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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedGarrison Keillor With 3 billion cell phone users worldwide and more than 260 million in the United States alone--among them 46% of U.S. children aged 8-12, according to Nielsen Mobile figures released 10 September...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR), comprising persons most likely to have been heavily exposed to traumatic events and air pollution related to the World Trade Center attacks of 11 September 2001, includes...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Effects of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster on children's respiratory health have not been definitively established. OBJECTIVE: This report describes respiratory health findings among children who were...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Research on neighborhood effects increasingly includes the influences of the built environment on health and social well-being. OBJECTIVES: In this population-based study in a low-socioeconomic-status...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Several epidemiologic studies have demonstrated relationships between prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and modest cognitive impairments in infancy and early childhood. However, few...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Odors can affect health and quality of life. Industrialized animal agriculture creates odorant compounds that are components of a mixture of agents that could trigger symptoms reported by neighbors of...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedResearch teams around the world are working to tap the energy potential of high-altitude winds, a more abundant and reliable energy source than the ground-level winds upon which conventional turbines rely. In an August...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: We reviewed the sources of lead in the environments of U.S. children, contributions to children's blood lead levels, source elimination and control efforts, and existing federal authorities. Our context is the...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOctober 21-24 October, Tue-Fri. 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. Geneva, Switzerland. Information: 20th EORTC - NCI-AACR Symposium Secretariat, ECCO the European CanCer...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedCrop Biosecurity: Assuring our Global Food Supply M.L. Gullino, J. Fletcher, A. Gamliel, J.P. Stack, eds. New York: Springer, 2008, 148 pp. ISBN: 978-77-5, $74,95 Economics and Management of Climate Change:...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Developing infants may be especially sensitive to hormone disruption from chemicals including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). OBJECTIVE: We investigated...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedHaving already tested his parents' indulgence by adopting snakes as companions, young Ed Wilson pressed his luck even further by raising black widow spiders, which he hand-fed with live insects. By the time he took up...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Because pulmonary circulation is the primary vascular target of inhaled particulate matter (PM), and nitric oxide is a major vasculoprotective agent, in this study we investigated the effect of...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are widely found in the environment and are suspected endocrine disruptors. We previously identified six hydroxylated metabolites of PBDE (OH-PBDEs) in treated mice....
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedConventional wisdom holds that rainy days aid asthmatics by washing away pollen pollutants that trigger attacks. But a new study shows that in some cases just the opposite is true--in a report published in the July 2008...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPerfluorooctanoate (PFOA; also known as perfluorooctanoic acid) and perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), chemicals used in waterproofing fabrics and greaseproofing fast-food containers, among other applications, have been...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Coal burning provides 70% of the energy for China's industry and power, but releases large quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other pollutants. PAHs are reproductive and developmental...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOnce thought to be rare, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have gained increasing public attention as prevalence studies have revealed sharp increases over the past two decades. ASD now represents the second most common...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Although a number of studies have documented the relationship between lung function and traffic-related pollution among children, few have focused on adult lung function or examined community-based...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn 2007, millions of toys were pulled from U.S. shelves due to high levels of lead. Legislation passed 14 August 2008 sharply limits the lead allowed in children's products to 100 ppm, bans the use of phthalates (3 types...