Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...
Understanding what autoimmune diseases are, what triggers them and how they’re treated can be a powerful first step toward ...
Asal Shirazi, Founder of ASA Foundation, shares insights into what drives inflammatory responses, including the role of ...
In a recent study published in Nature Aging, scientists discuss new geroscience tools and methods to study how environmental exposures can impact the trajectory of aging and formulate strategies to ...
Dr. Brian Leydet sees a connection between the environment and disease that may be mitigated with conservation measures that include humans in the equation. Leydet is researching that connection on ...
The air in Mexico City was once so toxic that people watched as dead birds fell out of the sky. In 1992, the United Nations declared the city the most polluted in the world, with its unregulated ...
Up to 90% of disease incidence is thought to be influenced by environmental, biological and social exposures, not genes alone Exposomics aims to map and study all lifetime exposures as a complement to ...
Back in 2002, Philip Landrigan and a team of other researchers at Mount Sinai Medical School estimated the annual cost of four childhood conditions — lead poisoning, cancer, developmental disabilities ...