Data Omission in Key EPA Insecticide Study Shows Need for Review of Industry Analysis

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Data Omission in Key EPA Insecticide Study Shows Need for Review of Industry Analysis

  For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America. Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide created in the late 1960s by the Dow Chemical Co., has been linked to serious health problems, especially in […]

Mailed Self-sampling Kits Helped More Women Get Screened for Cervical Cancer

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Mailed Self-sampling Kits Helped More Women Get Screened for Cervical Cancer

The University of Washington and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute have found that mailed self-sampling kits for HPV testing did help more women get screened for cervical cancer.socialmediasl444/Flickr Signaling a potential major change in cervical cancer screening options for American women, a new study found that mailed self-sampling kits that test for HPV — […]