Environmental Factors and Puberty Timing: Expert Panel Research Needs

Environmental factors and puberty timing: expert panel research needs.

Serono Symposia International convened an expert panel to review the impact of environmental influences on the regulation of pubertal onset and progression while identifying critical data gaps and future research priorities. An expert panel reviewed the literature on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, body size, and puberty. The panel concluded that available experimental animal and human data sup...

Role of environmental factors in the timing of puberty.

Puberty-timing measures have historically been used as indicators of adequate nutrition and growth. More recently, these measures have been examined in relation to exposure to estrogenic or antiandrogenic agents, as well as other environmental factors. The scientific community has debated whether puberty timing is occurring earlier today than in the mid-1900s in the United States and, if so, wh...

Conclusions, research needs, and recommendations of the expert panel: technical workshop on human milk surveillance and research for environmental chemicals in the United States.

Pancreatic cancer treatment and research: an international expert panel discussion.

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer has proven extremely challenging to treat. A collaborative effort is needed to advance research and improve treatment. An expert conference was conducted to elicit perspectives regarding the current treatment and future research of pancreatic cancer. METHODS The conference comprised an international panel of experts representing five European countries and the Uni...

Panel discussion: exposure, remediation, and related research needs.

The panel opened with a request to J. LaVelle (U.S. EPA) to enlarge upon his presentation of a bimodlal disposition for the plasma reduction of hexavalent chromium (and subsequent urine concentration) in an occupational group exposed to chromium. He replie(d that he did not know the size of the population that was exposed, but that the group consisted of workers at a dichromate plant, and the s...