CBS News Being exposed to bug and weed killers or solvents may raise your risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A study published in Neurology on May 23 shows that there was between a 33 to 80 percent increased risk of developing the neurodegenerative ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel DDT, or dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane, is the best known of several pesticides first introduced in the 1940s and 1950s. It was used widely during World War II to control the spread of typhus in Europe, and also was very successful in the South ...
The Advocate Heffernan is executive director of the Connecticut Green Industries Council, a Monroe-based trade group that represents more than 3,000 greenhouses, florists, landscapers, garden centers and nurseries in the state. For the past couple of decades, he ...
PlanetSave.com In controlled studies, exposure to the weed killer paraquat or the fungicides maneb and mancozeb was associated with two times the risk of developing th...
eNews Park Forest ... a variety of environmental toxins, such as the pesticide rotenone . In another study, individuals with certain genetic factors that are exposed to organophosphates exhibited more than twice the risk of Parkinson's disease compared to others without ...
