Many of the chemicals are used in plastics like toys and food packaging, as well in personal care products and household ...

The mission of the NIEHS is to "reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease". NIEHS focuses ...

The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that it will fund longer-term health studies of the residents of East ...

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has announced a new research effort to study the long-term ...

The NIH has the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, but it is focused mostly on chemical toxins and pollutants. Even with a midrange budget (by NIH standards) ...

"Most toxic exposures do not occur singly," said Rick Woychik, deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Sponsor Message. Until recently, ...

Mission: The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, ...

With that in mind, on June 9-10, 2020, the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and convene a public workshop to explore emerging research on the relationship (harmful and ...