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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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