«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.
«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.
«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.
«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.
Not exact matches
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.
«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.
«When it comes to human and
environmental health, sterile is not necessarily better,»
said co-author Russ Vetter, a senior
scientist at NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
«
Environmental scientists and cosmetic companies must work together to get the right compromise between human and environmental health,&ra
Environmental scientists and cosmetic companies must work together to get the right compromise between human and
environmental health,&ra
environmental health,» he
said.
«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.
«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.
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 Was
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 Was
Environmental Justice and
Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in Washington, D.C.
«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.
The discovery could help
scientists understand how social, cultural, and
environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in
health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors
say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.
«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.
«Most buildings aren't designed with people's
health in mind,»
says lead author Robin Dodson, an
environmental exposure
scientist at Silent Spring Institute.
The
scientists said the study, reported online in
Environmental Health Perspectives, suggested that EPA air - pollution standards may not be stringent enough to protect developing fetuses.
«Those programs have been so successful in advancing our scientific understanding and our ability to address the ways that
environmental chemicals can impact children's
health,»
said Tracey Woodruff, a former senior
scientist and policy adviser at the EPA under the Clinton and Bush administrations.
«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.
«This study highlights the need for countries that are most at risk to actively monitor their populations» nutritional sufficiency, and, more fundamentally, the need for countries to curb human - caused CO2 emissions,»
said Samuel Myers, a research
scientist in the department of
environmental health at Harvard University in the US.
Kirk Smith, associate director of
environmental and health sciences at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been sayi
environmental and
health sciences at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been saying all
health sciences at the Center for Occupational and
Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been sayi
Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been saying all
Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what
scientists have been
saying all along.
«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.»