NIEHS investigates Arctic health issues.

NIEHS investigates Arctic health issues.

Pollution Issues, both issued in 1997, which detailed the unique environmental and health problems facing the Arctic's ecology and populations [see EHP 106:A64-A69 (1998)]. This past May, health and environmental officials, research scientists, medical providers, leaders of indigenous communities, and concerned Arctic citizens met in Anchorage, Alaska, to explore these issues at the Internation...

NIEHS investigates links between children, the environment, and neurotoxicity.

Autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other neurodevelopmental, learning, and behavioral disorders may by some estimates affect as many as 1 in 6 U.S. children—or some 12 million children—according to a U.S. Census Bureau report published in the journal Pediatrics in 1993. The consequences of these disorders can be tragic, their familial, societal, and economic costs imme...

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By histological and ultrastructural criteria, most of the cells forming the tumour masses in basal cell carcinoma (BCC) resemble the normal epidermal basal cells from which they are thought to arise (reviewed by Pollack, 1982). This common locally invasive skin tumour is further characterised by extensive remodelling of the surrounding connective tissue (Getzrow, 1966; Pinkus, 1979; Delpech et ...

Women's health research at NIEHS.

The relationship between hepatic arterial albumin microsphere distribution and hepatic arterial blood flow and the effects of regional angiotensin II were studied in a rat liver metastases model. Hooded-Lister rats were inoculated subcapsularly with 2 x 106 HSN sarcoma cells. At 20 days, hepatic arterial blood flow was measured using the reference microsphere technique. Animals then randomly re...

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