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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedhttp://dx.doi.org/10. 1289/ehp. 1205032 In 1972 David P. Rail, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), determined there was a need for a journal dedicated to research on human...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmericans are widely exposed to phthalates in soft plastic products. The timed-release coatings on certain medicinal products represents another potential source of exposure. In this podcast, host Ashley Ahearn talks to...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Lead exposure in adults is associated with hypertension. Altered prenatal nutrition is associated with subsequent risks of adult hypertension, but little is known about whether prenatal exposure to...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAir pollution from traffic and industrial sources increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially in populations with underlying cardiovascular disease. Environmental interventions to reduce pollution would...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBisphenol A (BPA) is present in many consumer products and is among the world's highest production volume chemicals. Many endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), including BPA, have been shown to activate the pregnane X...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Previous systematic reviews have indicated that pesticide exposure is possibly associated with Parkinson disease (PD). However, considerable heterogeneity has been observed in study results. OBJECTIVE: We...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: On 1 July 2007, smokefree legislation was implemented in England, which made virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces smokefree. OBJECTIVES: We examined trends in and predictors of secondhand...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe recent ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on certain uses of cephalosporin antibiotics in food animals1 has not won the agency much favor. Industry groups blasted the rule for intruding on veterinary...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1990s ethnobotanist PauIn the late 1990s ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox visited the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam, sleuthing for cancer cures in the lush rainforest. He soon stumbled upon troubling facts...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Air pollution exposure increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and is a major global public health concern. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the benefits of reducing personal exposure to urban ait...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHumans are exposed to phthalates through a wide range of sources. Kelley et al. (p. 379) investigated potential exposure through oral ingestion of phthalates used as pharmacologically inactive ingredients (excipients)...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPhilippat et al. (p. 464) investigated die relationships between prenatal exposures to phtha-iatcs and phenols and fetal growth among male newborns in a case--control study on ma I for-maiions of the male genitalia...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe high-production-volume chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is a key component in polycarbonate plastics and is used in a wide variety of consumer products. The U.S. general population is widely exposed to BPA, as...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlthough epidemiologic studies have reported associations between air pollution exposure and adverse health effects, the association between mortality and exposure to ambient oxidants [ozone ([O.sub.3]) and nitrogen...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPositive associations between exposure to chlordane isomers and testicular germ cell tumors have been reported. To examine whether in utero exposure to chlordanes might also be associated with other testicular...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Concerns regarding the health impact of urban air pollution on asthmatic children are pronounced along the U.S.-Mexico border because of rapid population growth near busy border highways and roads....
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Animal studies indicate that some phthalate metabolites may harm female reproductive function. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the associations between exposure to phthalate metabolites and pregnancy loss....
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Although ambient fine particulate matter [(PM.sub.2.5]; particulate matter [less than or equal to] 2.5 urn in aerodynamic diameter) has been linked to adverse human health effects, the chemical constituents...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCommunicy participation in environmental health research has increased substantially since the 1990s after the initiation of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) environmental justice and...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104429R In their letter, Haighton et al. recommend that we review Bradford Hill guidelines for establishing causality. As noted in our article (Sathyanarayana et al. 2011), we did not...