Sentences with phrase «environmental health scientist»
They had a visitor — the top environmental health scientist in the country.
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Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on couples» reproductive success via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
A new three - year, $ 440,000 study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now underway to investigate whether phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on the couples» reproductive success, via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
«Decreased adiponectin, if it happens in vivo, appears to be a bad thing and could result in increased heart disease,» says environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.
«A large team of environmental health scientists and green chemists developed a methodology called the Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption for identifying endocrine disruptors to the highest levels of contemporary science, that we published in Green Chemistry in 2013.»
«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.
«It underscores the necessity to control ozone entry into buildings in regions with even moderate ambient ozone levels,» says environmental health scientist Michael Apte of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
A research team led by SDSU environmental health scientist and lead author Neil Klepeis, behavioral health researcher and principal investigator Melbourne Hovell, and co-investigator Suzanne Hughes recruited into the study nearly 300 families living in San Diego with at least one child aged 14 and younger and one smoker.
In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.
In the first study of its kind, environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg and neuroscientist Mary Catanese at the University of Massachusetts Amherst examined the effects of the compound bisphenol S (BPS) on maternal behavior and related brain regions in mice.
At the same time, human activities such as deforestation are creating more habitat in which the mosquitoes that spread malaria can thrive, according to environmental health scientist Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
«The chromium process is old, historic and efficient, and any other process is not likely to dominate,» says environmental health scientist Jack Caravanos of the City University of New York School of Public Health, who consulted on the report and suggests chromium tanning for leather is not going away.
«This peptide acts as a «zip code» in that it enables the binding of the nanoparticles only to blood vessels within the tumor and not normal blood vessels,» says Alnawaz Rehemtulla, a radiologist and environmental health scientist who co-authored the study.
Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.
Summit County Health Dept. Environmental Health Director Phil Bondurant and Environmental Health Scientist Derek Siddodway talk about Radon and the importance of testing and Jessica Lang of the Jessica Lang Dance Company talks about the company's performance Friday night at the Park City Eccles Center.
The manufacturer collaborated with environmental health scientist, Dr. Ted Myatt, ScD to search for these coziest cities in the United States.
AMHERST, Mass. — A new three - year, $ 440,000 study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now underway to investigate whether phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on the couples» reproductive success, via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.
These unsung heroes who protect the nation's health throughout the year include our health inspectors, environmental health scientists, public health sanitarians, nurses and educators and emergency preparedness coordinators, among others.
Environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center and his colleagues discovered that even those who had been fasting for 24 hours still had high BPA levels in their urine, using a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey of 1,469 adults.
«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.
«There was a very limited amount of monitoring data, and you wouldn't expect much more,» says Paul Lioy, an environmental health scientist at the Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, part of Rutgers and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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Shanna Swan, an environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said she is concerned by the findings because preterm babies already have «a whole lot stacked against them.»
«Right now, companies that make chairs or cars or lipstick don't know which of the chemicals they incorporate into their products are safe,» says Michael Wilson, an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
«Our research suggests that environmental factors may be contributing to attention problems in a significant way,» said Frederica Perera, an environmental health scientist at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health who was the study's lead author.
«Having these individual measures of exposure reinforces the possibility that there is a causal connection,» said Jonathan Chevrier, an environmental health scientist at McGill University in Montreal.
«We are now seeing the potential long - term health consequences of introducing chemicals whose safety we know very little about,» said Jonathan Chevrier, an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who did not participate in the new study.
«It's certainly plausible that any outside source that alters estrogen levels, even slightly, could contribute to gynecological diseases,» said Dr. Megan Schwarzman, a family physician at San Francisco General Hospital and an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
The test is part of a five - tiered testing system called the Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption (TiPED) that was developed by 24 chemists, biologists and environmental health scientists, including Collins, for chemists and manufacturers to use to determine whether their chemical has endocrine disrupting activity.
An environmental health scientist at The University of Texas at Arlington is studying whether a link exists between the risk of autism in children and exposure to environmental chemicals.
Samuel Myers is an environmental health scientist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass..
When Jonathon Ericson, environmental health scientist, began planning a two - day conference on toxic metals, his thoughts turned to the internal combustion engine.
Vijay Limaye is an environmental health scientist working as a climate change and health science fellow at NRDC's Science Center.