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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUnpublished new findings by neuroscientists from Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College reveal that prenatal exposure to low lead concentrations may affect brain cell differentiation. In studies presented at the 2003...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBangladesh is a land of extremes. Home to an estimated 140-plus million people, it is among the most overpopulated and impoverished countries in the world. Its climate produces flooding in the monsoon season and severe...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLess-affluent nations may be bearing the brunt as developed nations including the United States crack down on mercury pollution. India's Centre for Science and Environment reports that India--already known to have some...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObesity and Asthma Risk in School-Age Children Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Islam T, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Gilliland SS, Avol E, Peters JM. 2003. Obesity and the risk of newly diagnosed asthma in school-age children....
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedConcern about apparent increases in the prevalence of hypospadias--a congenital male reproductivetract abnormality--in the 1960s to 1980s and the possible connection to increasing exposures to endocrine-disrupting...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs the regulatory policy leader of CropLife America, the national trade association representing the crop protection industry, I would like to respond to the letter from Sass and Needleman, which criticizes human testing...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedParental smoking at home has long been known to increase children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). It is also recognized that adults' smoking rates vary by ethnicity, race, and immigrant status. But...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSass and Needleman question the scientific value of data from human studies sponsored by the product's manufacturer. They also state that studies conducted by third parties on human subjects should not be considered....
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe fact that poverty and public health are related is widely understood, but the relationship is often difficult to quantify. Recognizing this, researchers, activists, and policy makers are beginning to combine "poverty...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInterdisciplinary research designed to inform international policy decisions on health, economic, and environmental ills got a boost last fall with the September 2003 award of the first-ever Health, Environment, and...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMore than 600 delegates at the November 2003 Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety agreed to implement internationally binding measures to reduce the incidence of accidental poisonings by household and agricultural...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDevelopmental exposure to chlorpyrifos (CPF) alters the function of a wide variety of neural systems. In the present study we evaluated the effects in adulthood of CPF exposure of rats during different developmental...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe CDC recently announced funding to establish a second Center for Public Health Law at the University of Louisville. The new center will work collaboratively with the Georgetown University/Johns Hopkins Center for...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMankind's actions are noticeably harming groundwater resources worldwide, according to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Across the globe, states Groundwater and Its Susceptibility to...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAdvice for a Young Investigator Santiago Ramon y Cajal; tr. by N Swanson, L.W. Swanson Cambridge, MA:Bradford Books, 2004. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-262-68150-1, $18.96 Arctic Ecological Research from Microwave Satellite...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Baltimore Memory Study is a cohort study of the multilevel determinants of cognitive decline in 50-70-year-old randomly selected residents of specific city neighborhoods. Prior studies have demonstrated that...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedReaders of the February Spheres of Influence article ("Does Secrecy Equal Security? Limiting Access to Environmental Information," EHP 112:A104-A107 (2004)] may have inferred that at the time Christopher Gozdor...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCentral America has always been prone to earthquakes and hurricanes, but when Hurricane Mitch struck in October 1998, the countries of the region were paralyzed by a scale of destruction that seemed, to many,...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites investigators to form strategic partnerships that will bring together the multidisciplinary expertise and resources needed to determine how the information derived from...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMultiple studies have described the widespread presence of pesticides in American residences, while another body of research indicates that pesticides used in agriculture find their way into farmworkers' homes. Exposure...