She said she collected a dust sample from the top of the stall in a women’s bathroom inside Colonia on Aug. 30, then sent it to a state-certified laboratory in Mountainside for testing. The ...

Heptachlor caused no general weakness; however, Kang and colleagues observed subtle but significant impairments in key motor tests commonly used as indicators for PD.

A pesticide used before the early 1980s and found in milk at that time may be associated with neurodegenerative findings in the brain characteristic of Parkinson's disease, according to a new ...

Heptachlor is no longer used as an insecticide in the United States. Exposure to large concentrations of heptachlor can cause liver and kidney damage, along with other problems.

(Beyond Pesticides, May 25, 2010) An analysis of 266 potential environmental contributors to type 2 diabetes published May 20, 2010 in the online edition of the journal PLoS ONE, links the disease to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 11, 2015) Milk contaminated with the long-banned and toxic organochlorine pesticide heptachlor in Hawaii has been found in the brains of men that were more likely to ...

Durairaj Manimekalai, Arasan Srinivasan, Pandurengan Padmavathy, Paulraj Jawahar, Rosalind George, Ulaganathan Arisekar, Acute and Chronic Toxicity Effects of the Heptachlor Pesticide on Tilapia ...

A mom in New Jersey is taking matters into her own hands and is investigating a possible cancer cluster linked to her children's high school after she was concerned her township wasn't doing enough.

A New Jersey mom is on a mission to uncover more information that could shed light on a possible cancer cluster at her children's high school. Edyta Komorek, an environmental scientist, told "Good ...

New Brunswick woodcocks (Philohela minor) are subjected to pesticides at both ends of their migration. Heptachlor is applied on the winter and breeding range and 2, 2-bis (p-chlorophenyl)-1, 1, ...