1996 News Releases

December 11, 1996:
Vitamin D Receptor Gene Linked to Reduced Prostate Cancer Risk in Study at NIEHS And UNC
December 10, 1996:
Korach Publication 'Hot'
November 26, 1996:
Cell and Tumor Growth Research Pioneer to Deliver Falk Lecture
November 19, 1996:
Scientists Try to Match Rodent Results in Testing Chemicals
November 14, 1996:
Partnership Between DPS And NIEHS Announced - Dedication of Molecular Biology Lab at Hillside HS to Take Place November 21st, 1996
October 31, 1996:
Panel to Seek Foundation Cooperation -- and Money -- for Kids at Risk from Lead, Pollution and Pesticides
October 17, 1996:
NIEHS' Allen Wilcox Elected President of Largest Epidemiologic Society
September 13, 1996:
NIEHS Funds New Environmental Health Sciences Centers in Southern California and Texas
September 2, 1996:
NIH Scientists Find Mutant Repair Gene MSH3 Has Role in Uterine Cancer
August 19, 1996:
Environmental Health Sciences Mature - NIEHS Celebrates 30th Anniversary
June 19, 1996:
NIH Study: Among Women Who Want to Get Pregnant, Douching May Delay Conception
June 13, 1996:
NIH-Supported Studies Show Potential Danger to Fetus from Expectant Mothers' Own Early Exposure to Lead
May 30, 1996:
Mutations of Gene BRCA2 Responsible for Few Sporadic Cases of Breast Cancer, NIEHS And Duke Report
May 8, 1996:
Internationally Known Scientist Named NIEHS Deputy Director; His Work May Help Control AIDS, Environment-Related Diseases
April 29, 1996:
Duke-NIEHS Team Links BRCA2 to Pancreatic Cancer; Evidence Suggests Still a Third Breast Cancer Gene
April 25, 1996:
Not So Specialized After All: Genes Carry Out Different Repairs -- A Finding That Helps Clarify the Development of Cancer
April 16, 1996:
Younger Women's Ovarian Cancers More Likely to Be Inherited
February 22, 1996:
NIH Finds Shortcut To Gene Isolation
February 19, 1996:
Lack of Chemical-Detoxifying Gene Produces Disease Susceptibility in Fifty Million Americans -- One in Six
February 7, 1996:
Children of Fish Consumers Show No Developmental Damage