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Protecting Children from Environmental Toxins

0203 Epidemics of overt toxicity following widespread environmental contamination from commercial toxins heralded the discovery of children’s enhanced vulnerability to lead, methyl mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and tobacco [1,2,3,4,5] (Box 1). Over the past three decades, researchers have found that remarkably low-level exposures to these toxins are linked with less overt symptoms ...

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Protectors or Perpetrators

To The Editor: World Health Day is celebrated globally every year on 7 April, to mark the Anniversary of the 1948 founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). The aim of celebrating this day every year is to raise awareness on a key global health issue. The theme of World Health Day 2009 is – "Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies", which focuses on the importance of investing in h...

Trials and Tribulations of Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards

Society is increasingly aware of the profound impact that the environment has on children's health. Not surprisingly, there is increasing public scrutiny about children's exposures to environmental hazards, especially for disadvantaged children. These trends underscore the ethical imperative to develop a framework to protect children from environmental hazards. Such a framework must include reg...

Protecting children: reducing their environmental tobacco smoke exposure.

The present review examines the current status of efforts to reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS) among infants and young children. Estimates of the number of children exposed vary, but it is probably over 20 million or about 35% of all U.S. children. Healthy People 2010 sets as an objective the reduction, to 10%, of the proportion of children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at ...