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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAcute arsenic exposure can cause severe heartbeat abnormalities, and chronic exposure has been linked to coronary disease and cancer. Now researchers from Inner Mongolia, China, and the United States have begun to...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBaverstock and Williams (2006) rightly recommended international long-term studies of all potential health effects among the populations exposed to Chernobyl fallout. In the meanwhile, data on post-Chernobyl health...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) compounds has been used in residential outdoor wood structures and public playgrounds. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conducted a...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: In 2003, residents of the District of Columbia (DC) experienced an abrupt rise in lead levels in drinking water, which followed a change in water-disinfection treatment in 2001 and which was attributed to...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe are pleased to respond to Eggleston because this offers us the opportunity to respond to some of the criticisms that have been formulated since we originally proposed the pool chlorine hypothesis (Bernard et al....
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWith the speed of industrialization in today's global community, the costs of disparities in environmental health and risk assessment can be dangerously high in developing countries without broad, stable regulatory and...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAdvances in Data Analysis Reinhold Decker, Hans-Joachim Lenz, eds. New York:Springer, 2007. 687 pp. ISBN: 3-540-70980-0, $169 Agricultural Water Management Laura Holliday, ed. Washington, DC:National...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOver the past decade, up to 170 species of frogs have become extinct due to the spread of Chytrid fungus, which affects amphibian respiratory and nervous systems. Close to 2,000 other species are threatened. In February...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe cause of a childhood leukemia cluster in Fallon, Nevada (population 8,000) has mystified investigators since it was first discovered in 2000. Sixteen children have been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia and...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCumulative risk refers to the combined threats from exposure via all relevant routes to multiple stressors including biological, chemical, physical, and psychosocial entities. Cumulative risk assessment is a tool for...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Since 1997, Fallon, Nevada, has experienced a cluster of childhood leukemia that has been declared "one of the most unique clusters of childhood cancer ever reported." Multiple environmental studies have...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Several studies have examined the effect of particulate pollution (PM) on survival in general populations, but less is known about susceptible groups. Moreover, previous cohort studies have been...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The State of California maintains a comprehensive Pesticide Use Reporting Database (CPUR). The California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) maps all crops in agricultural counties in California about once...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn a study notable for its large sample size and long duration, researchers from the New England Research Institutes report a substantial populationwide decline in testosterone levels over the past 20 years. The report...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNussbaum makes three points, namely that on the basis of the "source term" for the Chernobyl accident population, doses are underestimated by a factor up to 26, that Chernobyl dose estimates ignore exposure to alpha...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMany studies have shown that particulate matter (PM) poses health risks, yet the attributes of PM that cause these effects remain uncertain. To address some of those critical nuances, especially the short-term effects of...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCONTEXT: There is little evidence linking adverse reproductive effects to exposure to specific pesticides during pregnancy. CASE PRESENTATION: In February 2005, three infants with congenital anomalies were identified...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Ground corncob animal bedding and corn food products contain substances that disrupt endocrine function in rats. The disruptors were identified as isomeric mixtures of tetra-hydrofurandiols (THF-diols;...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Many studies have shown that airborne particles are associated with increased risk of death, but attention has more recently focused on the differential toxicity of particles from different sources....
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAt its most basic level, a polymer is a molecule consisting of a long, repeating chain of smaller monomers typically four to ten atoms in size. Polymers can be straight chains of regular repeating monomers, chains of...