Teratology Society Public Affairs Committee position paper: developmental toxicity of endocrine disruptors to humans.

Teratology public affairs committee position paper: Pregnancy labeling for prescription drugs: Ten years later.

September 12, 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of a public hearing that was hoped to be the death knell of the pregnancy labeling categories for pharmaceuticals, the A, B, C, D, X system of designations that was put in place by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1979 (US FDA, 1979). The replacement of the pregnancy labeling categories had been sought by the Public Affairs Committee of...

Statement of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society on the importance of smoking cessation during pregnancy.

The low down on low-dose endocrine disruptors.

most complex environmental health threats known today. By mimicking natural hormones such as estrogen and testosterone, these chemicals can interact with the body's endocrine system and exert toxic effects that may lead to reproductive and developmental abnormalities or cancer. In October 2000, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the NIEHS convened an independent panel of experts from aca...

Ethics in science: ecotoxicology

Predictive ecotoxicology emphasizes the probable environmental outcome of exposure to toxics, rather than the mere appraisal of existing damage, and in so doing raises some complex but interesting ethical issues. Awareness of endocrine-disrupting chemicals is blurring the line between humankind and other life forms in toxicity testing by providing evidence that both humans and wildlife suffer a...

Welcome to the revolution: integrative biology and assessing the impact of endocrine disruptors on environmental and public health.

Concern continues to grow over the negative impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on environmental and public health. The number of identified endocrine disrupting chemicals is increasing, but biological endpoints, experimental design, and approaches for examining and assessing the impact of these chemicals are still debated. Although some workers consider endocrine disruption an "emerging s...