| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCommentaries Lessons from the removal of lead from gasoline for controlling other environmental pollutants: A case study from New Zealand Nick Wilson and John Horrocks PMCID: PMC2263033 Collaborative research: Accomplishments & potential Klea Katsouyanni PMCID: PMC2265690 Methodology Household vacuum cleaners vs. the high-volume surface sampler for collection of carpet dust samples in epidemiologic studies of children Joanne S Colt, Robert B Gunier, Catherine Metayer, Marcia G Nishioka, Erin M Bell, Peggy Reynolds, Patricia A Buffler, and Mary H Ward PMCID: PMC2265689 Reviews Translocation pathways for inhaled asbestos fibers G Miserocchi, G Sancini, F Mantegazza, and Gerolamo Chiappino PMCID: PMC2265277 Reproductive toxicity of seafood contaminants: Prospective comparisons of Swedish east and west coast fishermen's families Anna Axmon, Lars Rylander, and Anna Rignell-Hydbom PMCID: PMC2438351 Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation Michelle L Bell, Devra L Davis, Luis A Cifuentes, Alan J Krupnick, Richard D Morgenstern, and George D Thurston PMCID: PMC2519068 Potential developmental neurotoxicity of pesticides used in Europe Marina Bjørling-Poulsen, Helle Raun Andersen, and Philippe Grandjean PMCID: PMC2577708 Health effects of ambient air pollution – recent research development and contemporary methodological challenges Cizao Ren and Shilu Tong PMCID: PMC2613877 Systematic review of worldwide variations of the prevalence of wheezing symptoms in children Swatee P Patel, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, and Mark P Little PMCID: PMC2614981 Facing the Challenge of Data Transfer from Animal Models to Humans: the Case of Persistent Organohalogens Alexander Suvorov and Larissa Takser PMCID: PMC2596097 A framework for integrated environmental health impact assessment of systemic risks David J Briggs PMCID: PMC2621147 Research PCB-containing wood floor finish is a likely source of elevated PCBs in residents' blood, household air and dust: a case study of exposure Ruthann A Rudel, Liesel M Seryak, and Julia G Brody PMCID: PMC2267460 An ecological time-series study of heat-related mortality in three European cities Ai Ishigami, Shakoor Hajat, R Sari Kovats, Luigi Bisanti, Magda Rognoni, Antonio Russo, and Anna Paldy PMCID: PMC2266730 The impact of the environment on health by country: a meta-synthesis Annette Prüss-Üstün, Sophie Bonjour, and Carlos Corvalán PMCID: PMC2276491 Mortality and life expectancy of Yokkaichi Asthma patients, Japan: Late effects of air pollution in 1960–70s Peng Guo, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Masami Suenaga, and Hirotaka Kida PMCID: PMC2311286 A comparison of self reported air pollution problems and GIS-modeled levels of air pollution in people with and without chronic diseases Fredrik Niclas Piro, Christian Madsen, Øyvind Næss, Per Nafstad, and Bjørgulf Claussen PMCID: PMC2289819 Breath acidification in adolescent runners exposed to atmospheric pollution: A prospective, repeated measures observational study Jill M Ferdinands, Carol A Gotway Crawford, Roby Greenwald, David Van Sickle, Eric Hunter, and W Gerald Teague PMCID: PMC2292713 Metals and kidney markers in adult offspring of endemic nephropathy patients and controls: a two-year follow-up study Wilfried Karmaus, Plamen Dimitrov, Valeri Simeonov, Svetla Tsolova, Angel Bonev, and Rossitza Georgieva PMCID: PMC2323372 Biological exposure assessment to tetrachloroethylene for workers in the dry cleaning industry Lauralynn T McKernan, Avima M Ruder, Martin R Petersen, Misty J Hein, Christy L Forrester, Wayne T Sanderson, David L Ashley, and Mary A Butler PMCID: PMC2374777 Cancer mortality in IBM Endicott plant workers, 1969–2001: an update on a NY production plant Richard W Clapp and Kate Hoffman PMCID: PMC2383884 Vehicle emissions and consumer information in car advertisements Nick Wilson, Anthony Maher, George Thomson, and Michael Keall PMCID: PMC2387141 Influence of genetic factors on toluene diisocyanate-related symptoms: evidence from a cross-sectional study Karin Broberg, Håkan Tinnerberg, Anna Axmon, Margareta Warholm, Agneta Rannug, and Margareta Littorin PMCID: PMC2424047 The effect of ambient air pollution on respiratory health of school children: a panel study Michael J Epton, Robin D Dawson, Wendy M Brooks, Simon Kingham, Teresa Aberkane, Jo-Anne E Cavanagh, Christopher M Frampton, Tracey Hewitt, Julie M Cook, Susan McLeod, Fiona