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News Releases from NIEHS

• December 18, 2019:
• Pregnancy Hypertension Risk Increased by Traffic-related Air Pollution

  Findings give new insights into the connection between poor air quality, children’s health, and mother’s health.

• December 16, 2019:
• EHP Names New Editor-in-chief

  Joel Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

• December 4, 2019:
• Permanent Hair Dye and Straighteners May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

  Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who don’t use these products.

News Releases from NIEHS-funded Researchers

• February 26, 2020:
• Women Firefighters Face High Exposure to Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’

  San Francisco’s women firefighters are exposed to higher levels of certain toxic PFAS chemicals than women working in downtown San Francisco offices, shows a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, and Silent Spring Institute.

• February 20, 2020:
• Think All BPA-free Products Are Safe? Not so Fast, Scientists Warn

  MU scientists find BPA alternative, bisphenol S, could negatively affect both a mother’s placenta and potentially a developing baby’s brain.

• February 6, 2020:
• Cancer-causing Culprits Could Be Caught by Their DNA Fingerprints

  Causes of cancer are being catalogued through an international study revealing the genetic fingerprints of DNA-damaging processes that drive cancer development. Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with collaborators around the world, have created the most detailed list yet of these genetic fingerprints, providing clues to how each cancer develops.

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