Environmental Health

FIGO presents our statement on Health, Environment and Climate Change at the 144th WHO Executive Board Meeting.

Research shows that whether we are concerned with reproductive health, cancer, infertility, neonatal and childhood health or neurodevelopment; toxic exposures are implicated.

Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy may not be linked to an increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other symptoms of hyperactivity in children, according to new research. The study was carried out at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain,...

Exposing pregnant women and children to common thyroid-hormone-disrupting toxins could have serious implications for brain development. That is according to a new review from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sorbonne in France. It found that many common chemicals...

A child could grow up with impaired cognitive functions if their mother was exposed to air pollution during pregnancy, a new study suggests. According to the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain and the Erasmus University Medical Center of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, air...

New research has claimed that pregnant women are an important but largely overlooked group vulnerable to the effects of climate change-related extreme heat. The study was conducted by Dr Sabrina McCormick, of the Milken Institute School of Public Health (MPH) at George Washington University, US...