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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 7, 2000
#00-01
NIEHS CONTACT:
Bill Grigg
(301) 402-3378

07 Apr 2000: Links and Ideas for Earth Day, April 22, 2000

Story ideas:
See - Journal Publishes Experts' Call for Health Protection from Global Warming (http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2000/108p367-376patz/abstract.html).


New Publications:
See: Your Environment Is Your Health: How to Protect Yourself and Your Family from Environmental Hazards (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/scied/documents/FamilyGuide-sm.pdf)  Download Adobe Reader (347KB). For a rhyming teen version - see "Read the Label, Mabel," (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/mabel.htm).


News Releases:

See - Cloned Genes May Screen Environmental, Industrial Chemicals for Safety (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/news-archive/2000/toxchip.cfm).

See - Mice With Our Genes Will Show How We React to Environmental Challenges (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/news-archive/2000/dnarep.cfm).


Environmental health and science on the Web:

For authentic information on environmental health issues, your readers can reach the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/) (a part of the National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov) Exit NIEHS Website) and the National Toxicology Program (http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/).

The NIEHS also has a Kids' Page (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/home.htm).


News features from the NIEHS' journal Environmental Health Perspectives (http://www.ehponline.org/).

Open House:
Tour of laboratories, with employees giving out dogwood seedlings - since plants help clean the air and provide shade from solar radiation - at 1 p.m., April 20, in Research Triangle Park, N.C. (For details, call Tom Hawkins, (919) 541-1402), or visit the NIEHS Environmental Awareness Advisory Committee (EAAC) website (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/eaac/home.htm)). Maps to the main campus (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/visiting/index.cfm) are available on the web.
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