The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center was established in 1996 to promote environmental health research in Southern California. The Center aims to more fully characterize environmental health hazards, understand the basis for personal vulnerability, and translate research into preventive action to reduce the burden of environmentally-related diseases.
The Center is organized into an Administrative Core, four Research Cores, two Facility Cores and a Community Outreach and Education Core. This consortium of epidemiologists, statisticians, chemists, toxicologists, and molecular biologists collaborate to create an interdisciplinary approach to the study and advancement of research in environmental health. Read more
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Study Points to Environmental Factors of Autism
By Ellin Kavanagh on December 17, 2010
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Ph.DLiving near a freeway may be associated with increased risk of autism, according to a study published by a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of California at Davis MIND Institute.
The paper appears online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
"Children born to mothers living within 309 meters of a freeway appeared to be twice as likely to have autism," said Heather Volk, the study's first author.
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