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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedEpidemiologic studies since the early 1990s have suggested that exposure to various classes of pesticides increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD). Animal studies have backed up that link, revealing how...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Legislation at state, federal, and international levels is requiring rapid evaluation of the toxicity of numerous chemicals. Whole-animal toxicologic studies cannot yield the necessary throughput in a...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) increases offspring aggression and diminishes differences in sexually dimorphic behaviors in rodents. OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between prenatal BPA...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn the 1 Nov 2009 issue of Analytical Chemistry, Zakir Hossain and colleagues describe a new biosensor they have developed that works more quickly and cheaply than conventional methods to detect small amounts of...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn work published online 3 Nov 2009 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, sons of women who reported smoking heavily in pregnancy were nearly twice as likely as sons of nonsmokers to exhibit restlessness...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States; however, minimal information is available on their cancer risks from exposures to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and how these risks...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Breast cancer has recently been linked to cadmium exposure. Although not uniformly supported, it is hypothesized that cadmium acts as a metalloestrogenic carcinogen via the estrogen receptor (ER). Thus, we...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe correspondence section is a public forum and, as such, is not peer-reviewed. EHP is not responsible for the accuracy, currency, or reliability of personal opinion expressed herein; it is the sole responsibility of...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn a study of 150 male cell phone users, Tolga Atay and colleagues found that wearing a belt-mounted phone was associated with decreased bone density in the pelvic iliac wing closest to the phone--perhaps, they suggest,...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Developmental exposure to environmental estrogens is associated with adverse consequences later in life. Exposure to genistin (GIN), the glycosylated form of the phytoestrogen genistein (GEN) found in soy...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBy David J. Hess Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2009. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-51232-9, $25 The title of this book clearly echoes the well-known exhortation of microbiologist Rene Dubos: "Think global, act local." We...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA review in the Nov 2009 issue of Chest indicates acetaminophen use may be associated with as much as a 75% increased risk of developing asthma and wheeze in adults and a 60% increase in children. Senior author J. Mark...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Studies have shown associations between air pollution or traffic exposure and adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight. However, very few studies have examined the effect of traffic emissions on...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is carcinogenic to humans. Methylated metabolites of arsenic (As) found in the urine could serve as potential tools for screening and early detection of cancer in populations exposed...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedMojib Latif probably didn't anticipate the public reaction his research would attract last year. Writing in the 1 May 2008 issue of Nature, he and his colleagues from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and the Max...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: After several decades of commercial use, the flame-retardant chemicals polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their metabolites are pervasive environmental contaminants and are detected in the human...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedWe thank Guzzi et al. for their interest in our study on the association of environmental cadmium exposure and periodontal disease (Arora et al. 2009). There are a number of environmental sources of Cd in the U.S....
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: As an observational science, epidemiology is regarded by some researchers as inherently flawed and open to false results. In a recent paper, Boffetta et al. [Boffetta P. McLaughlin JK, LaVecchia C, Tarone...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Although industrial sectors involving semiconductors; memory and storage technologies; display, optical, and photonic technologies; energy; biotechnology; and health care produce the most products that...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe melting of glacial ice that formed in the middle of the twentieth century may be a source of a cocktail of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic substances that can threaten human health and the environment, according...