Perspectives

Editorial

• Environmental Health in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Problems and Capacities
  Hiremagalur N.B. Gopalan
  p. A 446

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• Herbicide Effects on Embryo Implantation and Litter Size
• Reported Seasonal Dependence of Herbicide Developmental Toxicity in Mice
• Asthma and Gulf War Exposures
• Asthma and Gulf War Exposures: Response
• Communication in Emergencies
• Communication in Emergencies: Response
  p. A 450

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Environews

Forum

• WHO Names Top 10 Health Risks
• New Paint: No Harm, No Foul
• MODIS Operandi for Mapping Haze
• EHPnet: Development Gateway Foundation
• The Beat
  p. A 456

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• Building Self-Reliance in Environmental Science: The ITREOH Experience
• Headliners: Bisphenol A Linked to Chromosome Damage in Mice
  p. A 460

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• The Capacity to Change: Building Global Environmental Health Expertise
  p. A 464

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Spheres of Influence

• Environmental Triage in Afghanistan
  p. A 470

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Innovations

• Connecting to a Sustainable Future
  p. A 474

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• Suspect Inheritance
• Concentrating on PBDEs
• Heavy on the Metals
  p. A 480

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Research

Commentaries

• No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold
  Mackie et al.
  p. 1145

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• Assessing Human Exposure to Phthalates Using Monoesters and Their Oxidized Metabolites as Biomarkers
  Barr et al.
  p. 1148

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• A Climate-Based Model Predicts the Spatial Distribution of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis in the United States
  Brownstein et al.
  p. 1152

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• Effects of the Isoflavones Genistein and Equol on the Gonadal Development of Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes)
  Kiparissis et al.
  p. 1158

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• The Relationship between Environmental Exposures to Phthalates and DNA Damage in Human Sperm Using the Neutral Comet Assay
  Duty et al.
  p. 1164

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• On the Relationship between Time-Series Studies, Dynamic Population Studies, and Estimating Loss of Life Due to Short-Term Exposure to Environmental Risks
  Burnett et al.
  p. 1170

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• High Body Burdens of 2,2´,4,4´-Tetrabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-47) in California Women
  Petreas et al.
  p. 1175

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• Bisphenol A Is Released from Used Polycarbonate Animal Cages into Water at Room Temperature
  Howdeshell et al.
  p. 1180

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• The Temporal Pattern of Respiratory and Heart Disease Mortality in Response to Air Pollution
  Zanobetti et al.
  p. 1188

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• Arsenic Groundwater Contamination in Middle Ganga Plain, Bihar, India: A Future Danger?
  Chakraborti et al.
  p. 1194

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• Skin as a Route of Exposure and Sensitization in Chronic Beryllium Disease
  Tinkle et al.
  p. 1202

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• Toxicologic and Epidemiologic Clues from the Characterization of the 1952 London Smog Fine Particulate Matter in Archival Autopsy Lung Tissues
  Hunt et al.
  p. 1209

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• Inhalation Exposure of Rats to Asphalt Fumes Generated at Paving Temperatures Alters Pulmonary Xenobiotic Metabolism Pathways without Lung Injury
  Ma et al.
  p. 1215

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• Distribution of Methyl Sulfone Metabolites of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and p,p´-DDE in Human Tissues
  Chu et al.
  p. 1222

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• A Study of Urban Housing Demolitions as Sources of Lead in Ambient Dust: Demolition Practices and Exterior Dust Fall
  Farfel et al.
  p. 1228

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Environmental Medicine

Articles

• Human Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Polychlorobiphenylols, and Pentachlorophenol
  Guvenius et al.
  p. 1235

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• The Work Environment and Workers' Health in Four Large Office Buildings
  Chao et al.
  p. 1242

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Children's Health

Articles

• Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Maternal and Fetal Blood Samples
  Mazdai et al.
  p. 1249

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• Assessment of Pre- and Postnatal Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Lessons from the Inuit Cohort Study
  Ayotte et al.
  p. 1253

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• Birth Malformations and Other Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Four U.S. Wheat-Producing States
  Schreinemachers
  p. 1259

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• Particle Concentrations in Inner-City Homes of Children with Asthma: The Effect of Smoking, Cooking, and Outdoor Pollution
  Wallace et al.
  p. 1265

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Announcements

• Corrections
  p. A 453
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• NIEHS Extramural Update
  p. A 483
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