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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedYou think waiting for the cable guy is bad? Some families must wait more than a year for a lead abatement team to remove or contain the lead that is poisoning their children, reports a group led by Kristina M. Zierold of...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Nearly all China's rural residents and a shrinking fraction of urban residents use solid fuels (biomass and coal) for household cooking and/or heating. Consequently, global meta-analyses of epidemiologic...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents (6-12% affected). Treatment with methylphenidate (MPH) in the United States...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBetween 1998 and 2004, the number of produce-related disease outbreaks in the United States doubled, and outbreaks in the past six months have raised awareness more than ever. Now the FDA has called on industry to...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: People in modern societies spend more than 90% of their time indoors. Hence, indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has a significant impact on public health. In this article we describe health risks associated...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe prevalence of obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes has increased considerably in the past few decades. Many plausible contributing factors have been identified for this increase, among them low testosterone...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe issue of mold contamination has drawn the national and international spotlight on the heels of publicity about prominent situations, such as a hotly contended link between mold and severe illness--and one death--in...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIt is readily understandable that Dutton of the International Nickel Company (INCO) would like to separate the nickel emissions from the 381-m INCO smelter stack from the highly statistically significant Ni-associated...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThis is the report of the first workshop on Incorporating In Vitro Alternative Methods for Developmental Neurotoxicity (DNT) Testing into International Hazard and Risk Assessment Strategies, held in Ispra, Italy, on...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedClimate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren Joseph F.C. DiMento, Pamela M. Doughman, eds. Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2007. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-262-04241-X, $60 Congenital Diseases and the...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBy harnessing bacteria that "breathe" uranium the way animals breathe oxygen, Florida State University microbiologist Joel Kostka is working to solidify liquid uranium waste under a 243-acre site adjacent to Oak Ridge...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: A groundwater-associated outbreak affected approximately 1,450 residents and visitors of South Bass Island, Ohio, between July and September 2004. OBJECTIVES: To examine the microbiological quality of...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The expected ratio of male to female births is generally believed to be 1.05, also described as the male proportion of 0.515. OBJECTIVES: We describe trends in sex ratio at birth and in fetal deaths in the...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIncreasingly, policymakers in Europe and around the world are realizing the importance of healthy indoor environments for public health. Certain member states of the European Union (EU) have already achieved successes in...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Millions of people in Bangladesh are at risk of chronic arsenic toxicity from drinking contaminated groundwater, but little is known about diet as an additional source of As exposure. METHODS: We employed a...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn the May 2007 issue of EHP, we announced that we would cease publication of the Mini-Monograph series this year, instead publishing more Review articles on topics that might once have been covered by Mini-Monographs....
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn February 2007 Congress earmarked $69 million for the National Children's Study. These funds will expand the study by 15 to 20 new study centers and will allow the 7 existing centers to begin recruitment. The study,...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Phthalates impair rodent testicular function and have been associated with antiandrogenic effects in humans, including decreased testosterone levels. Low testosterone in adult human males has been associated...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWith homeowners and volunteers--not remediation specialists--performing much of the cleanup and rebuilding along the Gulf Coast following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there's been a greater need for reliable information...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAmong the more insidious aspects of cancer is its capacity for escaping the anticancer defenses of the host. New research suggests that some estrogens may further reinforce this evasion of host immunity, even as those...