Research: GITTERMAN and BEARER,

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Abstract

GITTERMAN and BEARER, Departments of Pediatrics and Public Health, George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Health Services, General and Community Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA, bgitterm@cnmc.org, reviewed (73 references) literature pertaining to differences (compared with adults) in the ways children respond to environmental toxic substances .

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References

Gitterman BA, Bearer CF. A developmental approach to pediatric environmental health. Pediatric Clinics of North America 48 (5): 1071-83. Oct 2001.

Comment

When historians look back on the 20th and 21st centuries, it is likely that environmental medicine will figure largely in the epidemics of cancer currently affecting about a third of the population of the developed world. Hopefully we won't all be dead by that time!

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