environmental medicine

American  

noun

1. the branch of medicine dealing with the effects of the environment on human health, especiallythe physical, mental, and emotional responses to environmental factors.

2. the study of the causes of disease in an environmental context, and the development of methods of detection, control, and prevention of environmentally related disease.

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Example Sentences

"This study shows how our environmental exposures shaped our evolution," said Professor Manish Arora, Professor and Vice Chairman of Environmental Medicine.

From Science Daily

"From the perspective of inter-species competition, the observation that toxic exposures can offer an overall survival advantage offers a fresh paradigm for environmental medicine to examine the evolutionary roots of disorders linked to environmental exposures."

From Science Daily

As it stands, undocumented immigrants face financial, legal and linguistic barriers to seeking healthcare, said Dr. Sheiphali Gandhi, a UC San Francisco assistant professor of occupational and environmental medicine.

From Los Angeles Times

"We can see a clear link between long-term use -- five years or more -- of these drugs and reduced risk of dementia in older age," says Mozhu Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and one of the lead authors of the paper.

From Science Daily

"Previous studies have focused on individual drugs and specific patient groups but in this study, we take a broader approach," says Alexandra Wennberg, affiliated researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine and the other lead author of the paper.

From Science Daily