Founded in 2024, the Environmental Health SIG is intended to be a community for all facets of environmental health in hospital medicine.

People who live in areas with social and environmental adversities may have up to twice the increased risk for developing heart disease and stroke, according to new research published in the Journal ...

Personal factors explained significant variance in five of six participation outcomes (R² 13%–48%), while environmental factors added ~11% for satisfaction and ~11% for GPS-based activity. Perceived ...

A new study from the University of Georgia College of Public Health focuses on the powerful role our surroundings play in shaping dementia risk. Led by Assistant Professor of Health Policy and ...

Epigenetics, the study of changes in gene function that do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence, plays a pivotal role in understanding the complex interplay between genetics and the environment ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

The Southeast Family Health Center and Clinic is offering a new environmental health clinic. Photo by Marina Newman. San Francisco has opened a new clinic to test some Bayview-Hunters Point residents ...

A new data tool from researchers at UCLA highlights significant environmental health disparities between Latino and white neighborhoods in L.A., providing critical insights amid escalating public ...