The role of nutrition in mitigating environmental insults: policy and ethical issues.
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'Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; 4Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
دوره 103 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995