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| On the Cover | In an age when pressing problems such as climate change, drought, and food shortages demand ever more ingenious solutions, the yuck factor—an instinctive repugnance toward unfamiliar technology—can put the brakes on innovation even as it sparks healthy debate. The Focus article (p. A524) describes how the yuck factor can influence environmental and public health policy. image credit: Joseph Tart/EHPPurchase This Issue | |
Perspectives
Correspondence
p. A 516
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Environews
Forum
p. A 520
Focus
p. A 524
Spheres of Influence
p. A 528
Science Selections
p. A 532
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Reviews
INFECTIOUS DISEASE | Climate Variability, Social and Environmental Factors, and
Ross River Virus Transmission: Research Development and Future Research Needs
Shilu Tong, Pat Dale, Neville Nicholls, John S. Mackenzie, Rodney Wolff, and Anthony J. McMichael
1591 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
POPULATION HEALTH | Comparative Analysis of State Fish Consumption Advisories Targeting Sensitive Populations
Alison C. Scherer, Ami Tsuchiya, Lisa R. Younglove, Thomas M. Burbacher, and Elaine M. Faustman
1598 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
Research
NANOTECHNOLOGY | Acute Toxicity and Prothrombotic Effects of Quantum Dots:
Impact of Surface Charge
Jorina Geys, Abderrahim Nemmar, Erik Verbeken, Erik Smolders,
Monica Ratoi, Marc F. Hoylaerts, Benoit Nemery, and Peter H.M. Hoet
1607 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
AGING | Mortality in the Medicare Population and Chronic Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution in Urban Centers (2000–2005)
Scott L. Zeger, Francesca Dominici, Aidan McDermott, and Jonathan M. Samet
1614 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
RISK ASSESSMENT | Cadmium-Related Mortality and Long-Term Secular Trends in the Cadmium Body Burden of an Environmentally Exposed Population
Tim S. Nawrot,
Etienne Van Hecke, Lutgarde Thijs, Tom Richart, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Yu Jin, Jaco Vangronsveld,
Harry A. Roels, and Jan A. Staessen
1620 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
EXPOSURE SCIENCE | Population Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling for the Human Lactational Transfer of PCB-153 with Consideration of Worldwide Human Biomonitoring Results
Laurel E. Redding, Michael D. Sohn, Thomas E. McKone, Jein-Wen Chen,
Shu-Li Wang, Dennis P. H. Hsieh, and Raymond S.H. Yang
Also see Science Selections, p. A532
1629 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM | Hormone Disruption by PBDEs in Adult Male Sport Fish Consumers
Mary E. Turyk, Victoria W. Persky, Pamela Imm, Lynda Knobeloch, Robert Chatterton Jr., and
Henry A. Anderson
Also see Science Selections, p. A532
1635 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
OBESITY | Bisphenol A at Environmentally Relevant Doses Inhibits Adiponectin Release
from Human Adipose Tissue Explants and Adipocytes
Eric R. Hugo, Terry D. Brandebourg, Jessica G. Woo, Jean Loftus, J. Wesley Alexander, and Nira Ben-Jonathan
Also see Science Selections, p. A533
1642 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
GENE EXPRESSION | G-Protein–Coupled Receptor 30 and Estrogen Receptor-a Are Involved
in the Proliferative Effects Induced by Atrazine in Ovarian Cancer Cells
Lidia Albanito, Rosamaria Lappano, Antonio Madeo, Adele Chimento, Eric R. Prossnitz, Anna Rita Cappello, Vincenza Dolce, Sergio Abonante, Vincenzo Pezzi, and Marcello Maggiolini
1648 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
BIOMONITORS | Speciation of Arsenic in Exfoliated Urinary Bladder Epithelial Cells from Individuals Exposed to Arsenic in Drinking Water
Araceli Hernández-Zavala, Olga L. Valenzuela, Tomás˘ Matous˘ek, Zuzana Drobná, Jir˘í De˘dina, Gonzalo G. García-Vargas, David J. Thomas,
Luz M. Del Razo, and Miroslav St´yblo
1656 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
