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Proceedings of the 2007 Children's Environmental Health Workshop: Discover, Treat, Prevent, Prepare
(October 10 - 13, 2007)This workshop brings together the expertise and experience of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) of North America and the Children’s Environmental Health Centers to explore the latest research findings and their practical application in community settings. This workshop is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Office of Research and Development and Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education), the Department of Health and Human Services (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics in recognition of 10 years of federal effort to protect children’s environmental health as called for in Executive Order 13045, Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks. This anniversary provides the children’s environmental health community with an opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made and to formulate our vision for the future of children’s environmental health. [Read More]
EPA and NIEHS Award $7.5M Grant to UC Davis for Renewed Autism Research
(Wednesday, August 8, 2007)
- The Sacramento Bee (August 8, 2007)
Research seeks autism answers: UCD will look for causes by tracking volunteers before and after birth
- Daily Democrat (August 8, 2007)
Autism grant being awarded to UC Davis - Additional News Coverage
To continue federal progress on research on autism, EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced renewed funding for The University of California/Davis’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCEH) on August 8, 2007. This Center will investigate how genes and exposure to environmental chemicals during fetal development may play a role in the development of autism. [Read More]
News Coverage
- The Sacramento Bee (August 8, 2007)
Duke University to Study Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes
(Tuesday, May 15, 2007)
Duke University has been awarded a new Children’s Center grant (and the first fully funded by EPA) to study why the number of babies born prematurely or with low birth weight are higher in the South than in other parts of the U.S. The new Center is named the Southern Center on Environmentally Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (SCEDDBO). [Read More]
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UC Davis Children's Center Collaborates on Research Demonstrating that Noncoplanar PCBs Cause Brain Development Abnormalities in Rodents
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Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco, working with scientists at the University of California at Davis Children's Center, have shown that exposure to noncoplanar PCBs can cause deficits in the developing brain which lowers the capacity to learn in response to sound. The levels used were comparable to those seen in children exposed to high levels of PCBs in the environment. [Read More]
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UMDNJ Children's Center Develops New Tests to Detect Autism, Patents Novel Lipid Treatment Options (The Star-Ledger, Sunday, February 18, 2007)
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A team of scientists at the UMDNJ
Children’s Center has found possible ways to detect biological
risk factors for autism through urine and blood tests, a discovery that
could lead to groundbreaking medical treatments for the neurological
disorder. [Read More]
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University of Cincinnati Children’s Center Finds Exposure to Lead and Prenatal Tobacco Smoke Linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). (Thursday, October 5, 2006)
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Researchers from the University of Cincinnati Children’s Center
have found an association between children’s blood lead levels,
prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke (maternal smoking during pregnancy),
and a diagnosis of ADHD. [Read
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USC/UCLA Children's Center Finds that Children Living Near Busy Roads More Likely to Develop Asthma Symptoms (New York Times, Tuesday, May 9, 2006)
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Children living near busy roads are likely to be at increased
risk for developing asthma symptoms, according to results from
the USC/UCLA Children's Center. [Read
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Dr. Philip Landrigan of Mt. Sinai Children's Center Named Children's Environmental Health Champion. (Thursday, April 20, 2006)
The 2006 Children's Environmental Health Champion award has been presented by EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection to Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., who is a co-Principal Investigator of the Mt. Sinai Children's Center in New York City.
