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• Plastics: Phthalates are true ‘gender benders’

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Disappointed Your Last Baby Not a Girl?Don’t Despair! You may still be in luck (!)Did you always want to a have a baby girl and are disappointed because the ultrasound revealed your final attempt to be yet another boy?Phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, are hormone endocrine disruptors. They can alter the brain ...
  4 days ago

• Chemicals used in plastics may feminize boys

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 540
  Chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics may disrupt hormones in baby boys causing genital defects or feminization says new research. A study out of the University of Rochester Medical Center has found that young boys that are exposed to chemicals called phthalates in utero have a lower likelihood of typical ...
  5 days ago

• Pilot study relates phthalate exposure to less-masculine play by boys

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 647
  A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting. The University of Rochester Medical Center-led study is ...
  5 days ago

• Video: Tom Dreyer Reads at Ledig House, New York

  
  NB — Authority: 131
  Tom Dreyer is the author of the works of fiction Erdvarkfontein (1998), Stinkafrikaners (2000), Equatoria (2006) and Polaroid (2007). Stinkafrikaners was nominated for the Eugène Marais Prize in 2001 and Equatoria for the M-Net Literature Prize. Dreyer has recently been in New York state, USA, as ...
  5 days ago

• Chemicals used in plastics ‘feminise’ brains of baby boys

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): Boys who are exposed to high doses of chemicals used in plastics in the womb are less likely to play with ‘male’ toys such as cars, a new study has shown.The University of Rochester Medical Center-led study of 145 preschool children showed, for the first time, that when the concentrations ...
  6 days ago

• My Summer Internship Experience 2009

  
  Simon School Admissions Blog — Authority: 115
  By: Ameet Chandak, MBA Candidate 2010 Why do a Summer Internship? One of the top questions which one has to answer as an entrant of the Accelerated 18 Month MBA program at Simon is: “How valuable is a summer internship and should I pursue this option?” The hectic pace of the first two quarters which covers 7 ...
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• Scientists create ‘golden ear’ mouse with great hearing as it ages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): By crossing a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing, scientists have successfully created a ‘golden ear’ mouse with great hearing as it ages.University of Rochester Medical Center scientists focussing on age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, have for the first ...
  1 week ago

• Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 647
  What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing?
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• Simon Super Soccer!

  
  Simon School Admissions Blog — Authority: 115
  By James Russell Last week, your Simon Soccer Club travelled to New Haven, Connecticut to participate in the 20 th   Annual Yale Cup Soccer Tournament. The tournament brought together graduate student athletes from top educational institutions for a two-day tournament just off the Yale campus. Participating ...
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• Chemicals turning male fetuses female

  
  Corrente — Authority: 618
  Telegraph : Heres something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Novel drug candidate may help treat inherited muscular wasting disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Scientists from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York have discovered a potential drug candidate that may help treat inherited muscular wasting disease.The compound called pentamidine carries approval of the U.S. Food and Drug ...
  2 weeks ago

• Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (University of Oregon) A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. A five-member team of researchers from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry report that pentamidine might be adapted to counter ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africas Rift Valley

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 647
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• Baby Einstein Revisited

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 554
  The controversy over educational programming for very young children may have reached a crescendo when the Walt Disney Company decided to refund products they had been advertising as brain boosters. According to some, the acknowledgment that the videos do not promote better brain development among young children ...
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• Ethiopian rift confirmed as new ocean growing in the desert

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Formation of a new sea in Ethiopia.
  2 weeks ago

• Common pain relievers may dilute power of flu shots

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 647
  With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers -- Advil, Tylenol, aspirin -- at the time of inje
  2 weeks ago

• Common pain relievers may dilute power of flu shots

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (University of Rochester Medical Center) With flu vaccination season in full swing, researchers caution that use of many common pain killers -- Advil, Tylenol, aspirin -- at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system.
  2 weeks ago

• African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 647
  In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia.
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• Digital camera inventor Steve Sasson collects honorary PhD, Economist award

  
  InfoZone Where News Comes Ahead — Authority: 162
  If theres one thing we know about geeks, its that they hate having nothing to do . Bill Gates has filled his spare time collecting knighthoods and Harvard degrees , and Steve Sasson -- inventor of the first, and assuredly biggest, digital camera -- is now following in his distinguished footsteps. Sasson perfected a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Digital camera inventor Steve Sasson collects honorary PhD, Economist award

  
  Engadget — Authority: 873
  If theres one thing we know about geeks, its that they hate having nothing to do . Bill Gates has filled his spare time collecting knighthoods and Harvard degrees , and Steve Sasson -- inventor of the first, and assuredly biggest, digital camera -- is now following in his distinguished footsteps. Sasson perfected ...
  3 weeks ago

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