The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIESH) is the government agency that funds research on the connections between the environment and health problems. The NIESH is working on their Strategic plan and has a web site where Visionary Ideas can be submitted for consideration. Birth Defect Research for Children has posted the following idea:
Children's Centers To Study Prenatal Effects of Dioxins
The children of Vietnam veterans are the largest living laboratory for studying the possible adverse reproductive outcomes of their parent(s)' exposures to dioxins. Data collection on thousands of cases of children reported by their parents to the National Birth Defect Registry suggests a pattern of adverse outcomes that includes increases in learning, attention, immune and endocrine disorders. Creating a NIEHS center(s) to study these reproductive outcomes could contribute to a valuable database of knowledge on the reproductive effects of dioxins that would be applicable to exposures in the civilian environment.
To vote on this idea, go to http://strategicplan.niehs.nih.gov/a/ideafactory.do?id=12617&mode=top&discussionFilter=active and register by clicking Register in top right hand corner. Once registered, you can find the project under "Hot Ideas". Please vote and encourage all other veterans and interested parties to vote also. For more information send an email to betty@birthdefects.org
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This is great. I wish they would also help the children who lived on Guam and other areas! This includes me. I am now 47, but my health has been severely affected as have others who also lived there during Vietnam!!!
i cant find the link to vote plaes help me is there anything we can do to get teasted?
I can't find it either
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