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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedJuly 12-17 July, Sat-Thu. Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology: From Single Cells to the Environment. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Information: Lynn Louise Kindle, Gordon Research...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: There is ample epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution [aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 µm ([PM.sub.2.5]), which derives primarily from combustion...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common gynecologic disease characterized by the ectopic growth of endometrial tissue. In industrialized countries, it affects approximately 10% of women of reproductive age. Its etiology is...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedConsider the floods, plagues, famines, and other calamities we can expect from climate change, and an apocalyptic prophecy might come to mind, perhaps rightfully so. An expert panel convened to assess risks from climate...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedA study of the sediment left behind by flooding from Hurricane Ike in September 2008 shows that although levels of most of the toxic compounds assayed are low, some concerns remain about elevated arsenic levels. The...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: This study is a cost-benefit analysis that quantifies the social and economic benefits to household lead paint hazard control compared with the investments needed to minimize exposure to these hazards....
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The upward trend in industrial nations in die incidence of male genitourinary (GU) conditions may be attributed to increased exposure to endocrine disruptors. Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a brominated flame...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is considered a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It does not exist in nature but has been used widely since World War II. It is present in...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedMarine litter poses complex environmental, economic, health, and aesthetic problems in water bodies around the world. In the April 2009 report Marine Litter: A Global Challenge, UNEP outlines methods to reduce this waste...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Following a recent report of lead in certain commercial vitamin products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted a nationwide survey to determine the Pb content in 324 multivitamin/mineral...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedOver the years, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) has emerged as one of the leading journals in the environmental health sciences. It can be argued that one reason for EHPs standing in the field of environmental...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Potassium dichromate [Cr(VI)] is a widespread environmental toxicant responsible for increased risk of several human diseases. Cr(VI) exposure leads to activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs),...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) affects 71 million American adults and remains the leading cause of death in the United States and Europe. Despite studies that suggest that the development of CVD may be linked...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10.1289/ehp. 12891 Toxicity testing and assessment sit on the cusp of a transformational change brought about by the rapid emergence of tools and capabilities in molecular biology and computational and...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The vertebrate aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that regulates cellular responses to environmental polycyclic and halogenated compounds. The naive receptor is...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Fetal exposure to environmental estrogens may contribute to hypofertility and/or to testicular germ cell cancer. However, many of these xenoestrogens have only a weak affinity for the classical estrogen...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn estimated 780,000 U.S. women continue smoking throughout pregnancy each year despite warnings about the elevated risk of birth defects in the children of female smokers. A new mouse study provides experimental...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-Revieweddoi: 10.1289/ehp.0900669 I commend Environment Health Perspectives for publishing the work of Nweke and Sanders (2009); this significant contribution brought to light interesting aspects of environmental health hazards...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Diarylheptanoids isolated from Curcuma comosa Roxb. have been recently identified as phytoestrogens. However, the mechanism underlying their actions has not yet been identified. OBJECTIVES: We characterized...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 117, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn increase in wildfire activity is one of several effects predicted to arise in some areas as a result of climate change. Two new studies suggest, however, that wildfires are more complex--and their future prevalence...