Health & Environment Newsletter

• August 2011 — Are EDCs harmless because they are "swamped" by the body's own hormones?
• July 2011 — Assessing Risk Posed by Chemicals in Mixtures
• June 2011 — Selection Bias in Risk Assessment: a Model
• May 2011 — Could "Relevance" be a Source of Bias in Risk Assessment?
• April 2011 — Does scientific practice meet the needs of regulators?
• March 2011 — The Obesogen Hypothesis
• February 2011 — Chemicals and type-2 diabetes: a short history
• January 2011 — A better way of assessing health risks from chemicals
• December 2010 — The significance of different standards of evidence in determining the safety of pharmaceuticals against the safety of chemicals
• November 2010 — Science and the safety of BPA part 1: Of mice and men
• October 2010 — The role of DEHP in inflammation and compromised immune responses in neonates
• September 2010 — Thyroid disruption special issue: how chemicals can harm health by interfering with thyroid function
• August 2010 — Fire safety chemicals: health concerns explained
• July 2010 — What do endocrine disruptors mean for theories about the origins of breast cancer?
• June 2010 — Is recycled PET safe? Plus Enviromics: adapting genomics to environmental causes of disease
• May 2010 — Green Chemistry: A positive story in environmental chemicals issues
• April 2010 — Epidemiology: how we learn about the effects of the environment on health
• March 2010 — The limitations of traditional toxicology when it comes to low doses of chemicals
• February 2010 — How to handle complex evidence about how the environment affects health
• January 2010 — Epigenetics: how the environment affect health by switching genes on and off
• December 2009 — Spot the difference: can the body distinguish between thyroid hormones and chemical imitators?
• November 2009 — Toxicant exposure and mental health: opportunities for treatment?
• October 2009 — A question of when: can timing of conception affect child health?
• September 2009 — Fear of a fat planet: closing the gaps in understanding obesity
• August 2009 — Rising cancer rates: attention on the environment in the struggle to explain increase in incidence
• July 2009 — Risky assessments: how chemical safety testing fails to anticipate harmful effects on health and the environment
• June 2009 — Night time work environment contributes to increased cancer risk for workers
• May 2009 — Are infection control measures contributing to antibiotic resistance?
• April 2009 — Sending the wrong signals: the danger to long-term health posed by endocrine disruptor exposure during developmental windows