Campion Blog
Evidence that Wildfire Smoke Exposure is Associated with an Increase in Preterm Labor by Phyllis Leppert, MD, PhD
September 13th 2021
Recently a research article published by Stanford University scientist made headline in the national press. The researchers looked at data from three...
The United States Maternal Mortality Rate is the Worst Rate among Developed Countries. This is a Scandal. By Phyllis C. Leppert
August 14th 2021
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that the US Maternal Mortality Rate in 2019 (the latest statistics available) was 20.1 deaths...
Air Pollution and Climate Change are very much related. By Phyllis C. Leppert, MD, PhD
July 18th 2021
Now, everyone is concerned about the wild fires in the western part of the United States, the very high temperatures in Canada, and the devasting flo...
More information about how air pollution harms reproduction
May 18th 2021
We have begun the work of producing three educational videos on how air pollution harms reproduction. It is an effort that involves many scientists wi...
Vitamin D and Green Tea for Fibroids
April 15th 2021
Uterine fibroids are exceedingly common among women world-wide causing as we all know, bleeding and pain and may cause infertility or pregnancy compli...
Congratulations: Campion Fund Awardees Ru-pin Alicia Chi and Christine E. Crute
March 10th 2021
Ru-pin Alicia Chi, a post-doctoral researcher at NIEHS in the Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, was given the Campion Fund Award for...
Cell ablation mouse model to study endocrine disrupting chemicals on hypospadias development
February 25th 2021
Each year over 20,000 boys are born with hypospadias in the United States (1). Hypospadias is a malformation of the penis where the urethra does not e...
Annual Campaign
January 24th 2021
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New Insights into the transition from primordial to primary follicle: eight genes are sufficient for developing mouse oocyte-like cells from mouse stem cells
December 22nd 2020
Nobuhiko Hamazaki, Katsukiko Hayashi and colleagues at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan (1) have recently published work describing a number of det...
Reproductive Health, Covid-19, Air Pollution and Climate Change: A Call to Action
November 23rd 2020
Respiration is essential to all living organisms on earth. This process allows humans to take in oxygen and to expel carbon dioxide, a product of our...