The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby
The shower curtain hanging in your bathroom. The garden hose coiled on the back porch. The vinyl flooring under your feet. The deodorant on the bathroom shelf.
These are not your usual suspects in infant mortality.
Yet a landmark study published this year in the peer-reviewed journal eClinicalMedicine makes a case linking chemicals embedded in all of them to one of the most devastating patterns in global public health: babies born too soon, and too many of them dying.