McCartin, Katherine Trought, and Leslie Brown PMCID: PMC2427023 Land use regression modeling of intra-urban residential variability in multiple traffic-related air pollutants Jane E Clougherty, Rosalind J Wright, Lisa K Baxter, and Jonathan I Levy PMCID: PMC2397396 Use of wireless telephones and self-reported health symptoms: a population-based study among Swedish adolescents aged 15–19 years Fredrik Söderqvist, Michael Carlberg, and Lennart Hardell PMCID: PMC2430957 Exposure from the Chernobyl accident had adverse effects on erythrocytes, leukocytes, and, platelets in children in the Narodichesky region, Ukraine: A 6-year follow-up study Eugenia Stepanova, Wilfried Karmaus, Marina Naboka, Vitaliy Vdovenko, Tim Mousseau, Viacheslav M Shestopalov, John Vena, Erik Svendsen, Dwight Underhill, and Harris Pastides PMCID: PMC2459146 Is there adaptation in the ozone mortality relationship: A multi-city case-crossover analysis Antonella Zanobetti and Joel Schwartz PMCID: PMC2429903 Water disinfection by-products and the risk of specific birth defects: a population-based cross-sectional study in Taiwan Bing-Fang Hwang, Jouni JK Jaakkola, and How-Ran Guo PMCID: PMC2467412 Evaluation of the Webler-Brown model for estimating tetrachloroethylene exposure from vinyl-lined asbestos-cement pipes Lisa A Spence, Ann Aschengrau, Lisa E Gallagher, Thomas F Webster, Timothy C Heeren, and David M Ozonoff PMCID: PMC2432054 Re-evaluation of blood mercury, lead and cadmium concentrations in the Inuit population of Nunavik (Québec): a cross-sectional study Julie Fontaine, Éric Dewailly, Jean-Louis Benedetti, Daria Pereg, Pierre Ayotte, and Serge Déry PMCID: PMC2442064 Pollutant effects on genotoxic parameters and tumor-associated protein levels in adults: a cross sectional study Sam De Coster, Gudrun Koppen, Marc Bracke, Carmen Schroijen, Elly Den Hond, Vera Nelen, Els Van de Mieroop, Liesbeth Bruckers, Maaike Bilau, Willy Baeyens, Greet Schoeters, and Nik van Larebeke PMCID: PMC2442593 Association of urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations with body mass index and waist circumference: a cross-sectional study of NHANES data, 1999–2002 Elizabeth E Hatch, Jessica W Nelson, M Mustafa Qureshi, Janice Weinberg, Lynn L Moore, Martha Singer, and Thomas F Webster PMCID: PMC2440739 Exposure to animals and the risk of allergic asthma: a population-based cross-sectional study in Finnish and Russian children Timo T Hugg, Maritta S Jaakkola, Risto Ruotsalainen, Vadim Pushkarev, and Jouni JK Jaakkola PMCID: PMC2430194 Cardiac autonomic activity and blood pressure among Nunavik Inuit adults exposed to environmental mercury: a cross-sectional study Beatriz Valera, Eric Dewailly, and Paul Poirier PMCID: PMC2443124 Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study Christophe Paris, Aurélie Martin, Marc Letourneux, and Pascal Wild PMCID: PMC2441611 Risk behaviors in a rural community with a known point-source exposure to chronic wasting disease Ralph M Garruto, Chris Reiber, Marta P Alfonso, Heidi Gastrich, Kelsey Needham, Sarah Sunderman, Sarah Walker, Jennifer Weeks, Nicholas DeRosa, Eric Faisst, John Dunn, Kenneth Fanelli, and Kenneth Shilkret PMCID: PMC2453121 An examination of cancer epidemiology studies among populations living close to toxic waste sites Mark B Russi, Jonathan B Borak, and Mark R Cullen PMCID: PMC2443363 Complaints of the arm, neck and shoulder among computer office workers in Sudan: a prevalence study with validation of an Arabic risk factors questionnaire Shahla M Eltayeb, J Bart Staal, Amar A Hassan, Salwa S Awad, and Rob A de Bie PMCID: PMC2474607 Self-reported neurological symptoms in relation to CO emissions due to problem gas appliance installations in London: a cross-sectional survey Ben Croxford, Giovanni S Leonardi, and Irene Kreis PMCID: PMC2459147 Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers Martin Röösli, Matthias Egger, Dominik Pfluger, and Christoph Minder PMCID: PMC2483270 PM2.5 metal exposures and nocturnal heart rate variability: a panel study of boilermaker construction workers Jennifer M Cavallari, Ellen A Eisen, Shona C Fang, Joel Schwartz, Russ Hauser, Robert F Herrick, and David C Christiani PMCID: PMC2481261 A cohort study of in utero polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures in relation to secondary sex ratio Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Todd A Jusko, Eric J Willman, Rebecca J Baker, Jean A Keller, Stuart W Teplin, and M Judith Charles