National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
1997 News Releases
- 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 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 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 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
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