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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOn 28 February 2001 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the EPA in a challenge brought against the agency by transport and business groups. The parties claimed the agency was misinterpreting the Clean Air Act in...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDi(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), a peroxisome proliferator, has been listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and by the National Toxicology Program as a possible or reasonably anticipated human...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBabies at Risk Decades after Mothers Exposed Fetal lead exposure is associated with delayed embryonic development of several organ systems and cognitive deficiencies in early childhood. Infants and children are more...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA New Clue to Its Toxicity Like Houdini, the mysterious dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida hasn't been inclined to surrender the secrets of how it works. But with enough creative poking and prodding, something was...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIceland has launched a groundbreaking plan to convert the country to nitrogen-based renewable fuels. A leader in alternative energy with 90% of its buildings heated geothermally, Iceland hopes to end its dependence on...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAcute respiratory infections (ARI) are the leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and have been causally linked with exposure to pollutants from domestic biomass fuels in developing countries. We used longitudinal...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed(1930-2001) Cesare Maltoni, a world-renowned leader in the research of the hazards of industrial carcinogens in the workplace, died on 22 January 2001 at the age of 70. Maltoni's contributions to research and the...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this program announcement is to encourage grant applications for research to elucidate the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, genetics, treatment, and optimal means of service delivery in relation to...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, researchers have looked for areas where indigenous knowledge, also called local or traditional knowledge, can meet modern science for better environmental health. A 1999 conference titled "Science for...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe compared 121 replicate rodent carcinogenicity assays from the two parts (National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program and literature) of the Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) to estimate the reliability...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedUniversity of Maine chemists have developed a promising method for reducing pesticides in water. Their process combines natural light and the mineral zeolite to accelerate the breakdown of three pesticides--malathion,...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn 1994, the French National Public Health Network reported significant mercury exposure of native Amerindians in French Guiana. In 1997, a study was conducted in the Wayana community to quantify the dietary intake and...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAgricultural Safety Keith E. Barenklau Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 2001, 160 pp. ISBN: 1-56670-487-1, $89.95 Better Environmental Policy Studies: How to Design and Conduct More Effective Analyses Lawrence...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFerries Keep Watch on Coastal Water Researchers in North Carolina are developing a new approach to understanding the behavior of a critical waterway, the Pamlico Sound. Hans Paerl, Kenan Professor of Marine and...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOn 21 March 2001 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its pioneering National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, unveiling the first available benchmarks for a few of the...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTo confirm that arsenic (As) induces oxidative DNA damage in phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated and unstimulated human lymphocytes, we used the alkaline comet assay combined with specific enzyme...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe examined the pharmacologic activity of a putative toxin (pPfTx) produced by Pfiesteria piscicida by characterizing the signaling pathways that induce the c-fos luciferase construct in [GH.sub.4][C.sub.1] rat...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThere are few data on pesticide exposures of migrant Latino farmworker children, and access to this vulnerable population is often difficult. In this paper we describe a community-based approach to implement culturally...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this program announcement (PA) is to encourage research that bridges the areas of inorganic chemistry and medicine. The mechanisms by which organisms control transition metal ions and the roles of these...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn the desert Southwest, communities are slaking their thirst for knowledge with an outreach program that is overflowing with environmental health information. The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC)...