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在过去的十多年里,耗资10亿美元,美国一项旨在研究环境对儿童健康影响的项目仍在试图找寻新出路。批评者们指责它早已误入歧途,而支持者们则确信它仍然在轨。对流行病学家Maureen Durkin来说,梦想中的项目终结在2012年的夏天。在美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市西郊一套租用的办公室里,Durkin和她的15名员工、耗费了7年时间、花费了1600万美元,正预备在瓦克夏县招募1250名孕妇,这些即将出生的婴儿将成为后续10万名婴儿的一部分,共同参与有史以来最大规模、最长期的美国儿童健康研究项目。但与预期相反的是,仅仅在Durkin招募了200名女性的试点阶段后,美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)告知她,
Over the past decade or so, a project costing $ 1 billion and a U.S.-led study aimed at studying the impact of the environment on children’s health is still trying to find a new way forward. Critics have accused it of long gone astray, and supporters are convinced it is still on track. For the epidemiologist Maureen Durkin, the dream project ends in the summer of 2012. In a rented office in the western suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, Durkin and her 15-year-long workforce spent $ 16 million and were hiring 1250 pregnant women in Waukesha County, all about to be born Of the infants will be part of the next 100,000 infants to participate in the largest and longest-term U.S. children’s health research project ever. But contrary to expectations, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) informed her only after the pilot phase of Durkin’s recruitment of 200 women,