The environment plays a major role in influencing diseases and health. The phenomenon of environmental exposure is complex and humans are not exposed to one or a handful factors but potentially hundreds factors throughout their lives. The exposome, the totality of exposures encountered from birth, is hypothesized to consist of multiple inter-dependencies, or correlations, between individual exp...

The role of environmental reservoirs in H. pylori transmission remains uncertain due to technical difficulties in detecting living organisms in sources outside the stomach. Residents of some Canadian Arctic communities worry that contamination of the natural environment is responsible for the high prevalence of H. pylori infection in the region. This analysis aims to estimate associations betwe...

Compiled are abstracts from developmental and reproductive epidemiologic and animal toxicity studies and other relevant investigations. This information was used in a screen to select appropriate chemicals for presentation to the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee as possible candidates for Committee consideration. The criterion for passing this screen is the exist...