Exposure science, outbreaks, and the research linking the environment to human health.
A JAMA paper and the newly released city records, read together: the World Trade Center exposure is producing cancers at exactly the latency the textbooks predicted. The doctor who ran the original worker evaluations says the city “was not being honest.” Follow-on to our September 10 deep dive.
Particulate and nitrogen dioxide exposure associated with elevated risk. The authors say it’s correlational and probably reflects vulnerable environments. That caveat is the whole article.
PCR found Legionella at ten cooling towers. PCR can’t tell you if it’s alive or if it’s the outbreak strain. Culture results in two weeks. Follow-on to our September 14 piece.
Centric Compounding pulled glutathione, Myer’s Cocktail, and Tri-Immune Boost injectables. Endotoxin survives sterilization when the bacteria don’t. Here’s what that tells you about the room they were made in.
Mount Sinai followed 18,734 WTC responders for 25 years and found that hotter, more polluted neighborhoods raised their risk of frailty, PTSD, and depression, and that the most-exposed responders were the most sensitive to it. That’s cumulative risk, in a workforce you know.
Salmonella Bovismorbificans across four western states, traced to one grower. The product got pulled. Nobody told the people who’d already bought it.
Researchers grouped 15,000-plus food contact chemicals by structure and flagged 4,222 in 38 priority groups. The method matters as much as the number.
The city announced five measures after the summer cluster. The compliance number is the one to remember.
New research links living near pyrethroid and organophosphate applications to higher gestational diabetes risk. The exposure metric is proximity, not handling. That’s the part worth paying attention to.
A new study using single urine samples didn’t find the pesticide-neurodevelopment link that years of longitudinal research found. That’s not a contradiction. It’s a lesson in sampling design, and it’s the same one that decides whether your air monitoring means anything.
Contamination, pollution, and the regulatory fights over air, water, and land.
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