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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The effect of ambient air pollution on global variations and trends in asthma prevalence is unclear. OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to investigate community-level associations between asthma prevalence data...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedChina's Government Offices Administration of the State Council has announced it will issue guidelines to ban serving shark fin, a traditional delicacy, at official receptions. (4) Final guidelines are expected within...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Cancer may be a stem cell (SC)-based disease involving formation of cancer SCs (CSCs) potentially arising from transformation of normal SCs. Cadmium has been linked to human pancreatic cancer. OBJECTIVE:...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Climate change may affect Plasmodium vivax malaria transmission in a wide region including both subtropical and temperate areas. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to estimate the effects of climatic variables on the...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedViews and opinions expressed in these podcasts are those of the interview subjects and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of EHP or of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences....
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedA former Republican congressman from South Carolina has started an institution to promote conservative approaches to mitigating climate change and achieving energy security for the United States. According to Bob...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAs the fall 2012 semester gets under way, at least 744 U.S. colleges and universities have made their campuses completely smoke free, indoors and out, and nearly three-quarters of those have banned all forms of tobacco...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedExposure to the persistent, bioaccumulative flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) has been linked to developmental health effects, and the compound is scheduled to be phased out of production by December...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Studies emphasize the importance of particulate matter (PM) in the formation of reactive oxygen species and inflammation. We hypothesized that these processes can influence mitochondrial function of the...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins, and > 93% of U.S. adults have detectable levels of urinary BPA. Recent animal studies have suggested...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Phthalates are common plasticizers present in medical-grade plastics and other everyday products. They can also act as endocrine-disrupting chemicals and have been linked to the rise in metabolic disorders....
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1205556R We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the importance of careful interpretation and communication of epidemiological results. We concur with Burstyn et al. that...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1205397 In their letter, Kogevinas and Pearce (2012) suggested that meta-analyses should be more routinely prepared for the evaluations of the International Agency for Research on Cancer...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedSince they were first commercially grown in the mid-1990s, genetically engineered (GE) crops have expanded across the globe, offering farmers the advantages of genetically enhanced resistance to drought, herbicides, and...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Green spaces are reported to improve health status, including beneficial effects on pregnancy outcomes. Despite the suggestions of air pollution-related health benefits of green spaces, there is no available...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Polonium-210 ([.sup.210]Po) concentrations that exceed 1 Bq/L in drinking-water supplies have been reported from four widely separated U.S. states where exposure to it went unnoticed for decades. The...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedA number of studies have associated exposure to particulate matter (PM) with adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight. Much is still unknown, however, about the mechanisms that might induce these outcomes....
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Air pollutants have been associated with childhood asthma and wheeze. Epigenetic regulation of nitric oxide synthase--the gene responsible for nitric oxide production--may be affected by air pollutants and...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedIn fall 2003 wildfires blazed in Southern California, sending pollutant-laden smoke directly into the heavily populated Los Angeles and Orange counties. A new study of birth records from the area shows a decreased...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 120, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Groundwater supplies for drinking water are frequently contaminated with low levels of human enteric virus genomes, yet evidence for waterborne disease transmission is lacking. OBJECTIVES: We related...