• Climate change affects the physical environment, ecosystems and human societies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The effects of human-caused climate change are broad and far-reaching. (wikipedia.org)
  • Climate change has profound impacts on human health. (wikipedia.org)
  • Humans are vulnerable and exposed to climate change in different ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists use several methods to predict the effects of human-caused climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, delivering on another commitment in the President's Climate Action Plan , the Obama Administration released a new final report called The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment , which significantly advances what we know about the impacts of climate change on public health, and the confidence with which we know it. (archives.gov)
  • Future ozone-related human health impacts attributable to climate change are projected to lead to hundreds to thousands of premature deaths, hospital admissions, and cases of acute respiratory illnesses each year in the United States by 2030, including increases in asthma episodes and other adverse respiratory effects in children. (archives.gov)
  • The committee describes three of the largest challenges EPA is facing to illustrate the need for ORD to identify and apply advanced scientific tools and methods for meeting these complex challenges: (1) holistically addressing interconnected human health and ecological risks, (2) characterizing and addressing environmental justice and cumulative risk, and (3) anticipating and responding to the human health and environmental impacts of climate change. (nationalacademies.org)
  • This article provides a conceptual model for the pathways by which climate change could operate to impact geographies and property markets whose inferior or superior qualities for supporting the built environment are subject to a descriptive theory known as 'Climate Gentrification. (researchgate.net)
  • These preferences and perceptions are anticipated to be amplified by climate change in a manner that reinforces the proposition that climate change impacts will affect the marketability and valuation of property with varying degrees of environmental exposure and resilience functionality. (researchgate.net)
  • Extensive water damage after major hurricanes and floods increases the likelihood of mold contamination in buildings. (cdc.gov)
  • Although U.S. nuclear power plant regulators monitor operational safety, natural hazards (such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes), human error, mechanical failure, and design flaws can still trigger the release of radioactive contamination. (nrdc.org)
  • On August 29 and September 24, 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, respectively, made landfall along the Gulf Coast. (cdc.gov)
  • The duration of flooding, the extent of flooding, and the number of structures flooded in New Orleans as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005 made the likelihood of massive mold contamination a certainty. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent parallels to the kind of flooding observed in New Orleans as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita occurred in 1997 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and in 1999 in North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Following Hurricane Katrina, the uniformed US Public Health Service created an updated system through which its officers participated in emergency responses. (cdc.gov)
  • Using publicly available data we propose a conceptual framework to study pathway perturbations leading to toxicity of chemical mixtures. (cdc.gov)
  • Rising temperature and increases in flooding, runoff events, and drought will likely lead to increases in the occurrence and transport of pathogens in agricultural environments, which will increase the risk of food contamination and human exposure to pathogens and toxins. (archives.gov)
  • These genes could be central for the interconnecting biological pathways potentially stimulated by TEX exposure, likely related to respiratory and neuro diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • The cumulative impacts of human activities, including chemical, physical, and biological stressors, are resulting in ubiquitous threats to human health and in massive declines in biodiversity and planetary sustainability (e.g. (nationalacademies.org)
  • We believe that hormesis is a fundamental process of human biology widely applicable in both a theoretical and practical sense across a very wide variety of health and aging issues. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • NIEHS research uses state-of-the-art science and technology to investigate the interplay between environmental exposures, human biology, genetics, and common diseases to help prevent disease and improve human health. (nih.gov)
  • 48 hours will generally support visible and extensive mold growth and should be remediated, and excessive exposure to mold-contaminated materials can cause adverse health effects in susceptible persons regardless of the type of mold or the extent of contamination. (cdc.gov)
  • The direct relevance of any of these outcomes to human health is uncertain, and it is possible that many adverse health effects of exposure through breastfeeding have not yet been studied. (cdc.gov)
  • Most human health issues under the purview of EPA arise from environmental exposures that at the same time can cause effects in wildlife and ecosystems. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Mixtures risk assessment needs an efficient integration of in vivo, in vitro and in silico data with epidemiology and human studies data. (cdc.gov)
  • The recoded model was evaluated and applied to exposure scenarios to evaluate the validity of dose additivity for mixtures. (cdc.gov)
  • As part of the US Geological Survey (USGS) response to Hurricane Sandy, a Sediment-bound Contaminant Resiliency and Response (SCoRR) strategy has been developed to define baseline and post-event sediment-bound environmental health stressors. (usgs.gov)
  • The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is expanding and accelerating its contributions to scientific knowledge of human health and the environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere. (nih.gov)
