Agent Orange (AO) was previously identified as a significant risk factor for biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in prostate cancer patients. In this study, we determined the ...

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In December of 1982, the people of Times Beach, Mo., were forced to abandon their town forever because the Environmental Protection Agency found high levels of a chemical called dioxin. At the time, ...

Researchers have unveiled key processes involved in the toxicity of dioxin, an environmental pollutant that has been linked to impaired brain development. In the body, dioxin forms a complex with the ...

CHICAGO -- Exposure to the ubiquitous dioxin chemicals was linked with thyroid dysfunction, a new study found. Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) data, researchers led ...

Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...

Residents of a community in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, expressed concern to health officials over possible exposures to hazardous substances from nearby chemical industries. The community is located ...

Dioxins forms faster, at lower temperatures and under other conditions than previously thought. This may affect how we in the future construct sampling equipment, flue gas filtering systems for waste ...

Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to ...

Researchers centered at the University of Tsukuba have unveiled key processes involved in the toxicity of dioxin, an environmental pollutant that has been linked to impaired brain development. In the ...