Sentences with phrase «of environmental health scientists»

«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.»

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Dr Chito Medina, MASIPAG partner scientist, said that Health Impact Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments as required under the JDC should be done by an independent group of experts, and the process can not be confined from the data presented only by the proponents.

This has brought together a wide spectrum of leaders in their fields: regenerative agriculturalists, biophysical and social scientists, education and policy professionals, indigenous leaders, health and environmental practitioners and others.

One concern, according to the public comments, is that the federal panel deemed studies funded by industry and conducted by industry scientists to be more «appropriate for consideration» than papers by academic scientists funded by NIH and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

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.

The ability of scientists to work across borders is clearly essential to U.S. public - health and environmental goals.

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.

Environmental scientist Michael Aitken of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health predicts that recycling will become increasingly important as a supplement to water supplies around the country.

Comprehensive genome analysis: more than 85,000 participants from 35 studies Under the direction of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the United States, the team of international scientists analyzed the data from a total of 85,170 participants from 35 study cohorts.

«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.

Indeed, the news comes at a time when the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, N.C., completes an ambitious, two - year, $ 30 - million effort to evaluate the chemical and launches a new set of cooperative research agreements with independent scientists.

«The system could also be adapted for use with other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

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 allhealth 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 allHealth 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 allHealth 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.

Although halting plans at this point would be an admission of government error, the openness following the Chongqing meeting raised the hopes of worried scientists that officials would take action to minimize the project's environmental and public health fallout.

In a study to be published Thursday, March 30, in the journal Nature, scientists quantify and map the shift of environmental and health burdens brought on by globalization and international trade.

When the kids ate only organic fruits, veggies, juice, pasta, cereal and salsa, the levels of several organophosphate pesticides in their bodies plummeted (as measured by urine analysis), scientists reported in 2006 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

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.

That might sound like a good deal to all kinds of American researchers and foreign scientists currently working in the U.S. in light of massive looming Trump budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and, of course, the Environmental Protection Agency.

«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.

Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.

Led by environmental health physician David O. Carpenter of the University at Albany (SUNY), scientists examined more than 700 farmed and wild salmon from North America, South America, and Europe, looking for 14 organochlorines thought to cause cancer and birth defects.

Small doses of lead may have big impacts on reading and math scores, scientists report April 7 in Environmental Health.

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

«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.

Formerly a project director Florida Atlantic University's Center for Environmental Studies, Hammer has consulted with Union of Concerned Scientists and now serves Florida field manager for the Moms Clean Air Force, a group seeking to «further the public's awareness of climate change on children's health,» the White House says in a blog post.

But environmental scientists, regulators, and current and former EPA officials warn the reductions would devastate the agency's efforts to carry out its mission of protecting human health and the environment.

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.

Scientists in the team of Hermann Brenner from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg, in collaboration with colleagues from the Saarland Cancer Registry and the Helmholtz Research Center for Environmental Health in Munich, have now pursued this question.

Scientists need to develop much more knowledge about the environmental and health risks of biotechnology.

«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.

«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.

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.

University of Western Australia researchers are looking for citizen scientists to send them soil samples from around the state to better understand region's biodiversity and environmental health

«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.

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.

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.

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.

The 2009 young scientist award on research on occupational health and exposure was given to Craig Moore of Newcastle University for his platform presentation «The influence of everyday clothing on percutaneous absorption and distribution of model penetrants in vitro» at the OEESC (Occupational and Environmental Exposure of Skin to Chemicals) 2009 conference.

The scientists listed here were invited to join the Panel in recognition of their important work in the field of environmental health related especially to environmental risks for breast cancer, and of their commitment to the mission of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners.

The intensely bright light produced at the ESRF offers scientists unique opportunities to explore materials and living matter in a multitude of fields, ranging from chemistry and materials physics to archaeology and cultural heritage and from structural biology, health and life sciences to environmental sciences, information science and nanotechnologies.

Abecasis leads the University's Biostatistics department, which is training a new generation of scientists and making contributions to the statistical and computational machinery for the analysis of diverse types of biomedical data — including not only genomic data but also electronic health records, registry data and health surveys, a variety of imaging data types, and environmental exposures, among others.

According to the report, that complexity - including the sum of genetic, environmental, and life - stage factors that play a part in the onset of human disease - should now be addressed by bringing together emerging new tools and methods that give scientists insight into the 100,000 chemicals routinely used in commerce but largely untested for health effects.

3 Ways to Cook Smarter Don't microwave in plastic (or put hot food or beverages in plastic containers): Scientists warn that estrogenlike chemicals could leach into your food by doing so — possibly even if you're using plastic that's free of a well - known culprit called bisphenol A (BPA), according to an article published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

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.

Robert Verkerk PhD (BSc MSc DIC PhD) is an internationally acclaimed scientist with over 25 years of experience specialising in agricultural, environmental and health sustainability.

Artist, scientist, and inventor Natalie Jeremijenko, director of the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU will be joined by Jean Case, philanthropist, investor, and pioneer in the world of interactive technologies, and Megan Smith, the United States Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.