DDT on my brain, on my brain. “I was blown away by these scary lyrics, which show how strong the antipathy was toward DDT during that time,” Dr. Whelan says. “I was amazed the radio show was able to ...

Humans cannot get DDT contamination from swimming or surfing, scientists say. But the primary concern over the underwater dumping site is how the barrels are affecting animals and the ecosystem ...

After they stopped using DDT, malaria came raging back and other control methods have had only modest success. Which is why Arata Kochi, head of the WHO's antimalaria campaign, has made the move ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The pesticide DDT is still killing robins 50 years after Rachel Carson started the environmental movement with DDT warnings in her book: "Silent Spring." Back in September 1962 ...

The Los Angeles Times reviewed shipping logs from a disposal company supporting Montrose Chemical Corp. of California, a DDT-producing company. The logs showed 2,000 barrels of DDT-laced sludge were ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — The state will stop testing for organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT, in fish from Illinois lakes and rivers. The Illinois Department of Public Health, in conjunction with ...

So begins "DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud" by the late J. Gordon Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Entomology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

In World War II, U.S. forces used DDT to prevent diseases like malaria or typhus. In a 1946 promotional film from the Army Air Forces, a grainy black-and-white B-25 bomber can be seen spraying a ...

There are many analogies between the environmental crisis of the 1960s — caused by the toxic pesticide DDT — and today's widespread contamination of the oceans with plastic, a Canadian marine ...

And once you spray DDT, it’s out there for a long time. “If you go to any river in the U.S., and push your finger down into the mud one or two inches, the primary contaminant you will find ...

Exposure to a once widely used pesticide, DDT, may increase the chances of developing Alzheimer's disease, suggest US researchers. A study, published in JAMA Neurology, showed patients with ...

DDT also lingers in the human body where it is broken down into DDE. The team at Rutgers University and Emory University tested levels of DDE in the blood of 86 people with Alzheimer's disease and ...