News: UCSF Makes Breakthrough With Chemical Exposure Study

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UCSF Makes Breakthrough With Chemical Exposure Study
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/22/ucsf-makes-breakthrough-with-chemical-exposure-study/

There is little known about what kinds of chemicals may enter people’s bodies, and experts say there are tens of thousands of them. so we don’t really know how they affect human health – particularly in pregnant women.

But now, scientists at UCSF have found a way to scan for hundreds of chemical exposures. Previous technology only looked for about a dozen at a time.

Doctors tested the new technology on 75 women who are patients at UCSF.

“We found that — on average — they had about 56 suspect chemicals. Meaning we suspect that there’s these chemicals in their blood; anywhere from 30 to 75 was the range,” said Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Director of the Reproductive Health & Environment Program at UCSF.

The goal is to find which chemicals are harmful to pregnant women.