New research on farm women has shown that contact with some commonly used pesticides in farm work may increase their risk of allergic asthma. "Farm women are an understudied occupational group," said Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and lead author of the study. "More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks. [click link for full article]
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