Thomas A. Burke

TL;DR: The NRC report tackles a number of topics relating to improvements in the process, including the design and framing of risk assessments, uncertainty and variability characterization, selection and use of defaults, unification of cancer and noncancer dose-response assessment, cumulative risk assessment, and the need to increase EPA's capacity to address these improvements.

TL;DR: Analyzing the role of climate in the emergence of human infectious diseases will require interdisciplinary cooperation among physicians, climatologists, biologists, and social scientists to help optimize preventive strategies.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence on the association between arsenic and cardiovascular outcomes in Taiwan found limited interpretation of the moderate-to-strong associations between high arsenic exposure and cardiovascular outcome in Taiwan.

TL;DR: The current available evidence is inadequate to establish a causal role of arsenic in diabetes, and experimental studies using arsenic concentrations relevant to human exposure and prospective epidemiologic studies measuring arsenic biomarkers and appropriately assessing diabetes should be a research priority.

TL;DR: There is a need for policies to reduce Hg exposure among women and infants and for surveillance in high-risk populations, the majority of which live in low-and middle-income countries.