Dr. Landrigan is a pediatrician and the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He holds a Professorship in Pediatrics at Mount Sinai and directs the Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Health and the Environment and the Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. [Read More]
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UC Davis Children's Center Finds Signaling Disruptions in Mouse Cells from Mercury-Containing Vaccine Preservative (Thursday, April 20, 2006)
Researchers at the University of California at Davis Children's Center have found that low levels of thimerosal -- a vaccine preservative containing ethylmercury -- disrupt the signaling system between mouse dendritic (immune system) cells when observed in cell culture dishes. [Read More]
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UC Berkeley and University of Washington Children's Centers Find Susceptibility to Pesticides is Highly Variable Among Latina Women and Children (March 2, 2006)
Some children may be 26 to 50 times more susceptible to exposure to certain organophosphate (OP) pesticides than other newborns, and 65 to 130 times more sensitive than some adults, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington Children's Centers. The study, published in the journal Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, reveals far greater variability in susceptibility to pesticides than previously predicted. [Read More]
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University of Washington Researcher Profiled in Seattle Times Magazine
Steve Ringman/The Seattle TimesGloria Coronado, an epidemiologist and researcher with the University of Washington Children's Center, is the subject of a recent profile in the Seattle Times Sunday magazine, Pacific Northwest. The article describes Coronado's career development and her work to document and understand the effects of pesticides on farmworkers and their families. She is also developing outreach programs to help prevent pesticide-related illness among this population.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw01082006/coverstory.html
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Columbia Children’s Environmental Health Research Center Featured in Discover Magazine (March 2, 2006)
The March 2006 issue of Discover magazine features research from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, based at the Columbia University School of Public Health in New York City. The article entitled “Toxic Inheritance: Is There Cancer in this Photo?” describes the “Mothers and Newborns Study” that enrolled over 700 women from North Manhattan and the South Bronx. [Read More]
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NIEHS/EPA Children's Centers featured on the cover of Environmental Health Perspectives (October 2005 )
The Children's Environmental Health Research Centers program was featured in the October, 2005 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives,and the issue included a mini-monograph of collaborative "Lessons Learned" papers from the Children's Centers prepared for the National Children's Study, along with profiles of four of the Centers. The NCS plans to follow 100,000 children from birth to adulthood and measure a large number of environmental factors that could influence health. [Read More]
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Four Children's Centers Profiled in Environmental Health Perspectives: Children's Centers Study Kids and Chemicals (October 2005)
Many studies in recent years have documented that whether they're used to spray in the kitchen or spray in the field, pesticides have a way of getting into almost all human environments. Pesticide exposure isn't a great idea for adults, but it poses a particular concern in regards to children. [Read More]
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Columbia Children's Center wins Award from EPA Office of Children's Health Protection for Integrated Pest Management and Healthy Home projects (April 14, 2005)
The Columbia Children's Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) has been honored with a Excellence Award from the EPA Office of Children's Health Protection for its IPM (Integrated Pest Management) interventions and its "Healthy Home, Healthy Child" community education and outreach project. [Read More]
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Mothers' Exposure to Air Pollutants Linked to Chromosome Damage in Babies(February 15, 2005)
A new study of 60 newborns in New York City conducted by the Children's Environmental Health Research Center at Columbia University reveals that exposure of expectant mothers to combustion-related urban air pollution may alter the structure of babies' chromosomes while in the womb. While previous experiments have linked such genetic alterations to an increased risk of leukemia and other cancers, much larger studies would be required to determine the precise increase in risk as these children reach adulthood. Press Release
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke Linked to Reading, Math, Logic and Reasoning Declines in Children (January 5, 2005)
A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain cognitive skills, including reading, math, and logic and reasoning, in children and adolescents. Press Release
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- The EPA Children's Environmental Health Awards
The EPA Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education each year grants a series of Children's Environmental Health Excellence Awards. The awards are designed to recognize ongoing and sustainable dedication to, and notable leadership in, protecting children from environmental health risks.
- View a list of 2005 award winners
- View a list of 2006 award winners
- Application for 2007 awards (closes June 15, 2007)
EPA’s Child and Aging Health Protection Division, Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education (OCHPEE) has released the report "Children's Environmental Health: 2006 - Environment, Health, and a Focus on Children (PDF)."(20 pp, 2.60MB, About PDF) This annual publication highlights a variety of efforts across the U.S. EPA to improve the environments where children live, learn and play and recent efforts to protect children's health.
You can find this and other publications of the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education at http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/publications2.htm.
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