By: Dr. David M. Haas and Melissa Perry, ScD Over 18% of the babies born in Puerto Rico in 2011 were preterm, increasing life-long risks for multiple adverse developmental, reproductive, and chronic disease outcomes. In that same year, an NIH-funded…
HHRA's flagship project The Heartland Study was featured in a new blog on the Indiana University School of Medicine's website this week. IU is one of our hospital partners that is recruiting moms-to-be into this clinical research that will measure…
The organophosphate (OP) insecticide chlorpyrifos (Lorsban) has been one of the most heavily used soil insecticides in the Heartland for decades. Farmers use it to prevent worm larvae from attacking roots, and it remains a common residue in many fruits…
There seemed to be too many sick babies in the hospital. That’s what Dr. Paul Winchester observed when he started working as the director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Franciscan Health in Indianapolis in 2001. Winchester had…
Once in a while two data points are arrayed in a graph, setting off the bright light of insight. A good example appeared in “The Morning,” David Leonhart’s daily New York Times online synopsis of the news of the day.…
Reporter Emily Unglesbee with DTN/Progressive Farmer has done solid reporting for years now on the trials and tribulations of dicamba herbicide and the XtendiMax GMO soybean and cotton seeds it has been applied on since 2016. Dicamba is one of…
By: Michelle Perro, MD During the past several decades, I have observed rapid escalation in rates of chronic disease in my patients, as well as a host of neurocognitive and neurobehavioral disorders among the children I care for. My search…
Welcome to the Heartland Health Reliance Alliance (HHRA). This NGO was started by the scientists and clinicians who designed, and are carrying out The Heartland Study (HS). The Heartland Study is a complex, large-scale, long-term public health research project. Its…
Pregnant women in parts of the Midwest can now enroll in our flagship project The Heartland Study to help us understand if rising herbicide exposure is impacting the health of moms and babies. Moms-to-be can currently enroll at Franciscan Health…