Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson appears to be the lone Massachusetts state official taking President Donald Trump's side in the shutdown of many federal government services in a dispute over Trump's proposed border wall.
Hodgson, a Republican who often emphasizes border security and cooperation with federal immigration authorities, stopped short of praising the shutdown and didn't mention Trump by name in a written statement Saturday. But he praised the wall and criticized Congress.
The findings of a longitudinal study by the School of Public Health (SPH) at UC-Berkeley suggest that exposure to certain chemicals in personal care products like toothpaste that can act as hormone blockers may cause girls to begin puberty at an earlier-than-normal age. The results were published in the most recent edition of Human Reproduction, a scientific journal published by Oxford University Press.
According to the SPH, the data were collected over years as researchers followed the development of 338 children from birth to adolescence. All data were drawn from the Center for the Health of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CA) study, or CHAMACOS, that began in 1999.
