1997 News Releases

News Releases from NIEHS

• December 15, 1997:
• NIEHS Establishes an Environmental Health Information Service on Internet; Includes Journal, Supplements, Toxicology Data
• December 5, 1997:
• Cosmetics and Shampoo Ingredients and Wood Preservative Toxicity Study Reports to Be Reviewed by NTP Committee
• December 3, 1997:
• Institute Asks Johnston County Parents to Help in Study of What May Cause Kids to Be Hyperactive
• November 24, 1997:
• Reanalysis of International Data Finds Sharp Decline in Sperm Density
• November 24, 1997:
• CDC and NIH Join in Testing Exposure of Americans to Environmental Estrogens and Other Chemicals
• November 24, 1997:
• News Releases
• November 19, 1997:
• Genetic Variation for Enzyme in Lung May Point to Cancer Susceptibility Gene, Mechanisms That May Cause Cancer
• November 18, 1997:
• Why are the Frogs Malformed? -- Parasites, Pesticides and/or UV? Is There a Broader Problem for Human Health?
• November 10, 1997:
• 7-Year-Olds' Neurological Development Shows Delays from Methylmercury in Mothers' Diets during Pregnancy
• November 1, 1997:
• NIH Scientists Discover How Restricted Diets Slow Cancer; Advance Suggests a Drug Might Be Developed to Do the Same
• October 31, 1997:
• Panel Recommends That Saccharin Remain on U.S. List of Carcinogens
• October 30, 1997:
• NTP Advisory Group Makes Recommendations for 9th Report on Carcinogens
• October 27, 1997:
• NIEHS Booklet Spells Out Environmental Diseases from A to Z
• October 27, 1997:
• New Scientific Review of Saccharin to Be Discussed As Board Reviews Proposed Listings for 9th Report on Carcinogens
• October 27, 1997:
• News Releases
• October 10, 1997:
• NIH Symposium to Outline and Discuss 'Environmental Genome' to Study Chemical Susceptibility
• September 30, 1997:
• New Findings on Deformed Frogs in Minnesota
• September 25, 1997:
• NIH Project to Characterize Pfiesteria Toxins and Explore Their Potential Danger to Humans
• September 15, 1997:
• NIH Seeks Nominations for "Environmental Genome" Project - A Study of Individual Susceptibility to Environmental Exposures
• September 10, 1997:
• Low Birthweight, Early Births Found Among Infants Near Hazardous Landfill
• September 3, 1997:
• HHS and EPA Move to Establish First-Ever Federal Research Centers to Protect Children's Health
• August 18, 1997:
• With Less Blood-Letting and Fewer 'Ouches' - Easier Way Found to Study Interactions of Genes, Environment
• July 31, 1997:
• Pfiesteria Research Grant
• July 31, 1997:
• NIEHS Shorcut Isolates and Clones BRCA2 Gene in Yeast; Success Leads to Establishment of Gene Isolation Unit
• July 31, 1997:
• News Releases
• July 30, 1997:
• NIEHS, CDC Fund Study of Fungus Fatal to Cleveland Infants
• July 29, 1997:
• NIEHS Names Perry Blackshear, Duke Physician, to Direct New Clinical Research Program
• July 18, 1997:
• New Federal Saccharin Review Planned; Could Lead to Removal from List of Carcinogens
• July 17, 1997:
• White House' Gibbons to Participate: Conference on Estrogens in the Environment IV
• June 17, 1997:
• Planned Studies of Water Disinfection By-Products to Begin, but NIEHS, EPA Scientists Advise Public Health 'Balance'
• May 29, 1997:
• Public Invited to Nominate for Carcinogen Report
• April 29, 1997:
• Journal Explores Hormones, Environment and Breast Cancer
• March 26, 1997:
• Smoking and Passive Smoke Linked to Rare Condition Which Starves Newborns of Oxygen
• March 13, 1997:
• U.S. Agencies Agree on How to Bring Alternative Testing Methods Into Use to Supplement, Replace or Improve Current Tests
• March 5, 1997:
• NIEHS Researcher Breaks New Ground in the Fight against Breast Cancer
• February 27, 1997:
• Common Chemical Shows Estrogen-Like Action
• February 24, 1997:
• Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Data Revisited
• January 9, 1997:
• Why Your Gas Pump Has a Collar: NIEHS Journal Supplement Details Benzene Toxicity
• January 8, 1997:
• NIEHS Finds Trio of Tests Can Quickly Screen for Estrogen-Like Activity in Environmental Chemicals
• January 8, 1997:
• Experimental Support for Link to 'Gator Abnormalities: Two Pesticides in Spill Shown to Block Natural Hormones
• January 8, 1997:
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