There is increasing public concern of the environment in which we live and the effect it has on our health:

        Is the water safe to drink?

        Could my miscarriage be due to my work environment?

        Are the pesticides used on my produce going to give me cancer?

   These are a few of the many questions to which people seek concrete-definitive answers. Unfortunately, answering these questions is not always as easy as a yes or no. Over the past decade more and more information has become available to provide some insight to the integral relationship between the environment and health.

   To that end, the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Division of Industrial, Occupational, and Environmental Health and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection have partnered to compile adequate, appropriate information relative to environmental risk and health.


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Last Modified August 1, 2001