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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 1999;282:224-225.

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While physicians and public health officials have made substantial inroads in eradicating childhood infectious diseases in this country, even eliminating some such as polio and smallpox, new concerns are being raised about the increase in chronic and disabling conditions such as asthma, cancer, and neurodevelopmental dysfunction.

This illustration, designed by Lauren Wohl, appears through the courtesy of the Children's Environmental Health Network, a national multidisciplinary project whose mission is to promote a healthy environment and protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards. (Credit: Children's Environmental Health Network)

Researchers, government, and academic institutions are focusing their energies on these problems. They want to understand what is causing the increase and find ways to eliminate, or improve treatment for, these conditions.

In April, a new entity joined the search—the Center for Children's Health and the Environment in New York City. The center was created and will be . . . [Full Text of this Article]