by mnobrega | Sep 11, 2019 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, Human Subjects Core, Project 3
Researchers and trainees from CRECE and PROTECT attended and presented at the 31st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2019). This year’s conference was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from August 25th through 28th. A...
by mnobrega | Jul 8, 2019 | Project 3
Recent environmental articles have increasingly focused on the potential dangers of chemicals that seem ever present and almost unavoidable in many facets of modern life. At CRECE, PROTECT and ECHO, we study many different chemicals which are present in the...
by mnobrega | Oct 22, 2018 | CRECE Team, Project 3
Recent analysis from the CRECE Center, which draws on the PROTECT cohort to study effects of in-utero exposure on child development, reveals strong correlations between the use of specific bar soap brands and urinary triclocarban levels. Triclocarban has historically...
by mnobrega | May 9, 2018 | CRECE Team, Project 3
Dr. Deborah Watkins, a researcher for both CRECE’s Project 3and PROTECT’s Project 1, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the impacts Hurricane Maria has had on pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes, and...
by mnobrega | Nov 8, 2017 | Community Outreach and Translation Core, CRECE Team, Human Subjects Core, Project 3
CRECE team members attended the 2017 NIEHS/EPA Children’s Centers Annual Grantee Meeting held on October 24-25 in San Francisco, CA. The jointly-funded EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers Annual Meeting serves as an opportunity for researchers working with Children’s Centers...
by mnobrega | Apr 19, 2016 | Project 3
The CDC recommends the use of DEET to protect people against the mosquito that carries the Zika virus, especially pregnant women. But there are very few published studies looking at the possible effects of DEET on unborn children, and none of the existing studies...
