Perspectives

• Embedded in Nature: Human Health and Biodiversity
  Eric Chivian and Aaron S. Bernstein
• EHP Moves to Open Access
  Kenneth Olden and Thomas J. Goehl
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• The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Invokes the Data Quality Act to Reject Published Studies on Atrazine Toxicity
• Data Quality Act: Response from the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
• Risk of Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater Affecting the Ganga Alluvial Plain, India
• Risk of Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater: Response from Chakraborti et al.
• Re: "Increased Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Hexachlorobenzenes, and Chlordanes in Mothers of Men with Testicular Cancer"
• "Increased Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Hexachlorobenzenes, and Chlordanes": Response from Hardell and Eriksson
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Environews

• Paying Attention to Neglected Diseases
• An Affordable Antimalarial
• Tidal Turbines: Wave of the Future?
• Colombia Defies Court on Coca
• EHPnet: Humanitarian Resource Institute Emerging Infectious Disease Network
• The Beat

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• The Link between Disparity and Disease
• Water: A Paradigm for Protection
• Beyond the Bench: Cyber Schoolhouse Rocks!
• Headliners: Mold Exposure in First Year of Life May Lead to Asthma
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• Infectious Disease: The Human Costs of Our Environmental Errors
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• Diet and Dioxins: The Need to Cut Back
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• Constructed Wetlands: Borrowing a Concept from Nature
• Safe Water for All
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• Funky Chicken: Consumers Exposed to Arsenic in Poultry
• Poisoning Young Minds? Methyl Parathion May Be Linked to Neurodevelopment Problems
• Do-It-Yourself Biospecimens: The Benefits of Home Collection
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Research

"Getting the Lead Out" in Hartford, Connecticut: A Multifaceted Lead-Poisoning Awareness Campaign
McLaughlin et al.
p. 1
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A Retrospective Assessment of Mortality from the London Smog Episode of 1952: The Role of Influenza and Pollution
Bell et al.
p. 6
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Brominated Flame Retardants: Cause for Concern?
Birnbaum and Staskal
p. 9
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Mean Total Arsenic Concentrations in Chicken, 1989-2000, and Estimated Exposures for Consumers of Chicken
Lasky et al.
p. 18
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Relationship of Serum TCDD Concentrations and Age at Exposure of Female Residents of Seveso, Italy
Eskenazi et al.
p. 22
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Closing the Research Loop: A Risk-Based Approach for Communicating Results of Air Pollution Exposure Studies
Payne-Sturges et al.
p. 28
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Lead, Arsenic, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil and House Dust in the Communities Surrounding the Sydney, Nova Scotia, Tar Ponds
Lambert and Lane
p. 35
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Environmental Medicine

Correlation between Blood Ethylenethiourea and Thyroid Gland Disorders among Banana Plantation Workers in the Philippines
Panganiban et al.
p. 42
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Children's Health

Long-Term Neurobehavioral Health Effects of Methyl Parathion Exposure in Children in Mississippi and Ohio
Ruckart et al.
p. 46
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Identification of Sources of Lead in Children in a Primary Zinc-Lead Smelter Environment
Gulson et al.
p. 52
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Proximity of California Public Schools to Busy Roads
Green et al.
p. 61
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Mini-Monograph: Whence Healthy Children?

Our Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Chapin and Buck
p. 67
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Off to a Good Start: The Influence of Pre- and Periconceptional Exposures, Parental Fertility, and Nutrition on Children's Health
Chapin et al.
p. 69
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Prospective Pregnancy Study Designs for Assessing Reproductive and Developmental Toxicants
Buck et al.
p. 79
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Methodologic and Statistical Approaches to Studying Human Fertility and Environmental Exposure
Tingen et al.
p. 87
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The Value of Home-Based Collection of Biospecimens in Reproductive Epidemiology
Rockett et al.
p. 94
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Biomarkers for Assessing Reproductive Development and Health: Part 1--Pubertal Development
Rockett et al.
p. 105
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Announcements

• NIEHS Extramural Update
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• Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
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• Career Opportunities
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• Calendar
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• Book Review/New Books
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