Breast cancer is a complex disease caused by multiple environmental and lifestyle factors interacting with genetic susceptibility across the life span. Therefore, environmental factors are of intense interest to both researchers and community members, including women with breast…
A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth.
"A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility describes the secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats, and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justi…
A cautionary investigation into the pervasiveness of toxic chemicals in the body shares the story of the author's survival of a contaminant-induced tumor while counseling readers on how to avoid chemical exposure through everyday consumer products.
A cautionary investigation into the pervasiveness of toxic chemicals in the body shares the story of the author's survival of a contaminant-induced tumor while counseling readers on how to avoid chemical exposure through everyday consumer products.
Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance …
Health impact assessment of shale gas extraction: workshop summary
by Institute of Medicine (États-Unis)., Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Coussens, Christine, Martinez, Rose Marie, Health Impact Assessment of New Energy Sources: Shale Gas Extraction (Workshop), Washington, D.C.)
"Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have b…
Health impact assessment of shale gas extraction: workshop summary
by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Coussens, Christine, Martínez, Rose Marien, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Washington, D.C.))
Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have be…
Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have be…
Health impact assessment of shale gas extraction: workshop summary
by Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Coussens, Christine, Martinez, Rose Marie, Health Impact Assessment of New Energy Sources: Shale Gas Extraction (Workshop), Washington, D.C.)
Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have be…
"This book describes methodology and applications for endocrine disrupter toxicity testing, an issue of considerable urgency, because of international regulatory authorities currently considering such testing schemes. The coverage examines major animal groups for sensitivity to …