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| In more and more countries these days, just attempting to cross the street or ride a bike to the market may mean putting your life at risk. The Spheres of Influence (p. A628) examines the exploding epidemic of traffic-related deaths in developing nations, and looks at what can be done to minimize the risks of humans and machines colliding.
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Collision Course: Global Rise in Traffic Deaths
A 628
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Informed Growth: The Anti-Sprawl
A 620
- Spraying for West Nile Virus: Asthma Effects Avoided
A 637 & 1183
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Deconstructing Obesity
A 616
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Arsenic Trade-offs
1172 and A 636
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Book Review: An Air that Kills
A 650
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Perspectives
Editorial
p. A 598
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Olden Times: Looking Back on a Career at the NIEHS
David P. Brown, Kimberly G. Thigpen Tart, and Thomas J. Goehl
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p. A 600
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Impacts of Our Built Environment on Public Health
Allen Dearry
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Correspondence
p. A 604
- Studying Human Fertility and Environmental Exposures
- Studying Human Fertility
- Studying Human Fertility: Response to Slama et al. and Joffe et al.
- The WTC Disaster and Asbestos Regulations
- The WTC Disaster: Landrigan's Response
- Trichloroethylene and Cardiac Malformations
- Trichloroethylene: Johnson et al.'s Response
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Environews
Forum
p. A 612
- Mother's Thyroid, Baby's Health
- Asia's Two-Stroke Engine Dilemma
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EU Ramps Up Road Improvements
- Surf's Yuck
- EHPnet: European Pollutant Emission Register
- The Beat
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NIEHS News
p. A 616
- Fighting Obesity Through the Built Environment
- Beyond the Bench: Keeping Migrant Families Safe
- Headliners: Hepatitis B Virus Mutation Predicts Liver Cancer
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Focus
p. A 620
Spheres of Influence
p. A 628
- Vehicular Manslaughter: The Global Epidemic of Traffic Deaths
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Innovations
p. A 632
Science Selections
p. A 636
- Measuring Lead Effects
- Risky Trade-offs
- Spraying on a Summer Night
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Research
Commentaries
The Need to Decide If All Estrogens Are Intrinsically Similar
Jonathan G. Moggs, John Ashby, Helen Tinwell, Fei Ling Lim, David J. Moore, Ian Kimber, and George Orphanides
p. 1137
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Using Human Disease Outbreaks as a Guide to Multilevel Ecosystem Interventions
Angus Cook, Andrew Jardine, and Philip Weinstein
p. 1143
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Articles
Determinants of Bone and Blood Lead Levels among Minorities Living in the Boston Area
Charles Lin, Rokho Kim, Shirng-Wern Tsaih, David Sparrow, and Howard Hu
p. 1147
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Age-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis: A Quantitative Analysis of Empirical Animal Bioassay Data
Dale Hattis, Robert Goble, Abel Russ, Margaret Chu, and Jen Ericson
p. 1152
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Behavioral Alterations in Response to Fear-Provoking Stimuli and Tranylcypromine Induced by Perinatal Exposure to Bisphenol A and Nonylphenol in Male Rats
Takayuki Negishi, Katsuyoshi Kawasaki, Shingo Suzaki, Haruna Maeda, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Shigeru Kyuwa, Yoichiro Kuroda, and Yasuhiro Yoshikawa
p. 1159
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Hair Mercury Levels in U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age: Reference Range Data from NHANES 1999-2000
Margaret A. McDowell, Charles F. Dillon, John Osterloh, P. Michael Bolger, Edo Pellizzari, Reshan Fernando, Ruben Montes de Oca, Susan E. Schober, Thomas Sinks, Robert L. Jones, and Kathryn R. Mahaffey
p. 1165
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The Effect of Arsenic Mitigation Interventions on Disease Burden in Bangladesh
Kamalini M. Lokuge, Wayne Smith, Bruce Caldwell, Keith Dear, and Abul H. Milton
p. 1172
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Lead, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Renal Function: The Normative Aging Study
Shirng-Wern Tsaih, Susan Korrick, Joel Schwartz, Chitra Amarasiriwardena, Antonio Aro, David Sparrow, and Howard Hu
p. 1178
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Pesticide Spraying for West Nile Virus Control and Emergency Department Asthma Visits in New York City, 2000
Adam M. Karpati, Mary C. Perrin, Tom Matte, Jessica Leighton, Joel Schwartz, and R. Graham Barr
p. 1183
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Environmental Medicine
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Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Liver Cirrhosis in Vinyl Chloride Workers: Synergistic Effect of Occupational Exposure with Alcohol Intake
Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Ugo Fedeli, Emanuela Fadda, Flavio Valentini, Roberto Agnesi, Giancarlo Magarotto, Teresio Marchì, Andrea Buda, Massimo Pinzani, and Diego Martines
p. 1188
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The Relationship between Levels of PCBs and Pesticides in Human Hair and Blood: Preliminary Result
Larisa Altshul, Adrian Covaci, and Russ Hauser
p. 1193
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Children's Health
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The Association between Environmental Lead Exposure and Bone Density in Children
James R. Campbell, Randy N. Rosier, Leonore Novotny, and J. Edward Puzas
p. 1200
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Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Related Perfluorinated Compounds in Human Maternal and Cord Blood Samples: Assessment of PFOS Exposure in a Susceptible Population during Pregnancy
Koichi Inoue, Fumio Okada, Rie Ito, Shizue Kato, Seiko Sasaki, Sonomi Nakajima, Akiko Uno, Yasuaki Saijo, Fumihiro Sata, Yoshihiro Yoshimura, Reiko Kishi, and Hiroyuki Nakazawa
p. 1204
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Fetal Exposure to PCBs and Their Hydroxylated Metabolites in a Dutch Cohort
Shalini Devi Soechitram, Maria Athanasiadou, Lotta Hovander, Åke Bergman, and Pieter Jan Jacob Sauer
p. 1208
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Drinking Water Contaminants, Gene Polymorphisms, and Fetal Growth
Claire Infante-Rivard
p. 1213
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