New research finding tie exposure to pesticides, rodenticides in pregnancy to rise in childhood leukaemia mortality
Last week, the White House released its Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) strategy report. The report states that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institutes of Health will “develop a research and evaluation framework for cumulative exposure” to chemicals.
Mom in central Kenya jailed for 8 months for child neglect, feeding teenaged daughter on bhang
The teenaged girl not enrolled in school and had allegedly been introduced to substance abuse – cannabis sativa – by her mother. She fed on bhang when there was no food in the house. Authorities further noted that the girl was often forced to sleep on cold floors outside their squalid house, especially when her mother was entertaining lovers in their poorly maintained hovel.
Adverse childhood experiences: Study finds Kenyan adolescents highly susceptible to mental distress
The findings also pointed to socioeconomic and family-related vulnerabilities where adolescents with only one surviving parent had 18 per cent higher adversity scores and those performing poorly in school were 15 per cent more likely to have faced adversity.
