Women's Environmental Health

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Neuropathy, womens' health, and socioeconomic aspects of diabetes.

NEUROPATHY At a symposium on neuropathy sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern at the American Diabetes Association meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Soroku Yagihashi (Hirosaki, Japan) discussed aspects of the pathogenesis of distal symmetric polyneuropathy. In a recent survey in Tohoku, Japan, of 32,955 individuals with diabetes, history or symptoms of neuropathy made it the most commo...

Environmental Health Perspectives and Children's Environmental Health

VOLUME 110 | NUMBER 10 | October 2002 • Environmental Health Perspectives Children’s health issues have skyrocketed into the public consciousness in the past several years, and Environmental Heath Perspectives has played a major role in publishing articles that address these concerns. In 1995, EHP published what was probably, at that time, the most comprehensive treatise on children’s environme...