Removing estrogen from drinking water
" conventional methods in sewage treatment plants are unable to treat this waste water sufficiently because the most frequently used estrogen ethinylestradiol is very difficult to break down. As a result,…
Team determines how estrogens persist in dairy wastewater
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Wastewater from large dairy farms contains significant concentrations of estrogenic hormones that can persist for months or even years, researchers report in a new study. In the…
First study investigating possible link between sunscreen ingredient and endometriosis
18 May 2012 Scientists are reporting a possible link between the use of sunscreen containing a certain ingredient that mimics the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen and an…
Growing deposits of bone in the skull means your hormones are out of whack, warns TAU researcher
Public release date: 8-Sep-2011 Is Estrogen Going to Your Head? Girls are growing up faster than ever — and not only when it comes to their taste in fashion and…
Don’t blame the pill for estrogen in drinking water
Public release date: 8-Dec-2010 - report suggests that animal manure accounts for 90 percent of estrogens in the environment Contrary to popular belief, birth control pills account for less than…
Estrogen therapy may be associated with kidney stones in postmenopausal women
Public release date: 11-Oct-2010 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Stones (Photo credit: rkramer62)[/caption] Use of estrogen therapy is associated with an increased risk of developing kidney stones in postmenopausal women, according…
Soy intake associated with lower recurrence of breast cancer in hormone-sensitive cancers
Public release date: 18-Oct-2010 - Soy isoflavones are similar to estrogen in chemical structure and may stimulate or inhibit estrogen-like action in tissues - those in the highest quartile (more…
Mother’s exposure to bisphenol A may increase children’s chances of asthma
Public release date: 3-Feb-2010 Mouse experiments implicate common ingredient in plastic water bottles and food packaging GALVESTON, Texas — For years, scientists have warned of the possible negative health…
Estrogen: Not just produced by the ovaries
Contact: Ei Terasawa terasawa@primate.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON – A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen — a discovery that may…
Combinations of estrogen-mimicking chemicals found to strongly distort hormone action
Contact: Jim Kelly jpkelly@utmb.edu 409-772-8791 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston For years, scientists have been concerned about chemicals in the environment that mimic the estrogens found in the…
Combinations of estrogen-mimicking chemicals found to strongly distort hormone action
Contact: Jim Kelly jpkelly@utmb.edu 409-772-8791 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston For years, scientists have been concerned about chemicals in the environment that mimic the estrogens found in the…
BPA may cause heart disease in women, research shows
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Katie Pence katie.pence@uc.edu 513-558-4561 University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center CINCINNATI—New research by a team of scientists at the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows…
Montreal water treatment plants dumping as much as 90 times the critical amount of estrogen products into the river
2008 study post for filing Contact: Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins sylvain-jacques.desjardins@umontreal.ca 514-343-7593 University of Montreal 'Estrogen flooding our rivers,' Université de Montréal study The Montreal water treatment plant dumps 90 times the…
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Chronic exposure to estrogen impairs some cognitive functions
Contact: Diana Yates diya@illinois.edu 217-333-5802 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IMAGE:Veterinary biosciences professor Susan Schantz and graduate student Victor Wang found that rats exposed to estradiol were significantly impaired on…
First study investigating possible link between sunscreen ingredient and endometriosis
Scientists are reporting a possible link between the use of sunscreen containing a certain ingredient that mimics the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen and an increased risk of…
Exposure to BPA may cause permanent fertility defects, Yale researchers find
Public release date: 8-Mar-2010 - "The DNA in the uterus was modified by loss of methyl groups so that it responded abnormally in adulthood," said Taylor. "The gene expression…
Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones
Public release date: 15-Nov-2009 - “All three steroid hormones – vitamin D, estrogen and testosterone – are produced from cholesterol, whose blood levels are known to influence arterial and bone…
BPA may cause heart disease in women, research shows
Public release date: 10-Jun-2009 - The effect of BPA on these cardiac arrhythmias was amplified when exposed to estradiol, the major estrogen hormone in humans.” CINCINNATI—New research by a…
Oral contraceptives associated with increased risk of lupus
Public release date: 7-Apr-2009 - This was mostly limited to the first three months of use with first- and second-generation contraceptives - “Our findings that longer-term use of contraceptives is…
Bisphenol A linked to chemotherapy resistance
Public release date: 8-Oct-2008 CINCINNATI—Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments, say University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists. The research study, led by UC's Nira…
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