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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI would like to comment on Hudnell and Shoemaker's response (Hudnell and Shoemaker 2002) to our letter (Swinker and Burke 2002), both published in the March 2002 issue of EHP. In their letter Hudnell and Shoemaker...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe compared the inflammatory and cytotoxic responses caused by household mold and bacteria in human and mouse cell lines. We studied the fungi Aspergillus versicolor, Penicillium spinulosum, and Stachybotrys chartarum...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Vietnamese pilot program on public disclosure of industrial wastewater discharge data concluded in July 2002. The Hanoi-based program monitored effluent releases at 50 factories, trained and developed environmental...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJanuary 2-5 January, Thu-Sun. Pediatrics for Emergency Medicine and Primary Care. Sarasota, Florida. Information: American Medical Seminars, PO Box 6129, Sarasota, FL 34278 USA, 1-866-267-4263, fax: 941-365-7073,...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFour of India's largest chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) manufacturers voluntarily agreed on 2 May 2002 to use cleaner production technologies to help reduce "rogue" CFC emissions--those emitted during manufacturing--as well as...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLevels of chemicals in humans (body burdens) are useful indicators of environmental quality and of community health. Chemical body burdens are easily monitored using breast milk samples collected from first-time mothers...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPolychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent pollutants that are ubiquitous in the food chain, and detectable amounts are in the blood of almost every person in most populations that have been examined. Extensive...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is an extensive and powerful body of American literature that focuses on the relationship of humans with our natural surroundings. We marvel at the natural beauty around us, finding nourishment in what we think of...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Workshop on Environmental Exposures and Cancer was held by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) 25-26 April 2001. An expert panel convened to achieve consensus on a list of important environmental exposures, priority...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSome 62% of pregnant women in Japan are at a higher risk of miscarriage and of giving birth to babies with low birth weights due to environmental tobacco smoke exposure, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDespite being banned in many countries, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolites dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD) continue to be found in fish tissues at...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGlobal positioning system (GPS) technology is used widely for business and leisure activities and offers promise for human time-location studies to evaluate potential exposure to environmental contaminants. In this...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAll people suffer from exposure to unsafe levels of pollution, but men and women may experience substantially different effects. Female sensitivity to pollutants can be heightened by both physiological and socioeconomic...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSpanish-speaking environmental activists and educators have a new online resource for science-based toxicology information: Toxicologia Ambiental: Evaluacion de Riesgos y Restauracion Ambiental, by Carlos E. Pena, Dean...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCapturing children's exposure to pesticides is a complex and difficult task. It's especially difficult in an area where crops are sprayed, because the spray causes a one-time spike in pesticide concentrations at...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEver since humans first nursed embers into flames with a pile of sticks, biomass fuels have played a key part in our survival. Biofuels delivered light, heat, and a means to cook food that was otherwise eaten raw. But...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen young women are diagnosed with cancer and undergo radiation or chemotherapy to save their lives, they must contend with the devastating knowledge that the anticancer therapy could leave them infertile. Now...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper, we present national maps of relative rates of mortality associated with short-term exposure to particulate matter < 10 [micro]m in aerodynamic diameter (P[M.sub.10]). We report results for 88 of the...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedConcern has been expressed in recent years about worsening male reproductive health, possibly mediated by increasing exposures to environmental endocrine-disrupting agents. Trends suggested large increases in...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this study I examined the effect of cooking smoke on the reported prevalence of asthma among elderly men and women ([greater than or equal to] 60 years old). The analysis is based on 38,595 elderly persons included...