http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/21/bushmeat-child-anemia/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/21/bushmeat-child-anemia/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:11 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19695 When the dinner menu includes endangered species, human nutritional needs must contend with efforts to manage wildlife resources, according to a new UC Berkeley study. Researchers estimate that a loss of access to bushmeat as a source of food would lead to a 29 percent jump in the number of children suffering from anemia. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/21/bushmeat-child-anemia/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/20/prenatal-pesticide-exposure-lower-iq/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/20/prenatal-pesticide-exposure-lower-iq/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:01:47 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=9489 A new UC Berkeley study has found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides – widely used on food crops – is related to lower intelligence scores in children. Every tenfold increase in measures of organophosphates detected during a mother's pregnancy corresponded to a 5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in children at age 7, the researchers found. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/20/prenatal-pesticide-exposure-lower-iq/feed/ 0 http://sph.berkeley.edu/news/2011/pies_award.php http://sph.berkeley.edu/news/2011/pies_award.php#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:03:43 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=5261 Cheri Pies, clinical professor at the Berkeley's School of Public Health, has been named a "champion" in the field of maternal and child health by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.]]> http://sph.berkeley.edu/news/2011/pies_award.php/feed/ 0