Article: Landfill sites linked to genetic disorders.(News)

Article: Proximity To Landfill Sites Linked To Increased ...
Genomics & Genetics Weekly;  February 15, 2002 ;     693 words ... ... hazardous waste landfill sites. In the January ... Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K ... proximity to landfill sites and the risk ... residents to landfill sites is needed to ... Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street ...

Article: Toxic waste landfill sites may cause birth defects
The Scotsman;  August 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... two miles of toxic landfill sites have an increased ... School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which investigated ... around 21 industrial landfill sites in the UK, Belgium ... further away from the landfill sites women lived. One ...

Article: LARGEST EVER STUDY INTO HEALTH OF POPULATIONS AROUND ...
PR Newswire;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... health risks for populations living around landfill sites is published today. The Small Area Health ... cancers in populations living within 2km of landfill sites. The group examined 9,565 landfill sites that were in operation between 1982 and ...

Article: New research gives landfill sites a green future.
M2 Presswire;  May 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... UK Government: New research gives landfill sites a green future(C)1994-2008 M2 ... COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30052008 Restoring landfill sites by turning them into greenspace, such ... today shows. Many local people find landfill sites detrimental to their local area and ...

Article: Child defects 'higher near landfill sites'
Evening News - Scotland;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... been found in children born near landfill sites, a study revealed today. The ... first to suggest a risk from landfill sites which do not take hazardous waste. There are about 300 licensed landfill sites in Scotland, taking about 12 ...

Article: Landfill sites linked to risk of birth defects ...
The Independent - London;  August 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ...BABIES BORN near landfill sites for hazardous waste are at extra ... babies born near the 774 special landfill sites in Britain which take hazardous ... was not possible to determine landfill sites were the cause, it said. More ...

Article: Adverse pregnancy outcomes near landfill sites in ...
Archives of Environmental Health;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of domestic and industrial waste in landfill sites may expose local residents to dioxins ... associated with living in proximity to landfill sites, especially those sites which deal ... babies whose mothers lived close to landfill sites used for the disposal of hazardous ...