Environmental Factor – May 2025: Pediatrician shares keys to reducing wildfire smoke exposure
As a young doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Mary Crocker, M.D., faced a clinical challenge from an unanticipated source: wildfire...
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Higher-weight social identity as a risk and protective factor in the negative health consequences of weight stigma: a systematic review
This review explored the role of higher-weight social identity as both a risk and protective factor in the effects of...
Environmental Factor – April 2025: NIEHS celebrates two trailblazers in environmental health research
NIEHS celebrated Gwen Collman, Ph.D., and Janet Hall, M.D., and their decades of dedicated public service during a March 24...
Obesity Consensus: A Lifestyle Choice, Risk Factor, or Full-fledged Disease?
The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking...
Environmental Factor – December 2024: Diet, lifestyle, and PFAS: Abby Fleisch tackles ‘forever chemicals’
Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent...
Environmental Factor – October 2024: “All of Us” program advances diversity, environmental health research
The All of Us Research Program, an ambitious effort by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is set to advance...
Environmental Factor – October 2024: First NIH-wide exposome research coordinating center launched
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded a new coordinating center to transform how environmental drivers of health and...
Lack of a healthy lifestyle a key factor for rising heart attacks among youngsters, say doctors
Doctors taking part in an awareness camp on World Heart Day, at the Heart and Brain Institute of Andhra Hospitals...
Environmental Factor – September 2024: RIVER grantee examines chromium exposure consequences across species
Chronic exposure to a form of the metal chromium can both damage a person’s DNA and prevent the repair of...
