A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed over the past 2 weeks.
Contents: Events, Regulations/ Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries, Reviews/Meta-Analyses, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
Highlights:
- Regrettable for Whom? GenX Chemicals as a Case Study in Detrimental Chemical Substitution
- What do people need to know about endocrine disrupting chemicals and health?
- Environmental factors influencing hormone receptor positive breast cancer incidence: integrating chemical signatures from dust wipes with self-reported sources of exposure.
Events
Dec. 10 webinar: CHE Café: Why Parkinson’s disease is preventable [CHE]
Jan. 11-14: Microplastics exposure and human health conference [in person in Santa Fe, NM]
Jan. 15: application due date for May 26- June 9 course, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Hazards and Opportunities (ECHO) [Marine Biological Laboratory]
Jan. 23: application due date for the Endocrine Society’s Research Experiences for Graduate and Medical Students program.
Regulations/Policy
More EDC policy, FPF’s regulations open for comment, and Science’s Trump-Tracker.
Methods/Tools/Screening
Commentaries
Carcinogenicity of atrazine, alachlor, and vinclozolin. [News re IARC decision in The Lancet Oncology]
Invisible Invaders: How Nanoplastics Hijack the Brain and Accelerate Alzheimer’s Pathology. [re Cerebral to Systemic Representations of Alzheimer’s Pathogenesis Stimulated by Polystyrene Nanoplastics.]
Reviews/Meta-Analyses
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
Phthalates
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Air Pollution
Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products
Miscellaneous
Bisphenols
Phthalates
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Pregnancy blood pressure trajectories in relation to high PFAS exposure: A longitudinal study from the Ronneby mother-child cohort.
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Metals/Metalloids
Air Pollution
Laboratory Studies
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
Bisphenols
Phthalates
Parabens/Triclosan/ Antimicrobials
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products
Miscellaneous
Exposure/Environment Studies
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
Bisphenols
PFAS
Pesticides
Metals/Metalloids
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Miscellaneous
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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. Industry-funded articles are included without notation. 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. There are searchable archives. Compiled by Sarah Howard of Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS), a program of Environmental Health Sciences.
