Philip J. Landrigan

Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., is an American epidemiologist and pediatrician and one of the world's leading advocates of children's health. His work has been recognized by national non-profit organization (Lifetime Achievement Award)...

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...and emotional problems. Children - who breathe more air in proportion to their weight than adults do - may be more vulnerable. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician who leads a unit on children and the environment at Mount Sinai School of...

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Working in the 1970s with children living near a lead smelting plant in West Texas, pediatrician and scientist Philip J. Landrigan made some startling, though now well-accepted, discoveries about the way lead affects children. Ignoring the...

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...in Queens, New York, has a population of 2.23 million and is home to thousands of immigrants from more than 100 nations, said Dr. Philip Landrigan, Principal Investigator, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Like many urban counties...

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...survey done between September and November 2005. The sample was weighted by race and gender, based on census information. Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician who heads the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of...

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...to lung inlammation. Some of the disorders persisted for years. Others will last for a too-short lifetime. I spoke this morning to Philip Landrigan, a Mount Sinai Medical Center epidemiologist who has studied and treated the disaster's...

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...issues among survivors. Some 12 percent to 15 percent of people report persistent mental health problems, said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, who oversees The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at the Mount Sinai...

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...in doing in this country is reduce the incidence of lead poisoning by 90 percent and the blood lead levels by 90 percent," said Philip Landrigan, the head of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of...

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...11 attacks, but warned that there's no way to determine how many more may become afflicted with life-threatening illnesses. Dr. Philip Landrigan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine described three months of recent medical treatment to a...

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...not be used as subjects if alternative volunteers could be found because inmates are less free to offer informed consent. Philip J. Landrigan, a pediatrician who chairs the Community and Preventive Medicine Department at the Mount Sinai...

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