James Huff, an associate director at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the N.

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All three were funded by grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, among other sources.

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Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the University of Iowa recently found that bacteria in household dust are a major problem for asthma sufferers.

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According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, roaches "are common even in the cleanest of crowded urban areas and older dwellings" and are found in all types of neighborhoods.

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According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the recommendation to keep saccharin on the carcinogen list or remove it will occur at a peer-reviewed committee meeting at the end of October.

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Dr. Joseph Graziano, interim department chair of environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, said the public should switch away from lead bullets -- even if the research is still developing.

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The research by University of Idaho and Washington State University scientists in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

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Becker is a professor of Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

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