Podcasts by EHP: The Researchers Perspective
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The Art of the Algorithm: Machine Learning in Environmental Health Research, with Nicole Kleinstreuer from 2020-02-13T14:00
We live in a time when investigators have overwhelming amounts of health-related data at their fingertips. In this podcast, Nicole Kleinstreuer explains how environmental health scientists are u...
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The Global Burden of Mercury Exposure, with Niladri Basu from 2019-11-12T18:30:07
Methylmercury, the most toxic form of mercury, is found in seafood around the world, and it can cause severe health effects in people who are exposed to it. Governments are working to reduce the...
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Green and Serene? Exploring the Relationship between Vegetation and Mental Health, with Rachel Banay from 2019-10-01T15:59:06
Can living in green surroundings make you healthier and happier? It’s a tantalizing idea. In this podcast, guest Rachel Banay discusses her recent E...
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Key Characteristics: A New Approach to Identifying Potential Toxicants, with Martyn Smith from 2019-07-22T18:22:32
It would be nearly impossible using current methods to test all the chemicals in use for toxic effects. So how do we prioritize which ones to study? In this podcast, Martyn Smith describes how h...
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Wind Turbines and Health: The Noise Connection, with Aslak Harbo Poulsen from 2019-05-20T15:59:58
For some people, the whoosh of wind turbines is the sound of clean energy. For others, it is the sound of an environmental exposure that could possibly cause adverse health effects. Wind turbine...
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A Regrettable Substitute: The Story of GenX, with Jane Hoppin from 2019-03-14T16:28:31
DuPont introduced GenX almost 10 years ago as a chemical substitute for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Although GenX was intended to be less env...
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Arsenic and Obesity: A Compound Risk Factor for Diabetes? with Mirek Stýblo from 2019-01-28T17:00
Although obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, certain environmental agents, such as arsenic, also appear to contribute to the disease. There is evidence that an individual’s risk of arse...
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Phthalates and Childhood Asthma, with Randi Bertelsen from 2013-03-01T17:00
Several studies have reported links between asthma in children and the presence of phthalates in dust from the children’s homes. But the presence of a chemical is not the same thing as exposure,...
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An Unlikely Duo: Air Pollution’s Link to Low Birth Weight, with Tracey Woodruff from 2013-02-01T05:00
When you think about the health effects of air pollution, what comes to mind? Lung disease? Cancer? One health effect you might not immediately think of is low birth weight, a risk factor for a ...
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The Secret Life of Fat, with Michele La Merrill from 2013-01-02T17:00
Your bulges are busier than you may think…Many people see adipose tissue—fat—as nothing more than lumpy extra baggage. But fat serves several important functions in the body. It helps us store e...
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Leaded Aviation Gasoline and Child Blood Lead Levels, with Marie Lynn Miranda from 2012-12-01T05:00
Despite dramatic decreases in atmospheric lead levels over the past few decades, lead exposure remains a problem, especially for children. In this podcast, Marie Lynn Miranda discusses one remai...
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Exploring Links between Arsenic and Diabetes, with Ana Navas-Acien from 2012-11-01T04:00
Arsenic is a problem in communities around the world, from Bangladesh to New Hampshire. It’s one of the environmental chemicals the National Toxicology Program explored at a recent workshop as p...
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Post-Katrina Asthma in the Children of New Orleans, with Patricia Chulada from 2012-10-01T04:00
New Orleans is already known as a hot, moist place—ideal growing conditions for mold. Now factor in Hurricane Katrina, which hit the city in August of 2005, leaving behind even more indoor mold ...
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Epigenomics and Maternal Smoking, with Bonnie Joubert and Stephanie London from 2012-09-01T16:00
Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to have problems like low birth weight, asthma, and possibly obesity, cancer, and high blood pressure. For clues into the mechanism...
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Climate Change and Migration, with Celia McMichael and Jon Barnett from 2012-08-01T16:00
Over the past million years humans have migrated in response to food shortages, droughts, ice ages, and many other reasons, but in the coming decades, migrations related to climate change are ex...
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What Do We Know about Obesogens? with Bruce Blumberg from 2012-07-02T04:00
Human beings, as a species, are putting on weight. Obesity rates are rising in rich and poor countries alike for a variety of reasons, from changing dietary habits and activity levels to exposur...
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Low-dose Effects of Endocrine Disruptors, with Laura Vandenberg from 2012-06-01T16:00
Reproduction, growth, behavior, and sleep patterns are just a few of the bodily functions controlled by hormones. Researchers around the world are examining what happens if chemical substances w...
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Bite of Arsenic, with Kathryn Cottingham from 2012-05-01T16:00
Many organic foods and high-energy products are sweetened with brown rice syrup as an alternative to high-fructose corn syrup. Consumers who eat these products may be avoiding high-fructose corn...
