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Bethesda, MD Dr. Collman serves as acting deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to that, for the past 11 years, she has been an active member of the NIEHS executive leadership team in her role as director of the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT). She led the implementation of many exciting scientific programs with partners from NIH institutes and centers, and other federal agencies. Dr. Collman has directed scientific activities across the field of environmental health ...

May 21, 2021 06:00 PM EDT According to a new University of Michigan study, exposure to a chemical discovered in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is greatly linked to preterm births. (Photo : Freestocks.org) Exposure to Glyphosate   The study, released in Environmental Health Perspectives, discovered that the appearance of the chemical in the urine of women in late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for untimely birth, while the connection was inconsistent or ineffective during the early stage of the pregnancy. Professor of environmental health scien...

Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Silent Spring Institute presented to the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners Wednesday, April 7, about the level of certain potentially toxic chemicals in the water on Cape Cod and its current testing for them. Founded in 1994, Silent Spring Institute is a Massachusetts-based scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the links between chemicals found in the everyday environment and women’s health, with a focus on breast cancer prevention. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are manufactured chemicals that are resistant to degradation and can be found i...