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Americans can get an updated COVID-19 vaccine sooner than expected. The new shots, from Pfizer and Moderna, will be available in doctor’s offices and at pharmacies, and were updated based on KP ...
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Microplastics have been found in the ocean and the air, in our food and water. Dr. Marya Zlatnik, a San Francisco-based obstetrician who has studied environmental toxins and pregnancy, has seen ...
Your exposure to toxins from popular cooking utensils may not be as extreme as recent study suggested. ... researchers estimated that using black plastic kitchenware could cause an intake of ...
In February 2020, the World Health Organization advised the use of "physical barriers to reduce exposure to the COVID-19 virus, such as glass or plastic windows", [1] which is in line with the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends to "Place a barrier (e.g. sneeze guard) between employees and customers". [2]
Viral titers usually found in the sputum of COVID-19 patients are completely inactivated by levels of UV-A and UV-B irradiation that are similar to those levels experienced from natural sun exposure. This finding suggests that the reduced incidence of SARS-COV-2 in the summer may be, in part, due to the neutralizing activity of solar UV ...
Plastic chemicals are linked to chronic diseases and delayed childhood development, costing the US health care system $249 billion in 2018, a new study found.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision at the conference of parties was deferred to June 2022, where the parties agreed to list PFHxS, its salts and related compounds in Annex a without specific exemptions. [16] Upon entry into force, nations party to the convention are legally bound to take act to cease production and use of PFHxS.