Although dermal pesticide exposure can cause a range of adverse reactions, including dermatitis, allergic sensitization, and cancer, any route of exposure can exacerbate dermal manifestations through ...

Paraquat has drawn scrutiny for its possible links to Parkinson’s disease. It’s one of the most widely used pesticides in the ...

A new study shows distinct effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure in different bumble bee body parts, explaining why pesticides have diverse harmful effects and highlighting the need for more ...

Philip Landrigan, MD (cont.) One more way that families can reduce their children's exposure to pesticides is to eat organic food. Very good studies done at the University of Washington and ...

Occupational pesticide exposure threatens women's health as it leads to an increase in breast cancer risk for young women, ...

Malathion, a commonly used pesticide for both agricultural use and home gardening, has had a long and widely disputed history ...

“The people doing some of the most important work in our country — harvesting the food that feeds the nation — bear a disproportionate burden of the toxic pesticide exposure that risks their and their ...

Results: The results from the presented studies suggest that children exposure to pesticides may impaired development. Exposure to organophosporus pesticides (OP) in children can caused ...

Occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) in later life, according to a longitudinal population-based cohort study published in ...

In California, paraquat is the 46th-most-used pesticide, with 369,978 pounds applied in 2023, according to state data. An increasing body of research has suggested that exposure to paraquat can ...