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, ...

In the dynamic world of real estate, various factors influence property values. One significant but often overlooked aspect is the environment surrounding a property. Environmental factors can either ...

Scientists have used data from almost half a million people in the UK Biobank to investigate an old question - is nature (or our genes), or nurture (environmental factors) a greater contributor to our ...

Evidence of environmental risk factors’ negative impact on heart health has greatly increased, leading to several cardiology societies to issue a joint statement encouraging regulations to reduce risk ...

U.S. Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed views on the causes of autism that clash with scientific evidence. With statements like "genes don't cause an epidemic," he emphasizes ...

Neighborhoods with more adversity have up to twice the increased risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a new study. People who live in areas with social and environmental adversities may have ...

Knowledge on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) risk factors may help inform public health authorities on high-risk populations, researchers suggest. “Although existing evidence from community-based ...

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 ...

A large cross-sectional study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, examined how ...