The review authors would have you believe otherwise, but the evidence for an association of autism with toxicants, at least as presented in this review, is on life support.

With an increasing amount of industrial wastewater being discharged, methods to identify toxicants are urgently needed for source control and quality management. We spoke to authors of a recent ...

On this episode of Cycle of Health, we discuss the unseen perils of toxicants like lead, arsenic, mercury, and others that pose a significant danger, with children being particularly vulnerable ...

New research on water fleas demonstrates how certain toxicants can affect development and progression to reproductive maturity.

Scientists have now demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The animal's DNA ...

The causative agents for the current national outbreak of electronic-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI) have not been established. Detection of toxicants in ...

Investment in brain research should aim at protecting the brains of the future from harmful environmental pollutants.

Although researchers are in the nascent stages of studying the impacts of climate change on brain development, it should come as no surprise that much like cigarette smoke, drugs and toxicants, ...

However, rigorously testing the effects of toxicants—like insecticides, plastic debris, pathogens, and chemicals—on entire groups of organisms without severely damaging their whole ecosystems ...

Certain categories of environmental toxicants are associated with depressive symptoms, according to a study published online July 3 in JAMA Network Open.