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Health and the Environment in North Carolina

H. Kim Lyerly and David B. Peden
North Carolina Medical Journal September 2018, 79 (5) 302-305; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.79.5.302
H. Kim Lyerly
director, Environmental Health Scholars Program; George Barth Geller Professor of Cancer Research; professor, Departments of Surgery, Immunology, and Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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David B. Peden
Andrews professor of pediatrics, senior associate dean for Translational Resarch, director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, The School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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