Will biomonitoring prevent disease?
Biomonitoring is an important tool to better understand the relationship between environmental exposures and trends in disease. We know that rates of diseases and illnesses such as cancer, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, birth defects, developmental disabilities, endometriosis, infertility, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s Disease are rising, and mounting evidence links both incidence and severity of these diseases to environmental contaminants. In fact, an estimated 20 million of America’s children suffer from at least one chronic health problem.
