NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 24: An Indian man collects water as he bathes in an industrial waste-foam polluted section of the Yamuna River, on the outskirts of New Delhi on May 24, 2013 in New Delhi, India ...

Pharmaceuticals used in health care provide huge health and economic benefits to society, but are now found extensively as pollutants across global waterways. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As pharmaceutical consumption has risen in the past couple of decades, pollution from the companies that manufacture these drugs ...

During their production, use, and disposal, pharmaceutical ingredients in prescription and over-the-counter drugs are released into the environment, especially in surface waters. Results from a recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 24—MONTREAL — The drugs we take may be good for our health, but increasingly, scientists are discovering that as we expel ...

India, May 23 -- Pharmaceutical compounds detected in urban rats were linked to changing risks of zoonotic infections, highlighting possible effects of environmental pollution on wildlife health. (1).

Many of the world’s waterways are awash with varying levels of pharmaceuticals, according to a wide body of research. These medical byproducts come from all different sources, including industrial ...

A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world's rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in more than a quarter of the locations studied. The new study looked at ...

Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceuticals have been found in more than a quarter of the world's rivers, according to a study called the Global Monitoring of Pharmaceuticals Project, led by the ...

Pharmaceutical pollution is the contamination of the environment with pharmaceutical compounds, which can include a wide range of substances such as antibiotics, hormones, painkillers, antidepressants ...

Pharmaceuticals are polluting waterways on all five continents — doing so at potentially toxic concentrations in more than a quarter of 258 global rivers sampled in a new, multi-institutional study.