Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Identifying, controlling, and preventing population exposures to potentially harmful ...

Human biomonitoring is a modern movement which aims to monitor and measure the exposure of humans to various environmental substances, natural or synthetic. Many techniques are used in this monitoring ...

Intrinsik Corp. is today releasing the results of the Rouyn-Noranda Arsenic Biomonitoring Program, conducted between April ...

Human biomonitoring employs several techniques that can assess the level of environmental pollution a person has been exposed to and the affects of such contaminants on the human body. It can also be ...

A committee of the National Academies will review current practices and recommend ways to improve the interpretation and uses of human biomonitoring data for environmental toxicants (e.g., levels of ...

The ability to measure chemicals in humans (often termed biomonitoring) is far outpacing the ability to reliably interpret these data for public health purposes, creating a major knowledge gap. Until ...

Exposure assessment is a critical component of exposure science. Among the techniques that can be used for exposure assessment, biomonitoring is increasingly becoming one of the most popular choices.

Recurrent wheezing is a serious morbidity, and it is estimated that about one-third of school-age children exhibit this symptom in the first five years of life. Recurrent wheezing in childhood is a ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have demonstrated that a simple adjustment to water filtration methods can dramatically improve the detection of marine animal DNA when using advanced, PCR-free ...

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a multi-year project to assess firefighters’ exposure to PFAS in firefighting foams used to fight fires ...