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The study by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health is the first to analyse the effects of exposure to airborne metals in this very young population and the findings could have important public health implications.

Santelli, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

The report was commissioned by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Children's Health Fund.

Nonhospital workers and bloodborne pathogens In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health assessed the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens among nonhospital-based registered nurses (RNs), and found that nearly one out of 10 of the more than 1,100 nurse participants reported at least one needlestick injury in the previous 12 months.

When they do have mental health issues, they tend not to get the help they need," says Ilan Meyer, an associate professor at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and the study's lead author.

Footage for the DVD was collected over several visits to New Orleans in 2005 and 2006 by Lopez and Ginger Chew, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Available from: AMDD, Heilbrunn Department for Population and Family Health Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University 60 Haven Avenue B-3 New York NY 10032, USA Fax: +1-212-544-1933 E-mail: peb2001@columbia.

Three other grants issued went to Catholic Relief Services, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health to fund treatment and mother-to-child transmission prevention programs.