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Dr. Collman serves as acting deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to that, for the past 11 years, she has been an active member of the NIEHS executive leadership team in her role as director of the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training (DERT). She led the implementation of many exciting scientific programs with partners from NIH institutes and centers, and other federal agencies. Dr. Collman has directed scientific activities across the field of environmental health sciences, including basic sciences organ-specific toxicology, public health-related programs, and training and career development. She also oversees the implementation of the Superfund Research Program and the Worker Education and Training Program. She is credited with building the NIEHS grant portfolio in environmental and molecular epidemiology, and she has also developed several complex multi
May 21, 2021 06:00 PM EDT
According to a new University of Michigan study, exposure to a chemical discovered in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is greatly linked to preterm births.
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Exposure to Glyphosate
The study, released in Environmental Health Perspectives, discovered that the appearance of the chemical in the urine of women in late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for untimely birth, while the connection was inconsistent or ineffective during the early stage of the pregnancy.
Professor of environmental health sciences and also senior associate dean for research at the U-M School of Public Health, senior author John Meeker said: Since many people are prone to some level of glyphosate and may not even be aware of it, if our outcomes reflect true connection, then the public health implications could be massive. Monica Silver - first author led the study while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sch
Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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