Your Health – Your Environment Blog Posts
New CDC Document Offers Emergency Managers Guidance for Identifying and Engaging At-Risk Groups
When preparing for an emergency, responders aim to be able to reach every person in a community. Emergency managers must be able to quickly get information to all community members- even the hardest to reach. Emergency managers need to know in advance which groups are at greatest risk of harm during an emergency, where the Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentTracking Developmental Disabilities and the Environment
On the first Monday in October, celebrate National Child Health Day – which the President of the United States has proclaimed every year since 1928. NCEH’s Environmental Health Tracking Branch provides valuable data on children’s health by tracking developmental disabilities and other children’s environmental health issues. Read More >
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How much do you know about uranium? Do you know that it is naturally present in nearly all rocks, soils, and air? Or that nearly everyone is exposed to low amounts of uranium in food and water? For much of the U.S. population, uranium exposure stays at these low levels. But in the 1940s, federal Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentATSDR Develops New ALS Biorepository
The National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ASTDR) “Your Health, Your Environment” blog helps to increase public knowledge about environmental health by sharing our concerns, work, and information you can use in your daily life. Many people know Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) as Lou Gehrig’s disease, named Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentAll Scientists are Artists at Heart
Meet Dr. Zsuzsanna (Susan) Kuklenyik, Senior Research Scientist and Analytical Chemist, Clinical Chemistry Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC. Read More >
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Do you remember your first black and white television? Did you ever wonder how crawling under your desk could protect you from an atomic bomb? Did you watch the Beatles when they made their first American appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show? If you can answer yes to these questions, you are very likely a Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentProtect Your Groundwater Day
Protect Your Groundwater Day is an annual observance sponsored by the National Ground Water Association This day brings attention to the importance of protecting ground water as a valuable resource. The observance also stresses the need for simple ways everyone can act to protect groundwater, and why we all have a stake in maintaining its Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentNational Preparedness Month
Throughout the month of September, CDC and more than 3000 organizations—national, regional, and local governments, as well as private and public organizations—will support emergency preparedness efforts and encourage Americans to take action. For Preparedness Month 2015, the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) supports the Office of Public Health Read More >
Posted on by 1 CommentMeet the Scientist: Dr. Suzanne (Suzy) Kalb
Meet Research Chemist Dr. Suzanne (Suzy) Kalb, who works in CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences, Clinical Chemistry Branch. The downside of organic chemistry for most students was the interesting upside for Dr. Kalb. Organic chemistry is a tough pre-requisite course for medical school. “It’s less memorization, and it’s more about Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentA Story of Health
This new eBook is an interactive document with multiple chapters that features prompts for embedded information and links to online resources on how to promote health and prevent disease. Download your free copy today! What is A Story of Health? A Story of Health is an interactive eBook that explains the many factors that influence Read More >
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