News tagged with personal care

The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?

Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rapunzel, Leonardo and the physics of the ponytail

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research provides the first mathematical understanding of the shape of a ponytail and could have implications for the textile industry, computer animation and personal care products.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Emerging contaminants of concern' detected throughout Narragansett Bay watershed

A group of hazardous chemical compounds that are common in industrial processes and personal care products but which are not typically monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency have been detected throughout the Narragansett ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanoparticles cause brain injury in fish

Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Detecting molecules on skin

NPL is developing a state-of-the-art technique called 'ambient surface mass spectrometry' that can quickly detect small molecules on the surface of the skin and could benefit the $250 billion a year personal ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Most Canadians can be uniquely identified from their date of birth and postal code

There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their personal data if they believe ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microsoft 'vault ' open for dying Google Health records

Microsoft on Monday offered its HealthVault as a new care center for digitized medical records kept at Google's dying Health service.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report proposes strategies for reducing pollutants in drinking water systems

Researchers have known for more than 40 years that pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) such as hormones, prescription drugs and insecticides, can end up in drinking water systems. A report prepared by the Texas ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New woes for silicones in cosmetics and personal care products

At a time when cosmetics, shampoos, skin creams, and other personal care products already are going green — with manufacturers switching to plant-derived extracts and other natural ingredients — government regulators ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple feedback could be effective therapy for addictive behaviors

As mental health care costs and problem gambling rates continue to rise, University of Missouri researchers are developing a personalized feedback tool that could serve as an effective and inexpensive way for people with ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report: Mexico's disabled live in squalor, vanish

(AP) -- Mexico has done little over the past decade to improve the squalid living conditions of mentally disabled adults and children who are in institutions, an international advocacy group charged Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New book examines health and environmental impacts of common (and not-so-common) chemicals

Chemicals pervade our lives. While the benefits to society from the development of these chemicals have been impressive, enabling safer, more efficient and more convenient consumer products and life-saving ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rivers closest to Toronto have highest concentrations of PCBs, other chemicals: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Toronto study of the concentrations of PCBs and other chemicals in the rivers running into Lake Ontario reveals significantly higher concentrations in areas closest to the centre of Toronto, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Poll finds most Californians unprepared for costs of long-term care

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifty-eight percent of registered California voters age 40 and older feel unprepared to pay for services if they could no longer care for themselves and needed long-term care.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Middle-aged Americans reporting more mobility related disabilities, study finds

The proportion of older middle-aged Americans who report disabilities related to mobility increased significantly from 1997 to 2007, in contrast to the disability decline that has been found among Americans ages 65 and over, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1