MISSION -- As Joe Peña talks about the years he spent working at his family's beer distributorship, the anxiety is apparent in his voice. Tests have shown high levels of the pesticide DDT in his ...

A pesticide sprayed on New Brunswick forests more than 55 years ago can still be found in some brook trout in the province, according to a new study. DDT was sprayed from planes across northern and ...

Figure 6: Tumor infiltrating immune cell profiling according to high (cyan) and low (salmon) CD74:MIF levels (A) and CD74:DDT levels (B) using TIMER2.0 deconvolution analysis. “[...] we present the ...

A study published on April 14 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention revealed that women whose grandmothers were exposed to the now-banned chemical known as DDT are seeing the ...

Previous exposure to the pollutant DDT may contribute to the risk of Type 2 diabetes among Asian Indian immigrants to the United States, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

Heavy U.S. use of DDT before 1966 may have produced a previously undetected epidemic of premature births, a new study shows. Heavy U.S. use of DDT before 1966 may have produced a previously undetected ...

June 12 (UPI) --The highly potent pesticide DDT was banned more than a half-century ago, but the toxic chemical persists in lake ecosystems and continues to impact freshwater food chains, according to ...

Mothers with high levels of the pesticide DDT in their blood during pregnancy are more likely to bear children who develop autism, according to a study of blood samples from more than one million ...

Pesticides posed significant risks in popular choices such as strawberries, green beans, bell peppers, blueberries and potatoes, the review from Consumer Reports found. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay ...

Scientists have long known that DDT in a woman's tissues can be transmitted to her fetus. Now a team led by UC Berkeley researchers has found that this in utero exposure is associated with ...