Air pollution poses a major threat to global public health. Although there have been a few
investigations into the relationships between organic pollutants and adverse outcomes, the …

Background: Air pollution contributes significantly to global increases in mortality,
particularly within urban environments. Limited knowledge exists on the mechanisms …

Humans spend most of their time indoors and thus have long-term exposure to chemicals.
Dust is a sink for most indoor chemicals, and its ingestion is an important pathway for …

Background: In 2008, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National
Toxicology Program, the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for …

Existence of emerging contaminants in the environment is of great importance for health risk
assessment. The consensus on categories and numbers of the emerging contaminants in …

Environmental health studies relate how exposures (eg, chemicals) affect human health and
disease; however, in most cases, the molecular and biological mechanisms connecting an …

Purpose Reducing chemical pressure on human and environmental health is an integral
part of the global sustainability agenda. Guidelines for deriving globally applicable, life cycle …

Janesick and colleagues recently published an evaluation of the utility of ToxCast™ and
Tox21 bioactivity data for predicting PPARγ activation and induction of adipogenesis. As …

Abstract Background Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs) include a very wide group of
chemicals that are suspected to be responsible for adverse effects on health, but for which …

The development of the exposome concept has been one of the hallmarks of environmental
and health research for the last decade. The exposome encompasses the life course …