NIEHS unveils health research plan.(regulatory)(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)(Brief article)

Government scientists will place more emphasis on using environmental health sciences to understand the causes of disease, says National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS; Washington) director David Schwartz. NIEHS, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, says the focus in the past has been on supporting individual scientists whose work is focused on either basic biological responses to environmental agents or environmental problems in public health. The new approach emphasizes research focused on complex human disease, and calls for inter-disciplinary teams of scientists to look at a broader range of potential disease factors, including …