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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Our goal was to evaluate the relationship between cause-specific postneonatal infant mortality and chronic early-life exposure to particulate matter and gaseous air pollutants across the United States....
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: We previously conducted a study to assess whether household exposures to tap water increased an individual's internal dose of trihalomethanes (THMs). Increases in blood THM levels among subjects who showered...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOver the last 20 years, the term "junk science" has gained, increasing use by defendants in toxic tort litigation as a pejorative phrase to discredit health effects data that do not meet some standard for scientific...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedome is where the hearth is," goes an old play on words. But what about the solar panel or the wind turbine? Maybe they could be where the home is, too. That's the view of a growing movement to make energy-efficient homes...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Bisphenol A (BPA) and 4-tertiary-octylphenol (tOP) are industrial chemicals used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins (BPA) and nonionic surfactants (tOP). These products are in...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHundreds of municipalities across the United States have enacted some form of public smoking ban. Now a first-of-its-kind study published in Volume 37, Issue 3 (2007) of the Journal of Drug Education has looked at how...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: In a 1994 Ninth Circuit decision on the remand of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Judge Alex Kosinski wrote that science done for the purpose of litigation should be subject to more stringent...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2006. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-20 167-4, $29.95 The adverse health outcomes associated with lead exposure were known in ancient times, but knowledge of adverse effects associated with high...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Environmental toxicants are allegedly involved in decreasing semen quality in recent decades; however, definitive proof is not yet available. In 1976 an accident exposed residents in Seveso, Italy, to...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous environmental toxicants, for which animal studies demonstrate immunotoxic effects, including thymic atrophy and suppressed immune responses; human...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: There are few studies on associations between children's respiratory heath and air pollution in schools in China. The industrial development and increased traffic may affect the indoor exposure to air...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: In Vietnam, shigellosis/dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera are important enteric diseases. To better understand their epidemiology, we determined temporal trends, seasonal patterns, and climatic factors...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe mission of the Boise, Idaho-based Healthy House Institute (HHI) is to educate homeowners on ways to make and keep their home environments as healthful as possible. Toward this end, the HHI has compiled data in areas...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article originated from a conference that asked "Should scientific work conducted for purposes of advocacy before regulatory agencies or courts be judged by the same standards as science conducted for other...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a toxic fungal metabolite that frequently contaminates cereal crops. DON is toxic to animals, but the effects on humans are poorly understood, in part because exposure estimates are of...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA September 2007 adjustment to the Montreal Protocol called for production and consumption of hydrochlorofulercarbons (HCFCs) to phase out in developing countries by 2013, 10 years ahead of the original Protocol...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe National Toxicology Program (NTP) has for nearly 30 years led the effort to apply thescience of toxicology to the protection of public health. In June 2007 I became the Associate Director of the NTP. I accepted this...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeveral U.S. supermarket chains have teamed up with the EPA and the refrigerant and refrigeration industries in a voluntary program to curb emissions that can exacerbate climate change. The GreenChill Advanced...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAcid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles Driscoll, Christopher Buerkett Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4651-1, $65 Apoptosis...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Some epidemiologic studies have reported compromised cognitive and sensory performance among individuals exposed to low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide ([H.sub.2]S). OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized a...