EDC Science Weekly, Jan. 12-18, 2024

A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week. 
 
Contents: Events, Regulations/Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries, Reviews/Meta-Analyses, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
 
 
 
Events
 
Webinar Jan. 25: CHE Café: Multisolving for climate, chemicals & health [CHE and the New School at Commonweal]
 

CME course Feb. 13: How Environmental Health Research Guides Clinical Care: PFAS, Obesity, and Bone Health [The Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and the New England Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit]

 
 
Webinar Feb. 22: Tattoo Inks, Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases: Gaps in research and regulation [in Spanish and English, via CHE]
 
Conference Mar. 11-14: 10th Copenhagen Workshop on Endocrine Disruptors – COW2024. Abstracts are due Feb. 1.
 
Meeting March 22: HEEDS EDC- North Carolina annual meeting [free and open to anyone]
 
Gordon Research Conference on EDCs June 23-28, Tuscany Italy.

 

Methods/Tools/Screening 
 
 
 

Exploring the Mixture Assessment or Allocation Factor (MAF): a brief overview of the current discourse

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Commentaries
 
Reviews/Meta-Analyses
 
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures 
Phthalates
 
 
Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials
 
 
PFAS
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
Metals/Metalloids
 
 
 
 
Plastics/Microplastics/Nanomaterials
 
 
 
 
 
 
Air Pollution
Human Health Studies
 
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures  
 
 
 
 

BPA/Phenols

 
 
Phthalates
 
 
 
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
 
 
PFAS
 
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
 
 
Metals/Metalloids
 
 
 
 
 
Air Pollution
 
 
 
Laboratory Studies
 
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
 
 
 

BPA/Phenols

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Phthalates
 
 
 
Parabens/Triclosan/Antimicrobials
 
 
 
PFAS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
 
 
 
Organotins  
 
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Metals/Metalloids
 
 
 
 
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exposure/Environment Studies
 
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
 
 
 
 
 

BPA/Phenols

 
 
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
 
 
 
PFAS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
 
 
 
 
Air Pollution
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This list is not meant to be exhaustive, and generally does not include studies on detection, remediation, or treatment of EDCs. Note that journal publication dates may be different from dates added to PubMed. To see the searchable archives, please email me and ask to join the EDC Science Weekly group EDC_research@googlegroups.com. The searchable archives are at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/edc_research or online at https://heeds.org/category/edc-science-weekly/. Compiled by Sarah Howard of Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS), a program of Environmental Health Sciences
 

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