National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
2001 News Releases
- December 11, 2001:
- Sharon - and Beginning Readers - Search for the Environment
- November 29, 2001:
- Food Allergy Scientists to Assess Potential for Sensitivities to Genetically Modified Foods
- November 18, 2001:
- What Protects Us from Radiation? Some Answers Are Found in More than 100 Yeast Genes
- November 5, 2001:
- NIEHS and Five Research Organizations Join to Use Genomics to Study Toxicological and Environmental Health Problems
- October 25, 2001:
- New Children's Environmental Health Centers to Study Causes of Autism and Other Disorders
- October 3, 2001:
- Drop of 30 Percent in Use of Animals in Some Tests Could Be Quickly Achieved through Use of Cells, U.S. Says
- August 6, 2001:
- Study Shows Simple Steps Can Reduce Dust Mite Allergens in Bedrooms
- July 26, 2001:
- Council and NIEHS Agree to $4 Million Research Effort to Improve Testing Chemicals for Potential Human Developmental and Reproductive Effects
- July 24, 2001:
- NTP Plans to Look at Common Viruses, Radiation, Cooking By-Products for New Carcinogen Report
- July 12, 2001:
- DDT Use in U.S. Linked to Premature Births in the 1960s
- July 10, 2001:
- U.S., Vietnamese Scientists to Jointly Look at Agent Orange Effects
- July 9, 2001:
- UCLA's Lutz Birnbaumer, Who Has Helped Demonstrate How Cells 'Talk,' Will Be NIEHS' New Scientific Director
- May 31, 2001:
- Increased Uterine Cancer Seen in Mice Injected with Genistein, a Soy Estrogen, As Newborns
- May 24, 2001:
- Environmental Health Sciences Center Funded at UNC Chapel Hill
- May 22, 2001:
- National Survey Examines Factors Related to High Levels of Dust Mite and Cockroach Allergen in Beds
- May 15, 2001:
- DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast Cancer, an Analysis of Five Northeast Studies Concludes
- May 14, 2001:
- More Study Recommended on Long-Term Reproductive Effects of Traces of Both Natural and Man-Made Hormone-Like Chemicals
- May 9, 2001:
- Drug Treatment of Lead-Exposed Children Does Not Improve Psychological Test Scores
- May 3, 2001:
- Environmental Health Institute Selects Centers in Ohio, Texas, New York and Washington to Breed Mice with Gene Variants for Disease Studies
- April 30, 2001:
- Experts on Health Disparities Discuss Issues with New NIH Minority Center Director
- April 18, 2001:
- 'Tuskegee' Revisited: Director of Nation's First African American Bioethics Center to Speak To Medical and Dental Students on Ethical Controversies in Medical Research
- March 30, 2001:
- Spend Your Earth Day Lunch-Time with Environmental Researchers, See Their Facilities and Get a Dogwood Seedling to Help Clean the Air
- March 22, 2001:
- Federal Government Makes Final Call for Data, Public Comment before Writing New Report on Cancer-Causing Substances
- February 26, 2001:
- Environmental Health Burdens of Poor Asian, Native American, African American and Hispanic Communities Featured at Special Session of Society of Toxicology
- February 26, 2001:
- NIEHS Initiates Clinical Center Research Group to Study and Treat Autoimmune Muscle Disorders
- February 13, 2001:
- Offspring of Men with Birth Defects Twice As Likely to Have Defects, Too
- February 9, 2001:
- Special Session Planned at Society of Toxicology Meeting on the Role of the Environment in Parkinson's Disease
- January 25, 2001:
- NTP Completes 500TH Two-Year Rodent Study and Report; Series is the Gold Standard of Animal Toxicology
- January 19, 2001:
- TCDD -- Dioxin -- Is Listed As "Known Human Carcinogen" in Federal Government's Ninth Report on Carcinogens
- January 4, 2001:
- Trans-NIH Collaboration with NIOSH Initiates Studies of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
- January 2, 2001:
- Environmental Health Institute Scientists Begin to Unravel Cause of Blocked Memory in Alzheimer's
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