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Global Mortality from Outdoor Smoke, with Fay Johnston and Sarah Henderson from 2012-04-01T16:00
Burning forests, grasslands, and fields have been part of the landscape probably for as long as humans have been on the planet. But it's only in recent years that we've begun to explore the heal...
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Phthalates in Medicinal Products, with Katherine Kelley from 2012-03-01T17:00
Americans are widely exposed to phthalates in soft plastic products from toys to medical equipment. A perhaps lesser-known potential source of exposure is the timed-release coatings on certain p...
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Managing Wastewater from Fracking, with Robert B. Jackson from 2012-02-01T17:00
Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is a controversial practice used in natural-gas drilling. Fracking makes it much more feasible to free the vast reserves of natural gas locked underground, but ...
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Mixed Metals Exposures in Children, with Robert O. Wright from 2012-01-01T17:00
In our daily lives we're rarely exposed to just one chemical at a time. Metals, for example, are ubiquitous in the environment, and most of us are exposed to different combinations of metals eac...
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Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Undernutrition, with Sari Kovats from 2011-12-01T17:00
With more than 1 billion people estimated to not have enough to eat, food security is a pervasive problem. An estimated one-third of the global burden of disease afflicting children under the ag...
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Assessing the Science of Cell Phone Safety, with David Savitz from 2011-11-01T16:00
Cell phones have become an integral part of many people’s lives. But could our constant contact with these devices be affecting our health? Th...
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Early Influences on Mammary Gland Development, with Suzanne Fenton from 2011-10-01T16:00
Studies are showing a trend of girls developing breasts and going through puberty earlier than they did in years past. Now researchers are investigating the Listen
What Does Climate Change Have To Do with Human Health? with John Balbus from 2011-09-01T16:00
Climate change is not just a problem for rivers and reservoirs that are running dry, or forests and grasslands that are seeing an increased incidence of wildfire, or Arctic wildlife stressed by ...
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The Legacy of Waste Couture, with Luz Claudio from 2011-08-01T04:00
In the 2007 news feature "Waste Couture: Environmental Impact of the Clothing Industry," EHP explored the environmental and occupation...
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Chemical Contamination in Tohoku, with Lizzie Grossman and Winnie Bird from 2011-07-01T04:00
The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 devastated entire swaths of the Japanese coastline and killed thousands of people. Much of the attention following the disaster has focused on ...
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Air Pollution in China, with Junfeng (Jim) Zhang from 2011-06-01T16:00
Air pollution in China, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, reflects a combination of traditional and modern-day factors. Severe air pollution in Chinese cities is the result of rapid indus...
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Communicating about Chemical Body Burden, with Tracey Woodruff and Rachel Morello-Frosch from 2011-05-01T04:00
Biomonitoring studies reveal what we've been exposed to, but the significance of these exposures is not always clear—and when the participants in su...
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Asbestos Trends Worldwide, with Richard Lemen from 2011-04-01T16:00
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the National Toxicology Program, and the Environmental Protection Agency all declared asbestos a known human carcinogen decades ago. Yet U.S. imp...
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Benchmarks of Toxicology, with Peter Goering from 2011-03-01T17:00
In honor of its fiftieth anniversary the Society of Toxicology teamed up with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Toxicology Program, and Environmental Heal...
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A Better Understanding of BPA Metabolism, with Frederick vom Saal from 2011-02-04T05:00
Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in a wide variety of consumer products, and biomonitoring studies indicate widespread exposure to the compound. Much of the hesitation to regulate BPA up to now has ste...
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The San Antonio Statement, withÅke Bergman from 2011-01-01T17:00
Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants are widely used in upholstered furniture and foam products. These compounds have been found to accumulate in the bodies of humans, and although more i...
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ADHD and Environmental Risk Factors, with Susan Schantz from 2010-12-01T05:00:01
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is one of the most frequently diagnosed neurobehavioral problems in children and is thought to be largely hereditary. But only a small number o...
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Risks and Benefits of Pool Chlorination, with Manolis Kogevinas from 2010-11-01T16:00
Chlorine is one of the most common disinfectants used to kill microbes in water and make it safe for humans to swim in and drink. But when chlorine and other disinfectants combine with organic m...
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Neurobehavioral Effects of Artificial Food Dyes, with Bernard Weiss from 2010-10-01T16:00
In the past several decades there has been a sharp increase in the amount of artificial dyes and flavorings children encounter daily in foods, beverages, medicines, and toiletries such as toothp...
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Nine Years Later: Exposures after the World Trade Center Attacks, with Paul Lioy from 2010-09-11T16:00
The collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on 11 September 2001 created a massive cloud of dust that blanketed lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. That dust comprised a complex mixture ...
