Environmental exposure to pyrethroid insecticides was associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in an observational study of a nationally representative ...

Head lice are a giant nuisance -- as many as 12 million American school children between the ages of 3 and 11 get them each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And to ...

WASHINGTON— Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed today to weaken protections for 23 pyrethroids, a class of insecticides linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and known to ...

Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) are soft-bodied insects that infest a variety of ornamental plants, and early instars are almost Undetectable to the human eye. Because the cryptic mealybugs can ...

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 13 on December 17, 2022, entitled, "The role of pyrethroid derivatives in autophagy and apoptosis crosstalk signaling and potential risk for ...

Most of us think we’re protecting ourselves from noxious chemicals with half-superstitious gestures: filtering the water we drink a pitcher at a time, or confining ourselves to the organic aisles of ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for approving more than 300 pyrethroid insecticide products without ...

Excluding permethrin, pyrethroid conectrations are less than or equal to 100ng/g of dust. The majority of the metabolites are present in more than half of the dust samples. This is not the first time ...

Researchers have sought to determine if a new and alternative class of insecticide -- anthranilic diamides -- could be effectively used instead of the more risky ones used today. If so, farmers would ...

Researchers from LSTM, with partners from a number of international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector. In ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ingredients found in head lice and scabies treatment products have been linked to behavioural difficulties in young children, scientists ...