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A study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that exposure to lead during pregnancy and early childhood may accelerate the rate at which children forget information—a critical marker of memory impairment that may have implications for learning and development.
Solar radiation is hazardous for children. Blistering sunburns in childhood and adolescence are especially dangerous and are strongly associated with increased risk of skin cancer. Blond or red-haired and blue-eyed children, who often have lighter complexions, are at highest risk of solar injury, because their skin contains smaller quantities of the protective pigment, melanin, than children with darker complexions.
A healthy school environment that includes access to clean air and water and safe spaces to play is critical to children’s health and well-being.
Megan K. Horton, PhD MPH works within the ongoing longitudinal birth cohort in Mexico City called PROGRESS. In this webinar, she will discuss cutting edge research linking early life metal exposure reconstructed from baby teeth with structural and function brain changes measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in children and adolescents.
Early life metal exposures, including lead, manganese, and other toxic metals, can have a significant impact on brain development in children.
Researchers from the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai found that the growing incidence of a potentially cancer-causing liver disease in children is associated with prenatal exposure to several endocrine-disrupting chemicals
A new study will examine the relationship between the built environment, community spread, and the likelihood of transmission of COVID-19 within school settings
Researchers use a novel machine learning algorithm to discover that early exposure to a variety of toxic air pollutants can lead to poor asthma outcomes
Researchers from the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research are first to find ultrafine particles from traffic pollution influences asthma risk in U.S. children
Dr. Wright reviews evidence linking psychological stress to asthma expression in children. She highlights protective effects of nutrition and the early caregiving environment.
Dr. Petrick shares results from a groundbreaking study that showed differences in dry blood samples from healthy infants to infants that were later diagnosed with childhood leukemia.
Webinar by: Lauren Zajac, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Erin Thanik, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Webinar by: Maida P. Galvez, MD, MPH, Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Years-old dried blood spots collected from newborns hold vital clues in the discovery of early environmental exposure links to disease, new studies show.
Higher levels of exposure to phthalates in early pregnancy stages are associated with less masculine types of play.