PMCID: PMC2483969 Xenohormone transactivities are inversely associated to serum POPs in Inuit Tanja Krüger, Mandana Ghisari, Philip S Hjelmborg, Bente Deutch, and Eva C Bonefeld-Jorgensen PMCID: PMC2503956 A 10-year time-series analysis of respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity in Nicosia, Cyprus: the effect of short-term changes in air pollution and dust storms Nicos Middleton, Panayiotis Yiallouros, Savvas Kleanthous, Ourania Kolokotroni, Joel Schwartz, Douglas W Dockery, Phil Demokritou, and Petros Koutrakis PMCID: PMC2517071 Parallel assessment of male reproductive function in workers and wild rats exposed to pesticides in banana plantations in Guadeloupe Luc Multigner, Philippe Kadhel, Michel Pascal, Farida Huc-Terki, Henri Kercret, Catherine Massart, Eustase Janky, Jacques Auger, and Bernard Jégou PMCID: PMC2519067 Vegetation fire smoke, indigenous status and cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in Darwin, Australia, 1996–2005: a time-series study Ivan C Hanigan, Fay H Johnston, and Geoffrey G Morgan PMCID: PMC2535774 Control of asthma triggers in indoor air with air cleaners: a modeling analysis Theodore A Myatt, Taeko Minegishi, Joseph G Allen, and David L MacIntosh PMCID: PMC2543006 Occupational exposures and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Canadian case-control study Chandima P Karunanayake, Helen H McDuffie, James A Dosman, John J Spinelli, and Punam Pahwa PMCID: PMC2531101 Geographic risk modeling of childhood cancer relative to county-level crops, hazardous air pollutants and population density characteristics in Texas James A Thompson, Susan E Carozza, and Li Zhu PMCID: PMC2572154 Investigating health effects in a community surrounding a road tunnel stack – a cross sectional study Adam Capon, Vicky Sheppeard, Katie Irvine, Bin Jalaludin, Michael Staff, Guy Marks, and Alan Willmore PMCID: PMC2565655 Association of clinical findings in Yusho patients with serum concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated quarterphenyls and 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodibenzofuran more than 30 years after the poisoning event Yoshiyuki Kanagawa, Shinya Matsumoto, Soichi Koike, Bunichi Tajima, Noriko Fukiwake, Satoko Shibata, Hiroshi Uchi, Masutaka Furue, and Tomoaki Imamura PMCID: PMC2572596 Particulate air pollution and survival in a COPD cohort Antonella Zanobetti, Marie-Abele C Bind, and Joel Schwartz PMCID: PMC2572050 Spatial variations in the incidence of breast cancer and potential risks associated with soil dioxin contamination in Midland, Saginaw, and Bay Counties, Michigan, USA Dajun Dai and Tonny J Oyana PMCID: PMC2577707 Risk for non Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the vicinity of French municipal solid waste incinerators Jean-François Viel, Côme Daniau, Sarah Goria, Pascal Fabre, Perrine de Crouy-Chanel, Erik-André Sauleau, and Pascal Empereur-Bissonnet PMCID: PMC2587460 Mercury immune toxicity in harbour seals: links to in vitro toxicity Krishna Das, Ursula Siebert, Audrey Gillet, Aurélie Dupont, Carole Di-Poï, Sonja Fonfara, Gabriel Mazzucchelli, Edwin De Pauw, and Marie-Claire De Pauw-Gillet PMCID: PMC2600635 Feeding mice with diets containing mercury-contaminated fish flesh from French Guiana: a model for the mercurial intoxication of the Wayana Amerindians Jean-Paul Bourdineaud, Nadège Bellance, Giovani Bénard, Daniel Brèthes, Masatake Fujimura, Patrice Gonzalez, Aline Marighetto, Régine Maury-Brachet, Cécile Mormède, Vanessa Pédron, Jean-Nicolas Philippin, Rodrigue Rossignol, William Rostène, Masumi Sawada, and Muriel Laclau PMCID: PMC2584016 Exposure to mobile telecommunication networks assessed using personal dosimetry and well-being in children and adolescents: the German MobilEe-study Silke Thomas, Anja Kühnlein, Sabine Heinrich, Georg Praml, Rüdiger von Kries, and Katja Radon PMCID: PMC2614418 Concentrations versus amounts of biomarkers in urine: a comparison of approaches to assess pyrethroid exposure Marie-Chantale Fortin, Gaétan Carrier, and Michèle Bouchard PMCID: PMC2615748 Semen quality in Peruvian pesticide applicators: association between urinary organophosphate metabolites and semen parameters Sandra Yucra, Manuel Gasco, Julio Rubio, and Gustavo F Gonzales PMCID: PMC2588569 The effects of socioeconomic status and indices of physical environment on reduced birth weight and preterm births in Eastern Massachusetts Ariana Zeka, Steve J Melly, and Joel Schwartz PMCID: PMC2607263 |
