansen Building, Bergen, 5021, Norway, elling.ulvestad@helse-bergen.no.

The article maintains that chronic fatigue syndrome can be properly understood only by taking an integrated perspective in which evolutionary, developmental and ecological aspects are considered. The integrative approach, supplemented by a complexity theory and psychoneuroimmunological research, is capable of explaining why there are so few structural aberrations to be found in chronic fatigue syndrome and why specific treatment is so difficult to establish. A major outcome of the investigation, that all individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome are diseased in their own way, emphasises the need to study the development of personalised life histories. It also highlights an ethical dimension; personalised disease defies essentialist thinking on patient management. Another major outcome, which follows from the developmental systems perspective, is the dissolution of ontological mind-body dualism. This in turn allows for a methodological complementation of the biological and phenomenological approaches to knowledge. New research strategies that may help to resolve chronic fatigue syndrome, grounded in the revised perspective on individual development, are suggested.

PMID: 18288588 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18288588?dopt=AbstractPlus

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Screening and detection of the in vitro agonistic activity of xenobiotics on the retinoic acid receptor.

Toxicol In Vitro. 2008 Jan 12 [Epub ahead of print]

Screening and detection of the in vitro agonistic activity of xenobiotics on the retinoic acid receptor.

Kamata R, Shiraishi F, Nishikawa JI, Yonemoto J, Shiraishi H.

Research Center for Environmental Risk, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.

The retinoic acid receptors (RARs) play key roles in various biological processes in response to endogenous retinoic acids. However, excessive embryonic exposure to specific ligands for each subtype of the RAR was reported to induce specific developmental abnormalities. We measured the RAR agonistic activity of 543 chemicals using an assay system adopting yeast cells transfected with the human RARgamma and a coactivator. Eighty-five of the 543 chemicals, including 16 organochlorine pesticides, 14 styrene dimers, 9 monoalkylphenols and 6 parabens, exhibited RARgamma agonistic effects in this assay. In particular, monoalkylphenols having a 6-9 carbon alkyl group para to the phenolic hydroxyl group possessed high affinity for the RARgamma, and their activities were 1.363-0.446% of that of all-trans RA. para-Alkylphenols chlorinated at the ortho position also were about as active or more active than their unchlorinated analogs. In addition, all tested styrene dimers showed positive effects, and the activity of 1-phenyltetralin, the strongest in this category, was 1.169% that of all-trans RA. A number of chemicals having binding affinity for the RARgamma were revealed in this study (both newly identified and confirmed), further comprehensive studies of in vitro and in vivo effects via the RARs are required for the reliable risk assessment of chemicals. In vitro receptor binding studies represent an important step in hazard identification and suggest a potential mechanism of action, which can be an important step in risk assessment and in particular for screening studies to identify potential toxicity and inform mechanistic studies.

PMID: 18289828 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18289828?dopt=AbstractPlus

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Do you have chemical sensitivity? Scent Free Roommate Needed

Poster's Comment: This is a forward from someone who is looking to secure safer housing by April 15th. Please contact her directly if you know of any place that might work.  She is willing to relocate to any state.
 
Do you have chemical sensitivity? Scent Free Roommate Needed

I am a chemically sensitive individual needs to leave current living
situation by April 15 and needs safe place to move to. I am willing to move
to any northern climate, but do not drive so it would need to be near a town
or a bus route. New England preferred but am open to anywhere.

If you have MCS, you know what I'm talking about. I need a place with no new
paint, no new anything, no perfume, harsh cleaning chemicals, candles, wood
smoke, that kind of thing. Obviously with these kind of limitations it is
extremely hard to find a place to live.

Please, if you have any network of friends or people you know who MIGHT know
someone who would work, please pass the word around.

I am quiet, mature, responsible; I don't drink, use drugs, I'm not loud. I
am interested in psychology, music, reading and writing. I am a published
writer on disability issues and awareness, so think of it as helping me find
a place from which I can try to help make the world a better place.

Can pay about $400-500 a month in rent; slightly more might be possible if
necessary; money is tight so less is appreciated. I am responsible in paying
monthly rent, though.

Please email me if you think you might have a situation that would work or
if you want any more information. Thank you very much. My email address is
KGoldfie@gmail.com
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