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About ehponline
Welcome to ehponline, the website of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to the effect of the environment on human health. EHP comprises 17 issues annually with monthly sections devoted to children’s health and environmental medicine, a toxicogenomics research section published in separate quarterly issues, and an annual review issue. We also publish the quarterly EHP Chinese-Language Edition and occasional special issues. Publications of the National Toxicology Program including the Report on Carcinogens are also available on ehponline.
EHP is a publication of the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The Secretary of Health and Human Services has deemed EHP to be necessary in the transaction of the public business required by law of this department.
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Publication of articles in EHP does not mean that the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) condones, endorses, approves, or recommends the use of any products, services, materials, methodology, or policies stated therein. Conclusions and opinions are those of the individual authors and advertisers only and do not reflect the policies or views of the NIEHS.
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