Workers and citizens are turning increasingly to the health care system for information about occupational and environmental reproductive hazards, yet most primary care providers and specialists know little about the effects of occupational/environmental toxicants on the reproductive system or how to evaluate and manage patients at potential risk. Although it is unrealistic to expect all clinic...

BACKGROUND Surrounded by landfills, and toxic and hazardous facilities, Altgeld Gardens is located in a "toxic doughnut". With high rates of environmentally-related conditions, residents have called for a community-based environmental health assessment to improve overall health in their community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and beliefs of environmental health ris...

A workshop titled "Using Sentinel Species Data to Address the Potential Human Health Effects of Chemicals in the Environment," sponsored by the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the EPA, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was held to consider the use of sentinel and surrogate animal species data for eva...

The changing climate is creating additional challenges in maintaining a healthy school environment in the United States (U.S.) where over 50 million people, mostly children, spend approximately a third of their waking hours. Chronic low prioritization of funds and resources to support environmental health in schools and lack of clear regulatory oversight in the U.S. undergird the new risks from...

The mission of the Centre of Excellence MANHAZ is to provide leadership, expertise and integration of efforts related to risk assessment of activities involving hazardous substances in Poland The main targets to be achieved by the Centre are the following: • to create a common forum both for developers of the models for risk assessment, management of major accidents and decision support systems...

Sir Monoclonal antibodies (MoABs) that recognise the carbohydrate structures of cell-surface glycoproteins and glycolipids of cancer cells have been regarded as useful tools for characterising cell types and for cancer diagnosis through assaying of antigenic glycoconjugates secreted into the bloodstream (Bast et al., 1983; Fukushi et al., 1985; Nozawa et al., 1989). Serum CA125 levels reflect t...

Although it is often acknowledged that social and environmental factors interact to produce racial and ethnic environmental health disparities, it is still unclear how this occurs. Despite continued controversy, the environmental justice movement has provided some insight by suggesting that disadvantaged communities face greater likelihood of exposure to ambient hazards. The exposure-disease pa...