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Nine Years Later: Health Effects in World Trade Center Responders, with Philip Landrigan from 2010-09-01T16:00
As many as 70,000 volunteers and rescue workers responded to the 11 September 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) attacks, many toiling for months to clear mountains of debris containing a range of to...
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Dispersants in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon Spill, with Dana Wetzel from 2010-08-01T16:00
Although dispersants have been used to help clean up oil spills since the 1960s, it wasn't until the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that these chemicals made their way into the...
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Delayed Reaction: The Fetal Basis of Adult Disease, with Deborah Cory-Slechta from 2010-07-01T16:00
Exposure to certain chemicals or stressors in utero can cause immediate health effects for fetuses and babies including lowered birth weight, birth defects, and impaired neurodevelopment. New li...
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Fifty Thousand Strong: The Sister Study, with Dale Sandler from 2010-06-01T16:00:01
In the United States more than 40,000 women die of breast cancer each year, and almost 200,000 women develop the disease. Although survival rates have improved and risk factors have been identif...
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Human Exposure to PBDEs, with Heather Stapleton from 2010-05-01T04:00
Flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are added to products such as furniture, car seats, textiles, and electronics. These chemicals improve safety by giving consumers...
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Reflections of a Pioneer, with Theo Colborn from 2010-04-01T04:00
In the 1950s biologists began noticing unusual behavior and various reproductive health problems in wild animals. Environmental health analyst Theo Colborn was one of the first to start asking w...
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Toxicity Forecast, with Robert Kavlock from 2010-03-01T17:00
Every year about 2,000 new chemicals are submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for safety approval. Figuring out how a chemical might affect human health involves lab studi...
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Studying Autism and Mercury, with Irva Hertz-Picciotto from 2010-02-01T17:00
An estimated 1-1.5 million Americans live with autism, a neural disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication. Some research suggests environmental factors play a role ...
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DDT: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown, with Brenda Eskenazi from 2010-01-01T17:00
DDT is unique among the "dirty dozen" compounds banned under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants because specific exceptions are made for the indoor spraying of this pestic...
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Industrial Farming: Implications for Human Health, with Peter Thorne from 2009-11-19T17:00
Industrial-scale farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have become an increasing focal point for environmental health research because of their emissions and concerns the...
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Breastfeeding: An Ancient Paradigm in Today’s World, with Lynn R. Goldman from 2009-10-15T16:00
A number of recent studies have reported finding measurable levels of persistent organic pollutants in human milk, and many daily activities expose nursing women to toxic chemicals that can end ...
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Who's Hit Hardest by Heat Waves? with Colleen Reid from 2009-09-17T16:00
Heat waves kill more people in the United States each year than any other natural hazard, and many regions worldwide are experiencing more frequent and more severe heat waves. But not all people...
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Arsenic and Immune Response to Influenza: Implications for Human Health, with Josh Hamilton from 2009-08-13T16:00
The many adverse health effects caused by chronic arsenic exposure are a concern for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose drinking water contains elevated levels of this naturally ...
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Do PCBs Contribute to Childhood Leukemia? with Mary H. Ward from 2009-07-28T16:00
Although childhood leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, little is known about its causes. Incidence of acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common childhood leukemia, is highest in indu...
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Long-Term Effects of Bisphenol A Exposure, with Retha Newbold from 2009-06-16T16:00:01
Cities and states across the United States, as well as other nations abroad, are banning bisphenol A (BPA) due to concerns about adverse health effects of low doses of this widely used industria...
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Phthalate Research Coming of Age? with Shanna Swan from 2009-06-12T16:00:01
In 2005 Shanna Swan and colleagues published groundbreaking research linking mothers' phthalate levels with altered genital developme...
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Public Health for the 21st Century, with Kenneth Olden from 2009-06-07T16:00
The global population is undergoing sweeping changes that are shifting the balance toward an older and more urbanized population that experiences more chronic disease and a greater gap between r...
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Fossil Fuel Emissions and Children’s Health, with Frederica Perera from 2009-05-29T16:00
Children are generally more vulnerable to environmental insults because their bodies are still developing, but just as early exposures can cause lifelong adverse effects, so can early interventi...
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Emerging Science of Nanotoxicology, with Günter Oberdörster from 2009-05-08T04:00:01
In 2004 Günter Oberdörster and colleagues published a seminal review on the emerging discipline of nanotoxicology, which was later selected as Listen
A New Era at the NIEHS/NTP, with Linda Birnbaum from 2009-04-22T16:00
In January 2009 Linda Birnbaum took the reins as the new director of NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. In this podcast, Birnbaum shares h...
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Predicting Effects of Climate Change, with Kristie Ebi from 2009-04-03T16:00
How do you visualize something you've never seen? That's the question facing policy makers who are charged with preparing for the potential public health effects of a warming climate. In this po...
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