The OPHSS Paper of the Year Award is given annually to research groups who embody the OPHSS mission—to advance the integration of exposure, toxicological and epidemiological principles, and research approaches in addressing occupational, environmentally related, and public health issues. We are...
Human health risk assessment has four critical components: hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response assessment, and risk characterization. However, human health risk assessment is traditionally hazard driven because the exposure data is limited at the initial stage and usually...
D.H. Lawrence’s poem "New Heaven and Earth" describes the English poet’s delight when experiencing and fathoming the “unknown unknown.” Tuesday’s symposium session, "Unknown, Unknowns: Exploring the Unidentified Fraction of Complex Mixtures," featured mixtures experts who take equal delight in...
In a word: Yes! Efforts by pharmaceutical companies to reproduce the findings of papers have grim statistics: The results of only six of 53 papers could be reproduced by Amgen, and only 14 out of 67 could be reproduced by Bayer. The first speaker of the "Scientific Reproducibility: Does This...
With biofuels, such as ethanol-gasoline blends and biodiesel, being used on a wider scale globally, there is a range of implications related to their use. These issues were discussed during the session titled “ Are Biofuels More or Less Toxic Than Conventional Fuels and What Are the Implications...
Today’s session titled “ Understanding the Implications of Breastfed Infant Exposure to POPs: How Can We Do Better? ” focused on the discussion of methods for estimating breastfed infant exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and the potential application of these methods in human...
As its title implies, today’s Roundtable Session entitled “Hydraulic Fracturing: Are There Worker Health Issues” brought together diverse views and stakeholder groups to discuss how risk to workers may be further mitigated related to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Natural gas...
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