Environmental Health News Highlights
03/03/10
Biomonitoring
EHI joined with other learning and developmental disabilities groups to sponsor a Biomonitoring Project on chemicals linked to neurodevelopmental health outcomes. Biomonitoring assesses human exposures to natural and synthetic chemicals, based on sampling and analysis of an individual's tissues and fluids.
We all carry an assortment of industrial chemicals in our bodies, including manmade chemicals like bisphenol-A and PCBs and heavy metals like mercury and lead. Some industrial chemicals, like perchlorate, stay in the body only a short time (hours or days) before being excreted while others are broken down into chemical components and still others accumulate in fatty tissues and remain there for years. The sum of industrial chemicals in a person's body has been called the person’s "body burden"., Washington, DC.
03/03/10
Teleconferences
To advance the understanding of current research regarding toxic exposures and developmental disabilities (DD), this well-attended research and science teleconference series was developed. The 2009 teleconference series highlighted the global implications of chemical policy on neurodevelopment; protecting our most vulnerable populations from toxic exposures; the impact of prenatal tobacco smoke on neurodevelopment; the serious implications of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on the developing brain; and AAIDD’s growing role in chemical policy reform. , Washington, DC.
03/03/10
Expectant Moms
“Expecting Moms,” is an EHI publication that informs prospective mothers of environmental exposures that may impact healthy development of a fetus or infant. The brochure covers in-home exposures, workplace exposures and outdoor exposures and is distributed at Planned Parenthood clinics, doctors’ offices, and any other accessible health clinics or community centers. “Expecting Moms” has been translated into Spanish (link to Spanish pamphlet itself in pdf) and is available on the website under Projects and ActivitiesEspañol, Washington, DC.
02/04/10
Brain Development and Toxic Chemicals
Learning and Developmental Disabilities Groups first-ever
biomonitoring project on environmental neurotoxins LDDI, Washington, D.C.
10/01/09
10/09
An October article in Environmental Health Perspectives dramatically illustrates the connection between environmental exposures and birth defects. Read the whole article at EHP http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2009117-10/focus-abs.html. (Environmental Health Perspectives
10/01/09
Environmental Factors in Birth Defects
An October article in Environmental Health Perspectives dramatically illustrates the connection between environmental exposures and birth defects. Read the whole article at EHP http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/117-10/focus.html
Environmental Health Perspectives
07/20/09
Air pollution -- IQ Linked
Groundbreaking study shows that there is a link between children's lower IQs and their ex[posure to air pollution prenatally. Washington Post
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