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News Releases from NIEHS

• February 17, 2023:
• Toxic Protein Linked to Muscular Dystrophy and Arhinia

  Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body called DUX4 may be the cause of two very different rare genetic disorders.

• November 7, 2022:
• NIH’s Climate and Health Initiative Tackles Global Health Effects Associated With a Changing Climate

  The authors, a coalition of leaders at NIH, outline how the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiativeis uniquely poised to lead and engage with communities and agencies globally to address the health effects associated with climate change.

• November 2, 2022:
• New 3D Model Shows How Cadmium Exposure May Affect Heart Development

  Researchers have developed a three-dimensional model that shows how exposure to cadmium might lead to congenital heart disease. Affecting nearly 40,000 newborns a year, congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect in the United States.

News Releases from NIEHS-funded Researchers

• March 21, 2023:
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Helps Lead Groundbreaking Study on the Human and Ocean Health Impacts of Ocean Plastics

  For the first time, leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean science, and social science have collaborated to quantify plastic's considerable risks to all life on Earth.

• March 8, 2023:
• New Study: Abatacept Therapy Offers Promising Results Treating Juvenile Dermatomyositis

  Juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare but often severe and chronic systemic autoimmune disease, includes a large number of patients who are treatment resistant, requiring long term immunosuppressive therapy.

• February 21, 2023:
• Keck School of Medicine Study Finds “Forever Chemicals” Disrupt Key Biological Processes

  Exposure to a mixture of chemicals called PFAS leads to alterations in biological processes associated with a broad range of diseases.

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