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“The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 - Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, provides detailed information on environmental controls for relative humidity to help in this effort,” said Frank Selamie, President of CTSI. “Even the U.S. ...
These new directions reflect recommendations made by the Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee (IBCERCC) in 2013. IBCERCC was congressionally mandated to review the state of the science around breast cancer and environmental influences by the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act. ...
Committed to social development, GE in India is closely engaged with local communities on social and environmental issues. For more information, visit: www.ge.com/in, facebook.com/GEIndia, twitter.com/GEIndia, ...
The highly competitive grant, known as the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) award, started in 2006, and has become a model for funding emerging scientists, typically in their mid-30s. ...
Emotional and behavioral problems show up even with low exposure to lead, and as blood lead levels increase in children, so do the problems, according to research funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. ...
Sandler heads the Epidemiology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of NIH. "We know that everyone wants answers now, and we do, too. ...
Zongli Xu, Ph.D., and Jack Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of NIH, identified DNA methylation sites across the human genome that changed with age. ...
The conference, Protecting Children's Health for a Lifetime: Environmental Health Research Meets Clinical Practice and Public Policy, will feature interdisciplinary presentations and discussions that explore connections between research findings, clinical and community practice, protecting children from harmful environmental exposures, and approaches for sharing ...
“Gene variations occur naturally, and may become common in a population if they convey a health benefit,” said Douglas Bell, Ph.D., author on the paper and researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of NIH. “It appears that this particular variant could help protect light-skinned individuals from UV skin damage, like ...
“For more than 25 years, EPA has gathered critical environmental data to provide communities with information that empowers them to protect their air, water, and land,” said Renee P. Wynn, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Environmental Information. “Through the TRI University Challenge, ...
The challenge was held by the National Institutes of Health, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. ...
By offering NIH-funded, evidence-based asthma interventions to children and caretakers, the Head-Off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana study has improved asthma symptoms and conditions in children. ...
Scientists from the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Duke University Medical Center published their findings in people and mice online Oct. 14 in the journal Nature Medicine. ...
The study is being conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and is expected to last up to 10 years. Over time, the GuLF STUDY will generate important data that may help inform policy decisions on health care and health services in the region and its findings may also influence ...
Michael Waalkes, Ph.D., and his team at the National Toxicology Program Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of NIH, had shown previously that normal cells become cancerous when they are treated with inorganic arsenic. ...
The study was conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. ...
” The development of methods for evaluating chemical toxicity has the potential to revolutionize the assessment of new environmental chemicals and the development of new drugs for therapeutic use. ...
Cooking stoves with chimneys can lower exposure to indoor wood smoke and reduce the rate of severe pneumonia by 30 percent in children less than 18 months of age, according to a new air pollution study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. ...
The goals of this forum will be to inform participants of: The relationship between children’s health and environmental contamination/protection The relationship between children’s health and environmental justice; that is, the disparities between minority children’s health and non-minority children’s health as it ...
Press availability with Congressman David Price and Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program 10:00-11:00 a.m. ...