Sentences with phrase «on environmental chemical exposure»

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Years of exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, paint strippers and other chemicals could be having more subtle effects on the way in which genes within the sperm are tagged and used later on.

Environmental chemical exposure can be the result of diverse conditions including: workplace conditions (where you are exposed to a high level of chemicals on a daily basis), living near farmland (where pesticides are sprayed), exposure to high traffic areas, or even the cumulative effects of everyday common chemicals in the household.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

If we're talking about environmental chemicals, we know there are pharmaceutical exposures that may predispose women to breast cancer later on.

«It involves toxicology, how chemicals go from air to water, exposure routes of environmental contaminants, and how to measure each one, leading to controls on how chemicals move through the environment.

Gulf War veterans with low - level exposure to chemical weapons show lasting adverse effects on brain structure and memory function, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

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 conexposure 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 conExposure of Skin to Chemicals) 2009 conference.

Much of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context of ambient air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.

Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health, with a specific interest in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns associated with targeted exposure of racial and ethnic minorities to endocrine disruptors and the role that exposure plays in health care disparities.

In the Canadian Maternal - Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals Study, newborns showed significant sex differences in leptin and adiponectin levels, which were associated to maternal in utero BPA exposures (181).

Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.

This research project is in support of the EPA's «Chemical Safety for Sustainability» (CSS) research program and will focus on utilizing high - resolution mass spectrometry to evaluate human exposure to environmental chemicals.

Centers for Disease Control Report, «National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals,» 2001.

«Patient exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and other stressors is ubiquitous, and preconception and prenatal exposure to toxic environmental agents can have a profound and lasting effect on reproductive health across the life course.»

He realized that the reason for cellular degradation is our environmental toxic exposure on a variety of levels — chemical, electro - magnetic, emotional, etc..

US Centers for Disease Control Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals

«The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, «Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals,» Jan 31, 2003, http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/.

The Environmental Protection Agency has found that a child's exposure to the dangerous chemicals in these and other products can exceed safe levels by 50,000 percent — and that's just on the day the pet gets treated.

Dr. Ainsworth's research focuses on understanding equine pulmonary biology and immunology with specific interest in neonatal septicemia, equine neurodevelopmental problems resulting from environmental chemical exposure, and the genetic basis of equine recurrent laryngeal hemiplegia.

Her team focused on findings for pregnant women from the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, a broad, ongoing federal survey of levels of a wide range of chemicals in AChemicals, a broad, ongoing federal survey of levels of a wide range of chemicals in Achemicals in Americans.

The trick is to use the chemicals without human or environmental exposures, thereby producing a material that is itself environmentally beneficial by breaking our reliance on fossil fuels.

See the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals site for more information.

CDC's Environmental Health Laboratory also collaborates with other federal agencies, academic institutions, governments, and other organizations on about 50 to 70 studies of exposure to environmental chemicaEnvironmental Health Laboratory also collaborates with other federal agencies, academic institutions, governments, and other organizations on about 50 to 70 studies of exposure to environmental chemicaenvironmental chemicals each year.

Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.

Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Meghan was an associate in the New York firm Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry's insurance coverage group, where she represented insurance company clients in insurance coverage litigation, and advised insurers on exposure and liability issues in wide array of tort and commercial contexts, including mass tort and class action litigation involving pharmaceuticals, chemical, transportation, news and entertainment, and oil and gas; environmental suits; FDA compliance claims; unfair competition and false advertising claims; intellectual property claims; construction defect; personal injury; product liability; and associated breach of contract claims.

He is a frequent lecturer on the issues of environmental law, asbestos litigation, chemical exposure cases and the importance of access to the civil justice system.