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Hell on Wheels: Port Authority’s Broken Promise Is Choking Newark’s Kids By Max Rivlin-Nadler It had been a rough couple of years for Tanisha Garner. In 2010 she left an abusive marriage and moved out of Newark’s West Ward, the neighborhood where she was born and raised; around the same time, she lost her job […]

The use of pesticides for crop production has grown rapidly in the developing world and specifically in Thailand during the last decade. As a result, children living on rice farms in Thailand are exposed to higher concentrations of organophosphate (OP) and pyrethroid (PYR) pesticides than Thai children living on shrimp farms or US children from […]

Exit Pathway in the Kidneys Protects Against Herbicide Toxicity Weed control is a challenge that farmers confront on a daily basis. Paraquat is an effective weed killer (herbicide), but at high concentrations it can be toxic to the lungs and kidneys. Our study aimed to identify how the body gets rid of paraquat by attaching […]

Liver Disease The liver is one the most vital organs of the body. One of its main jobs is to filter the blood coming from the stomach and intestines, before passing the blood to the rest of the body. The blood coming from the stomach and the intestines contains nutrients and chemical substances absorbed from […]