Perfluorinated Chemicals as Emerging Environmental Threats to Kidney Health

Perfluorinated Chemicals: an emerging concern

Aquatic toxicology of perfluorinated chemicals.

Animals as sentinels of human health hazards of environmental chemicals.

A workshop titled "Using Sentinel Species Data to Address the Potential Human Health Effects of Chemicals in the Environment," sponsored by the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the EPA, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was held to consider the use of sentinel and surrogate animal species data for eva...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability

The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. Today, however, despite extraordinary advances in development of countermeasures (diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines), the ease of world travel and increased global interdependence have added layers of complexity to containing...

Emerging threats to public health from regional trade agreements.

The decision by Australia’s High Court to uphold the constitutionality of the country’s ground-breaking tobacco plain packaging laws has been heralded as a victory for national sovereignty over vested interests. However, the ability of governments worldwide to introduce and im plement public health policies and laws is increasingly threatened by trade and investment treaties that privilege inve...