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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEpidemiologic studies have found differences between urban and rural women in breast cancer incidence and mortality, both generally being higher in urban areas. Now a British study suggests that women who live or work in...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCohort data during the 1980s linked blood lead levels of at least 10 μg/dL with low cognitive test scores in children, prompting the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to redefine the action level...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Chronic exposure to excess arsenic in drinking water has been strongly associated with increased risks of multiple cancers, diabetes, heart disease, and reproductive and developmental problems in humans. We...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 1 January 2008, Minnesota became the first state to ban mercury from cosmetics such as mascara, eyeliner, and skin-lightening creams. Current federal regulations allow up to 65 ppm mercury to be used in cosmetics as a...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10.1289/chp. 10733 The data in the study by Eltiti et al. (2007) do not support their conclusion that The present data, along with current scientific evidence, leads to the conclusion that short-term rf-emf...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMalaria, carried by Anopheles mosquitoes, infects up to 500 million people each year and kills 1 million, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. Dengue fever, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, is now...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedXanthohumol, a flavonoid compound found in the hop plant, is a powerful antioxidant that can reduce the activity of cancer-causing cytochrome P450 enzymes. Earlier studies have found that xanthohumol can kill cultured...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10,1289/ehp.10771 Eltiti et al. (2007) reported elevated levels of arousal when electromagnetic-hypersensitive subjects were exposed to a UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) mobile phone base station...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 1 January 2008, the German cities of Berlin, Cologne, and Hanover witnessed the rollout of a new program to reduce air pollution in city centers. In those cities, and in 17 more to be added during the year, cars are...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed25 Years of P53 Research Wiman,klas G.,Hainaut, Pierre, eds. New York: Springer, 2008. 448pp. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6564-4, $69.95 Advances in Molecular Toxicology, 2 James C.Fishhein Burlington, MA: Elsevier, 2008,...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 11 December 2007, the Environmental Working Group released the results of a survey of occupational health among nurses. More than 1,500 U.S. nurses participated in the online survey, which assessed workplace exposures...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLead exposure is linked to cognitive deficits, cardiovascular disease risk, and behavioral problems, outcomes that potentially follow dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In animal studies,...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 29-30 November 2007, just days before the United Nations Climate Change Conference began in Bali and Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change, the U.S....
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedExposure to toxic levels of arsenic is a serious problem in many Asian countries, notably Bangladesh and India, where exposure to inorganic arsenic through naturally contaminated groundwater is widespread and often...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBreastfeeding is known to be protective of newborn health, for example by lowering infant mortality and risk of infectious diseases. But breastfeeding is on the decline in some locales, especially in developing...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a study published online 29 November 2007 ahead of print in Endocrinology, researchers at the University of California, Davis, report that the commonly used antibacterial chemical triclocarban (TCC) acts as an...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10.1289lehp. 10703 Miranda et al. (2007) in the August issue and Jusko et al. (2008) in the present issue of Environmental Health Perspectives provide additional evidence of adverse health effects in children at...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedor many U.S. residents, 2007 was a year of heightened awareness of some of the problems of global trade. Extensive recalls of melamine-tainted pet food in the spring followed by even larger toy recalls in the summer and...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10.1289/ehp. 10733R Three letters have questioned the validity of the conclusions drawn in our recent article on the short-term effects of GSM (global system for mobile communication) and UMTS (universal mobile...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: We critically evaluated the etiologic role of inorganic arsenic in human prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES: We assessed data from relevant epidemiologic studies concerning environmental inorganic arsenic...