RISK ASSESSMENT | Respiratory Cancer and Inhaled Inorganic Arsenic in Copper Smelters Workers: A Linear Relationship with Cumulative Exposure that Increases with Concentration
Jay H. Lubin, Lee E. Moore, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., and Kenneth P. Cantor
1661 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | Endothelial Dysfunction: Associations with Exposure to Ambient Fine Particles in Diabetic Individuals
Alexandra Schneider, Lucas Neas, Margaret C. Herbst,
Martin Case, Ronald W. Williams, Wayne Cascio, Alan Hinderliter, Fernando Holguin, John B. Buse,
Kathleen Dungan, Maya Styner, Annette Peters, and Robert B. Devlin
1666 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
CANCER | Recent Mortality from Pleural Mesothelioma, Historical Patterns of Asbestos Use, and Adoption of Bans: A Global Assessment
Kunihito Nishikawa, Ken Takahashi,
Antti Karjalainen, Chi-Pang Wen, Sugio Furuya, Tsutomu Hoshuyama, Miwako Todoroki,
Yoshifumi Kiyomoto, Donald Wilson, Toshiaki Higashi, Megu Ohtaki, Guowei Pan, and Gregory Wagner
1675 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
EXPOSURE SCIENCE | Changes in Pest Infestation Levels, Self-Reported Pesticide Use, and Permethrin Exposure during Pregnancy after the 2000–2001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Restriction of Organophosphates
Megan K. Williams, Andrew Rundle, Darrell Holmes, Marilyn Reyes, Lori A. Hoepner, Dana B. Barr, David E. Camann, Frederica P. Perera, and Robin M. Whyatt
Also see Science Selections, p. A533
1681 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
DNA REPAIR | Inhalative Exposure to Vanadium Pentoxide Causes DNA Damage in Workers: Results of a Multiple End Point Study
Veronika A. Ehrlich, Armen K. Nersesyan, Christine Hoelzl, Franziska Ferk, Julia Bichler, Eva Valic, Andreas Schaffer, Rolf Schulte-Hermann, Michael Fenech,
Karl-Heinz Wagner, and Siegfried Knasmüller
1689 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
GENE REGULATION | Dietary Exposure to 2,2´,4,4´-Tetrabromodiphenyl Ether (PBDE-47)
Alters Thyroid Status and Thyroid Hormone–Regulated Gene Transcription in the Pituitary and Brain
Sean C. Lema, Jon T. Dickey, Irvin R. Schultz, and Penny Swanson
1694 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
EXPOSURE SCIENCE | Guidelines to Evaluate Human Observational Studies for Quantitative Risk Assessment
Jelle Vlaanderen, Roel Vermeulen, Dick Heederik, and Hans Kromhout, on behalf of the European Union Network of Excellence ECNIS Integrated Risk Assessment Group
1700 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY | Meeting Report: Methylmercury in Marine Ecosystems—From Sources to Seafood Consumers
Celia Y. Chen, Nancy Serrell, David C. Evers, Bethany J. Fleishman, Kathleen F. Lambert, Jeri Weiss, Robert P. Mason, and Michael S. Bank
1706 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISEASE | Depression and Pesticide Exposures among Private Pesticide Applicators Enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study
Cheryl L. Beseler, Lorann Stallones,
Jane A. Hoppin, Michael C.R. Alavanja, Aaron Blair, Thomas Keefe, and Freya Kamel
1713 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
HEALTH POLICY | Ten Years of Addressing Children's Health through Regulatory Policy
at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Devon Payne-Sturges and Debra Kemp
1720 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
ASTHMA | Chronic Exposure to Ambient Ozone and Asthma Hospital Admissions among Children
Shao Lin, Xiu Liu, Linh H. Le, and Syni-An Hwang
1725 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
FETAL DEVELOPMENT | Plutonium from Above-Ground Nuclear Tests in Milk Teeth: Investigation of Placental Transfer in Children Born between 1951 and 1995 in Switzerland
Pascal Froidevaux and Max Haldimann
1731 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE | A Framework for Widespread Replication of a Highly Spatially Resolved Childhood Lead Exposure Risk Model
Dohyeong Kim, M. Alicia Overstreet Galeano, Andrew Hull, and Marie Lynn Miranda
1735 [ Abstract ] [ Full ] [ PDF ]
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