NIEHS Responds to Katrina

The NIEHS Responds to Hurricane Katrina

I am very proud of the role that the NIEHS has played in the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Extramural and intramural scientists have jointly developed and are implementing both short-term and long-term responses to this natural disaster. Many individuals have contributed to our response, but I especially want to acknowledge the leadership of Sam Wilson, Rich Freed, Bill Suk, Allen Dearry, M...

NIEHS responds to World Trade Center attacks.

The worst of the fires are out. But environmental health hazards still exist in and around the ruins of the World Trade Center following the attacks of 11 September 2001. Workers at Ground Zero toil in a dangerous environment. They and others exposed to dust and fumes in the wake of the building collapse and fires may suffer adverse health effects for years to come. The NIEHS is playing a role ...

EHPnet: CDC: Environmental Concerns After Hurricane Katrina NIEHS: Natural Disaster Response

This paper explores the decay of linkage disequilibrium (LD) on the autosomes and chromosome X. The extent of marker-marker LD is important for both linkage and association studies. The analysis of the Caucasian sample from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism study revealed the expected negative relationship between the magnitude of the marker-marker LD and distance (cM), with...

Rall Returns to NIEHS

NIEHS Initiatives

0^ Agricultural Chemicals Although agricultural chemicals improve crop yields, increase the quality of the American diet, and contribute to improvements in public health, there is growing public concern about their human health effects. Agricultural chemicals are usually mixtures of chemicals, some of which can damage the environment and accumulate in ecosystems. Depending on dose, some agricul...