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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 109, Number 8, August 2001
Environmental Health Perspectives August 2001 On The Cover:Although the physicians' creed is "first, do no harm," the facilities they work in may not be following suit. The Focus article examines the environmental hazards of health care facilities that may be hindering healing or even causing illness in patients and health care workers alike.
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  • Hidden Hazards of Health Care Facilities p. A 370
  • Economic Incentives, Environmental Payoff p. A 378
  • Low-Dose Pesticides: A Change of Thought p. A 386 & 839

In This Issue


Perspectives

Editorial

  • To BaP or Not to BaP? That Is the Question
    Lawrence S. Goldstein
    p. A 356

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Correspondence
  • Comments on "In Vitro and in Vivo Estrogenicity of UV Screens"
  • "In Vitro and in Vivo Estrogenicity of UV Screens": Response
  • The Full Circle: From the Minamata Disaster to the Sick Building Syndrome
    p. A 358

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Environews

Forum

  • Wildfires Ignite Concern
  • Clothing Spreads Spores
  • The Soot Factor
  • A Million Women Get Hormonal
  • The Beat
  • EHPnet: Environmental Defense Scorecard: Environmental Justice
    p. A 364

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NIEHS News
  • Sister Study Hopes to Answer Breast Cancer Questions
    NTP Technical Report Update
    p. A 368

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Focus
  • Making Health Care Healthier: A Prescription for Change
    p. A 370

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Spheres of Influence
  • The Market for Pollution
    p. A 378

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Innovations
  • SCORR One for the Environment
    p. A 382

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Science Selections

  • Pondering on Pesticides
  • Lead in Your Body
  • Mice Beat Rats
    p. A 386

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Research


Review
  • Vaccine-Induced Antibody Responses as Parameters of the Influence of Endogenous and Environmental Factors
    Henk Van Loveren, Jan G. C. Van Amsterdam, Rob J. Vandebriel, Tjeerd G. Kimman, Hans C. Rümke, Peter S. Steerenberg, and Jeff G. Vos
    p. 757

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Articles
  • Comparison of Gas-Phase Free-Radical Populations in Tobacco Smoke and Model Systems by HPLC
    Thomas M. Flicker and Sarah A. Green
    p. 765

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  • A Randomized, Blinded, Controlled Trial Investigating the Gastrointestinal Health Effects of Drinking Water Quality
    Margaret E. Hellard, Martha I. Sinclair, Andrew B. Forbes, and Christopher K. Fairley
    p. 773

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  • Assessing Elemental Mercury Vapor Exposure from Cultural and Religious Practices
    Donna M. Riley, C. Alison Newby, Tomas O. Leal-Almeraz, and Valerie M. Thomas
    p. 779

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  • The OECD Program to Validate the Rat Uterotrophic Bioassay to Screen Compounds for in Vivo Estrogenic Responses: Phase 1
    Jun Kanno, Lesley Onyon, Joseph Haseman, Penelope Fenner-Crisp, John Ashby, and William Owens
    p. 785

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  • Increased Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase in Clara Cell-Ablated Mice Inhaling Crystalline Silica
    Kazuhiro Yatera, Yasuo Morimoto, Heung-Nam Kim, Hiroshi Yamato, Isamu Tanaka, and Masamitsu Kido
    p. 795

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  • The Immortalized UROtsa Cell Line as a Potential Cell Culture Model of Human Urothelium
    Michael R. Rossi, John R. W. Masters, Seongmi Park, John H. Todd, Scott H. Garrett, Mary Ann Sens, Seema Somji, Joginder Nath, and Donald A. Sens
    p. 801

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  • Measurement of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure among Adults with Asthma
    Mark D. Eisner, Patricia P. Katz, Edward H. Yelin, S. Katharine Hammond, and Paul D. Blanc
    p. 809

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  • Effects of Physical Interventions on House Dust Mite Allergen Levels in Carpet, Bed, and Upholstery Dust in Low-Income, Urban Homes
    Patrick J. Vojta, Sandra P. Randels, James Stout, Michael Muilenberg, Harriet A. Burge, Henry Lynn, Herman Mitchell, George T. O'Connor, and Darryl C. Zeldin
    p. 815

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  • The Immature Mouse Is a Suitable Model for Detection of Estrogenicity in the Uterotropic Bioassay
    Elizabeth Padilla-Banks, Wendy N. Jefferson, and Retha R. Newbold
    p. 821

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  • The delta-Aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase (ALAD) Polymorphism and Bone and Blood Lead Levels in Community-Exposed Men: The Normative Aging Study
    Howard Hu, Ming-Tsang Wu, Yawen Cheng, David Sparrow, Scott Weiss, and Karl Kelsey
    p. 827

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  • Variability in Aflatoxin-Albumin Adduct Levels and Effects of Hepatitis B and C Virus Infection and Glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 Genotype
    Habibul Ahsan, Li-Yu Wang, Chien-Jen Chen, Wei-Yann Tsai, and Regina M. Santella
    p. 833

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  • Neuropsychologic Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Pesticides: Results from the French Phytoner Study
    Isabelle Baldi, Laurent Filleul, Brahim Mohammed-Brahim, Colette Fabrigoule, Jean-François Dartigues, Sandrine Schwall, Jean-Philippe Drevet, Roger Salamon, and Patrick Brochard
    p. 839

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  • Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a Marker of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Function in Developing Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
    Carolyn J. Mattingly, John A. McLachlan, and William A. Toscano, Jr.
    p. 845

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Children's Health
  • An Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Pesticide Exposure on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in an Ontario Farm Population
    Tye E. Arbuckle, Zhiqiu Lin, and Leslie S. Mery
    p. 851

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  • Predictors of Airborne Endotoxin in the Home
    Ju-Hyeong Park, Donna L. Spiegelman, Diane R. Gold, Harriet A. Burge, and Donald K. Milton
    p. 859

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Grand Rounds
  • Severe 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) Intoxication: Clinical and Laboratory Effects
    Alexandra Geusau, Klaus Abraham, Klaus Geissler, Michael O. Sator, Georg Stingl, and Erwin Tschachler
    p. 865

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  • Extramurally Speaking
    [HTML] [ PDF] p. A 389
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