World Trade Center Responders at Increased Risk for Head and Neck Cancers A Rutgers study has found a significant increase in head and neck cancers among workers and volunteers who responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC), pointing to newly emerging risks that require ongoing monitoring and treatment of those who were exposed…
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First Risk Assessment Boot Camp Co-sponsored by EOHSI -January 10 & 11, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iuHEI5zdw On Jan 10-11, 2019, the first annual Boot Camp for Risk Assessment was held in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. Over the two days, the lecture topics included risk analysis, systematic review, data quality, weight of…
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NJTV News Interview with Emily Barrett, Ph.D.: Asbestos in Baby Talc Powder Linked to a Variety of Cancers “Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services have named asbestos as a carcinogen, so that’s a chemical that causes cancer in the body. So it’s been linked to a variety of…
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