  • The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and the environment. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Anticipatory science helps to identify the unintended consequences of rapidly evolving technologies and to inform actions to prevent or mitigate the introduction of environmental hazards that may result in harmful exposures over the full life cycle of a product or process. (nationalacademies.org)
  • For example, current use and legacy "forever chemicals," such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are widespread in the environment, with human and environmental exposures through food-chain air, soil, and water contamination ( NASEM, 2022a ). (nationalacademies.org)
  • TRP and its metabolites have key roles in diverse physiological processes including cell growth and maintenance, immunity, disease states and the coordination of adaptive responses to environmental and dietary cues. (mdpi.com)
  • Collectively, this information was used to establish hypotheses on potential linkages between TEX exposures and human health. (cdc.gov)
  • 2022. Evaluating predictive relationships between wristbands and urine for assessment of personal PAH exposure. (nih.gov)
  • This report provides information on how to limit exposure to mold and how to identify and prevent mold-related health effects. (cdc.gov)
  • Such a surveillance program will help CDC and state and local public health officials refine the guidelines for exposure avoidance, personal protection, and clean-up and assist health departments to identify unrecognized hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • Fundamental to understanding hormesis is a dose response-curve which I have discussed in previous blog entries and included yet-again here. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • Understanding the typical dose-response curve associated with hormesis is critical for interpreting seemingly contradictory research. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • Bone loss in microgravity is an excellent model for osteoporosis because it is accelerated, progressive, and dose-dependent, yet bone loss equilibrates over long durations of microgravity exposure. (issnationallab.org)
  • However, there are few chemical-specific summaries of the potential harms of exposure to PFAS during the neonatal period through breastfeeding. (cdc.gov)
  • As the climate continues to change, the risks to human health will grow, exacerbating existing health threats and creating new public health challenges, and impacting more people in more places. (archives.gov)
  • Evidence is included about assessing exposure, clean-up and prevention, personal protective equipment, health effects, and public health strategies and recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • This systematic review explores whether exposure to PFAS through breastfeeding is associated with adverse health outcomes among infants and children using evidence from human and animal studies. (cdc.gov)
  • Animal studies provided evidence of associations between exposure to PFOA through breastfeeding and reduced early life body weight gain, mammary gland development and thyroid hormone levels. (cdc.gov)
  • They also provided limited evidence of associations between PFOS exposure through breastfeeding with reduced early life body weight gain and cellular changes in the hippocampus. (cdc.gov)
  • The results show that 236 genes expressed were common between the short-term and long-term exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • In North Carolina, a reported increase in persons presenting with asthma symptoms was postulated to be caused by exposure to mold ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This blog entry generalizes on the concept of hormesis, discusses the multiple pathways through which hormesis takes place, and suggests a myriad of ways that ordinary people can take advantage of hormesis to maintain their health and possibly extend their lifespans. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • Between 2006 and 2016, the RDF 3 team deployed multiple times in response to natural disasters and public health emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • This ground project aims to analyze, normalize, and consolidate bone data from rodent research experiments in space for open source distribution as standardized control data to aid future researchers working on novel musculoskeletal disease treatments for humans. (issnationallab.org)
  • [ 5 ] Clinical symptoms may be present within seconds of exposure. (medscape.com)
  • These in turn impact nature and wildlife, as well as human settlements and societies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many structures remained flooded for weeks after the hurricane and became saturated with water. (cdc.gov)
  • Cellular response to drug samples is observable via visible data acquisition in both tissues and small animal models. (issnationallab.org)
  • The vertical axis represents relative risk, level of probable pathological organism response where normal level is 1. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • Hormesis is a process through which moderate stress induces a body response that is protective against insults, confers health and possibly even longevity benefits. (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • On a more macroscopic level it could represent the amount of whole-body radiation received due to an exposure event or to the amount of exposure to carbon monoxide or to stress due to being at high altitude (hypoxia). (anti-agingfirewalls.com)
  • Human health cannot be well protected in unsafe environments, and the environment cannot be well protected in the face of detrimental human activities. (nationalacademies.org)
  • 490 Biotech's reporter-gene system for substrate-free bioluminescent human cell lines is an enabling technology for the evaluation of drug safety and effectiveness. (issnationallab.org)
  • This project will demonstrate the utility of a human nerve-on-a-chip as a model for studying disorders affecting myelin (a substance that surrounds the axon of nerve fibers, forming an insulating layer). (issnationallab.org)
  • The review included 37 total articles, including 9 animal studies and 1 human study measuring the direct contribution of exposure of the infant or pup through milk for any health outcome. (cdc.gov)