Sentences with phrase «environmental health scientist who»

«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.

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Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

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.

«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.

«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 Univehealth scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins UniveHealth at Johns Hopkins University.

«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.

For scientists such as Weaver who are concerned about public health, the environmental tilt is disquieting.

Milloy, a longtime critic of environmental and health regulations who founded the Web site JunkScience.com, argues university scientists on the boards are just as compromised as any industry representative.

A chemist by training and an environmental activist by avocation, Subra is a true original: «the people's scientist,» says Michele Roberts, a scientist who is a national co-coordinator at the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in Wasenvironmental activist by avocation, Subra is a true original: «the people's scientist,» says Michele Roberts, a scientist who is a national co-coordinator at the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in WasEnvironmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in Washington, D.C.

«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 goinghealth 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 goingHealth, who consulted on the report and suggests chromium tanning for leather is not going away.

They were the daughters of more than 15,000 women from the Oakland area who were recruited by scientists to investigate how environmental exposures, even those that occur before birth, can affect health over a lifetime.

«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.

Andrew Weil's Environmental Working Group consists of a team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers who pore over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and their own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

«Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm pose a massive environmental and human health risk when they enter our waterways,» said Abby Barrows, a marine research scientist with Adventure Scientists and College of the Atlantic, who is featured in the film and has analyzed thousands of water samples from around the world for microplastics.

«Tom Webster, associate chair of environmental health at Boston University's School of Public Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.&health at Boston University's School of Public Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.&Health and a paper coauthor, says scientists are particularly concerned about the potential risk that such chemicals pose to small children, who can unintentionally consume relatively large amounts of dust.»

Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.