Prenatal Exposure Articles & Analysis
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Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health are the first to demonstrate an association between childhood asthma and prenatal exposure to two phthalates used in a diverse array of household products. ...
Study in Mice Points to a Synergistic Relationship Between Lead Exposure and Schizophrenia Gene Mice engineered with a human gene for schizophrenia and exposed to lead during early life exhibited behaviors and structural changes in their brains consistent with schizophrenia. ...
Jeanne Conry for her national leadership to promote better health for babies and women by preventing harmful chemical exposures during pregnancy,” Blumenfeld said. “She has made reproductive environmental health a key new emphasis for the obstetrics ...
The disturbances in brain structure are consistent with the IQ deficits previously reported in the children with high exposure levels of chlorpyrifos, or CPF, suggesting a link between prenatal exposure to CPF and deficits in IQ and working memory at age 7. ...
It is the first study to document how PFCs, which can be transferred to children prenatally (via the mother) and postnatally from exposure in the environment, can adversely affect vaccine response. ...