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| The problem of obesity is assuming gigantic proportions, and the trend among children and teenagers is particularly alarming. The Focus (p. A700) investigates this growing epidemic and the suggestions being made to promote leaner--and healthier--kids.
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- Obese Children Gain a Lifetime of Health Problems
A 700
- Mini-Monograph
National Children's Study: Growing Concern about Endocrine Disruptors
1678, 1683 , & 1691
- Urban Foxes Are Novel Sentinels for Pollutants
1608
- Breathing In Resistance: Farmers Inhaling Livestock Drugs
A 717 & 1590
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Perspectives
Editorial
Obesity in the 21st Century Maida P. Galvez, Thomas R. Frieden, and Philip J. Landrigan
p. A 684
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Correspondence
- Preformed Biomarkers in Produce Inflate Human Organophosphate Exposure Assessments
- Pesticide Exposures and Children's Risk Tradeoffs
- Organophosphate Exposure: Response to Krieger et al. and Charnley
- Corn and Corn-Derived Products: Sources of Endocrine Disruptors
p. A 688
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Environews
Forum
- Economics of Enforcement
- Autism Research Made to Order
- Green Spaces Raise Chances of Success
- How Safe Are Swimming Pools?
- EHPnet: Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
- The Beat
p. A 692
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NIEHS News
- New Arrival: CERHR Monograph Series on Reproductive Toxicants
- NIEHS Fights Fat
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Increases School Absenteeism
p. A 696 [HTML] [ Download PDF]
Focus
Spheres of Influence
Adjusting for Youth: Updated Cancer Risk Guidelines
p. A 708
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Innovations
Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems: Rx for Sick Buildings
p. A 712
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Science Selections
- A Threat to Teen Workers
- Pesticides and Pregnant Women
- Livestock Drugs Infiltrate Dust
p. A 716
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Research
Commentaries
Embracing the Local: Enriching Scientific Research, Education, and Outreach on the Texas-Mexico Border through a Participatory Action Research Partnership May et al. p. 1571
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Risk Management and Precaution: Insights on the Cautious Use of Evidence Hrudey and Leiss p. 1577
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Articles
Historical Pesticide Exposure in California Using Pesticide Use Reports and Land-Use Surveys: An Assessment of Misclassification Error and Bias Rull and Ritz p. 1582
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Antibiotics in Dust Originating from a Pig-Fattening Farm: A New Source of Health Hazard for Farmers? Hamscher et al. p. 1590
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Measurement of Brevetoxin Levels by Radioimmunoassay of Blood Collection Cards after Acute, Long-Term, and Low-Dose Exposure in Mice Woofter et al. p. 1595
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Short-Term Exposure of Chinook Salmon (Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha) to o,p´-DDE or DMSO during Early Life-History Stages Causes Long-Term Humoral Immunosuppression Milston et al. p. 1601
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Age- and Sex-Dependent Distribution of Persistent Organochlorine Pollutants in Urban Foxes Dip et al. p. 1608
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Environmental Medicine
Articles
Associations of Renal Function with Polymorphisms in the -Aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase, Vitamin D Receptor, and Nitric Oxide Synthase Genes in Korean Lead Workers Weaver et al. p. 1613
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Hearing Loss in Workers Exposed to Carbon Disulfide and Noise Chang et al. p. 1620
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Measurement of Offline Exhaled Nitric Oxide in a Study of Community Exposure to Air Pollution Koenig et al. p. 1625
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Children's Health
Review
Comparable Measures of Cognitive Function in Human Infants and Laboratory Animals to Identify Environmental Health Risks to Children Sharbaugh et al. p. 1630
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Articles
Cumulative Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Risk Assessment among Pregnant Women Living in an Agricultural Community: A Case Study from the CHAMACOS Cohort Castorina et al. p. 1640
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Integrated Pest Management in an Urban Community: A Successful Partnership for Prevention Brenner et al. p. 1649
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Acute Occupational Disinfectant-Related Illness Among Youth, 1993-1998 Brevard et al. p. 1654
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Time Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Heavy Metals in Umbilical Cord Blood of Inuit Infants Born in Nunavik (Québec, Canada) between 1994 and 2001 Dallaire et al. p. 1660
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Vitamin D Receptor Fok1 Polymorphism and Blood Lead Concentration in Children Haynes et al. p. 1665
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Prenatal PCB Exposure, the Corpus Callosum, and Response Inhibition Stewart et al. p. 1670
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Mini-Monograph: Endocrine Disruptors
Assessing the Effects of Endocrine Disruptors in the National Children's Study Landrigan et al. p. 1678
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Exposure Assessment for Endocrine Disruptors: Some Considerations in the Design of Studies Rice et al. p. 1683
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An Approach to Assessment of Endocrine Disruption in the National Children's Study Longnecker et al. p. 1691
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