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SAB Member on the Radio
Posted 9/19/2002

Dr. Scott T. Weiss, a member of The Science Advisory Board who is profiled in this week’s Member Spotlight http://www.scienceboard.net/community/memberSpotlight.asp?spotid=25 was interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program on September 18, 2002.   Dr. Weiss is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.  He commented about a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that indicates children's exposure to dirt, dust and bacteria actually helps their immune systems develop more effectively. The idea is called the "hygiene hypothesis”.  To listen to the interview, point your browser to http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=150240.  The article, “Environmental Exposure to Endotoxin and Its Relation to Asthma” (Volume 347:869-877, September 19, 2002 Number 12) can be accessed at http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/347/12/869.
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