There has been quite a lot of concern in the scientific community lately about increasing fertility problems and mounting evidence of widespread DNA damage in the general population. One study in France recently found that male fertility has decreased about two percent each year for the past 20 years. DDT is still widely used in many developing countries. A report6 released by the National Center for Health Statistics says that death rates for persons who attend at least one year of college are half that of high school dropouts. Just finishing high school seems to decrease your risk of dying by about 23 percent.
Female dropouts are also eight times more likely to smoke during pregnancies.
Respiratory Inefficiency Caused by Glaucoma Medication Many persons as they grow older find that normal physical activity becomes more difficult, with simple tasks such as walking up stairs leaving them breathless. A new study finds that in many cases the cause may be not old age, but eye drops. Researchers have found that the glaucoma medication timolol, long known to aggravate respiratory problems in asthmatics, decreases lung function in otherwise normal persons as much as 15 percent. Many patients taken off the medication during the study found that they no longer suffered from the fatigue and lack of stamina that plagued them while they took the eye drops, though few had made the connection to the drug therapy. Researchers feel that many elderly persons using the eye drops will blame the resulting breathlessness and inability to exercise on old age.