2011 News Releases

News Releases from NIEHS

• December 19, 2011:
• NIH scientists find a potential new avenue for cancer therapies
• December 7, 2011:
• US Tox21 to begin screening 10,000 chemicals
• November 10, 2011:
• Wood stove intervention can reduce childhood pneumonia
• October 6, 2011:
• NIH launches research program to explore health effects from climate change
• September 30, 2011:
• Darryl C. Zeldin named National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences scientific director
• August 17, 2011:
• Media Advisory for Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
• July 13, 2011:
• NIH Investigators Discover New Mechanism That May Be Important for Learning and Memory
• July 7, 2011:
• NIH-funded research network to explore oil spill health effects
• June 10, 2011:
• New Substances Added to HHS Report on Carcinogens
• June 10, 2011:
• Media Advisory: New substances added to HHS Report on Carcinogens
• June 10, 2011:
• News Releases
• May 3, 2011:
• World Asthma Day: NIH research advances help people with asthma
• March 31, 2011:
• NIH investigators find link between DNA damage and immune response
• March 17, 2011:
• Submit your visionary ideas about environmental health research
• March 10, 2011:
• New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity
• March 2, 2011:
• Media Advisory: NIH joins SOT to celebrate 50 years of toxicology science
• February 28, 2011:
• NIH launches largest oil spill health study
• February 23, 2011:
• Media Advisory: Largest oil spill health study to launch along Gulf Coast
• February 11, 2011:
• NIH study finds two pesticides associated with Parkinson's disease
• January 7, 2011:
• Media Advisory: National Toxicology Program Workshop: Role of Environmental Chemicals in the Development of Diabetes and Obesity
• January 7, 2011:
• HHS Proposed Recommendation on Fluoride

News Releases from NIEHS-funded Researchers

• December 12, 2011:
• NDAR federation creates largest source of autism research data to date
• December 5, 2011:
• Dartmouth researchers evaluate rice as a source of fetal arsenic exposure
• October 13, 2011:
• Inefficient developing world stoves contribute to 2 million deaths a year
• October 9, 2011:
• Natural Processes Can Limit Spread of Arsenic in Water, Says Study
• August 15, 2011:
• Exercise May Help Prevent Brain Damage Caused by Alzheimer’s Disease
• June 13, 2011:
• People with Parkinson's Disease May Have Double The Risk for Melanoma, a Dangerous Skin Cancer
• May 24, 2011:
• Women Who Start Prenatal Vitamins Early are Less Likely to have Children with Autism
• February 18, 2011:
• NIEHS Grantees, NYU and WHOI, Discover Genetic Mutation Allowing Hudson River Fish to Adapt to PCBs
• January 20, 2011:
• Members of a Federal Advisory Group on Autism Mobilize in Response to a Mother's Plea