In the past DDT was seen as the chemical most likely to end the scourge of malaria and help control agricultural pests. In time, its hazards became better known. But despite worldwide bans on its use, ...

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 ...

» Will man’s extensive use of DDT upset the balance of nature in our forests, fields, arid streams? FROM ancient times diseases conveyed by insects have been the main cause of casualties in military ...

A U.N.-brokered accord to eliminate the use of dangerous pollutants contains an exception for its restricted use to fight malaria. “We support South Africa’s use of DDT,” said Rich Liroff, director of ...

Seaweed: You find it in chocolate milk, ice cream and sherbet. Mayonnaise, cheese and instant pudding. Latex and cosmetics. Sushi and fertilizers. Now seaweed may have another use: cleaning up soil ...

A new study reveals a mechanism linking the pesticide DDT to Alzheimer's disease. A new study led by researchers from Florida International University (FIU) reveals a mechanism linking the pesticide ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...

Seventy years ago, all over the world, malaria was killing hundreds of thousands of people — until a powerful new weapon practically wiped out the mosquito-borne disease.

Rachael Carson's watershed book 'Silent Spring' unleashed the anti-DDT wave in USA in the early sixties triggering off revolutionary changes in the prevailing law. The U.S. Environment Protection ...

(Reuters Health) - Adult daughters of women exposed to the once-common pesticide DDT during pregnancy may have an increased risk for developing breast cancer, a study suggests. Researchers followed ...

The October 22, 2009 paper by Bornman, et al., reports urogenital birth defects (UGBDs) in South Africa as a result of DDT exposure. After obliquely inferring DDT may not be the actual cause of the ...