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NEWS:
Air Pollution Increases Risk of Early Death: Study
In Americans, Lower Levels Of Chemicals
Ozone depletion will bring big rise in number of cataracts
Parking Lots Paving the Way for Pollution
Pesticide-Related Illness Relatively Common in School Employees and Students
Power Lines Threaten Kids’ Health
Pyrethroid pesticides found at toxic levels in California urban streams
Research Ties Arsenic to Tumor Growth
Sealants in Playgrounds May Block Arsenic
Studies Confirm Ozone's Health Risks
WHO: Dirty air a regular killer in Asia
ARTICLES:
CDC Releases Extensive Survey of Americans? Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Indoor Air Quality: Part II -- What It Does
National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Pesticide spraying and health effects.
Predicting and Reducing Lead Poisoning in Urban Youth
Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methylmercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain
Radon: What Do You Need to Know?
The epidemiology of pesticide exposure and cancer: A review. (Rev Environ Health. 2005)
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Agricultural pesticide use and risk of glioma in Nebraska, United States. (Occup Environ Med. 2005)
Air pollution and birth weight among term infants in California. (Pediatrics. 2005)
Air Pollution and Child Respiratory Health: a Case-crossover Study in Australia and New Zealand. (Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005)
Air pollution and daily hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Windsor, Ontario. (Can J Public Health. 2005)
Air pollution, weather, and respiratory emergency room visits in two northern New England cities: an ecological time-series study. (Environ Res. 2005)
Aircraft and road traffic noise and children's cognition and health: a cross-national study (The Lancet 2005)
Ambient Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis in Los Angeles (Environ Health Perspect)
Background exposure to PCDDs/PCDFs/PCBs and its potential health effects: a review of epidemiologic studies. (J Med Invest. 2005)
Bioaerosols and sick building syndrome: particles, inflammation, and allergy. (Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2005)
Biomarkers in assessing residential insecticide exposures during pregnancy and effects on fetal growth. (Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005)
Breast cancer risk and exposure in early life to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using total suspended particulates as a proxy measure. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005)
Building characteristics affect the risk of allergy development. (Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2005)
Cancer Incidence among Male Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health Study Cohort Exposed to Diazinon (American Journal of Epidemiology 2005)
Cancer incidence in the Swedish leather tanning industry: updated findings 1958-99. (Occup Environ Med. 2005)
Children's exposure to environmental pollutants and biomarkers of genetic damage II. Results of a comprehensive literature search and meta-analysis. (Mutat Res. 2005)
Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospitalization for Respiratory Infections in Children Younger Than 15 Years in Toronto: A Case-Crossover Analysis (PEDIATRICS 2005)
Diesel Exhaust Inhalation Causes Vascular Dysfunction and Impaired Endogenous Fibrinolysis (Circulation. 2005)
Diesel exhaust particles cause increased levels of DNA deletions after transplacental exposure in mice. (Mutat Res. 2005)
Do indoor pollutants and thermal conditions in schools influence student performance? A critical review of the literature. (Indoor Air. 2005)
Effects of air pollution on blood pressure and heart rate variability: a panel study of vehicular traffic controllers in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Eur Heart J. 2005)
Effects of carbon monoxide air pollution in pregnancy on neonatal nucleated red blood cells. (Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2005)
Environmental health: an opportunity for health promotion and disease prevention. (AAOHN J. 2005)
Estimating the economic burden from illnesses associated with recreational coastal water pollution-a case study in Orange County, California. (J Environ Manage. 2005)
Estimating the exposure-response relationships between particulate matter and mortality within the APHEA multicity project. (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
Health effects of indoor fungi. (Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2005)
Impact of the 2002 Canadian forest fires on particulate matter air quality in Baltimore city. (Environ Sci Technol. 2005)
Indoor air pollution from biomass fuels and respiratory health of the exposed population in Nepalese households. (Int J Occup Environ Health. 2005)
Indoor allergens in settled school dust: a review of findings and significant factors. (Clin Exp Allergy. 2005)
Indoor radon levels in selected hot spring hotels in Guangdong, China. (Sci Total Environ. 2005)
Is house dust the missing exposure pathway for PBDEs? An analysis of the urban fate and human exposure to PBDEs. (Environ Sci Technol. 2005)
Lead exposure inhibits fracture healing and is associated with increased chondrogenesis, delay in cartilage mineralization, and a decrease in osteoprogenitor frequency. (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
Lifetime environmental tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005)
Long-term Air Pollution Exposure and Acceleration of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Inflammation in an Animal Model (JAMA. 2005)
Long-term air pollution exposure and living close to busy roads are associated with COPD in women (Respiratory Research 2005)
Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure and Children's Intellectual Function: An International Pooled Analysis (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
Lung cancer in an urban area in Northern Italy near a coke oven plant. (Lung Cancer. 2005)
Lung Cancer Pathogenesis Associated With Wood Smoke Exposure (Chest. 2005)
Mercury and autoimmunity: Implications for occupational and environmental health. (Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005)
Mercury concentrations in red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, from estuarine and offshore waters of Florida. (Mar Pollut Bull. 2005)
Mercury in commercial fish: optimizing individual choices to reduce risk. (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
Mortality and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution: ongoing analyses based on the american cancer society cohort. (J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2005)
Mould/dampness exposure at home is associated with respiratory disorders in Italian children and adolescents: the SIDRIA-2 Study. (Occup Environ Med. 2005)
[Noise induced annoyance and morbidity. Results from the pan European LARES-survey] (Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2005)
Occurrence and fate of pharmaceutically active compounds in the environment, a case study: Hoje River in Sweden. (J Hazard Mater. 2005)
Outdoor Air Pollution and Stroke in Sheffield, United Kingdom (Stroke. 2005)
Oxidative stress-induced DNA damage by particulate air pollution. (Mutat Res. 2005)
[Particles in the outside air increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases] (Gesundheitswesen. 2005)
Particulate matter and heart disease: Evidence from epidemiological studies. (Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005)
Pesticide exposure and cancer among rural workers from Bariri, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. (Environ Int. 2005)
Relation of trihalomethane concentrations in public water supplies to stillbirth and birth weight in three water regions in England. (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
Residential Radon and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Combined Analysis of 7 North American Case-Control Studies. (Epidemiology 2005)
Respiratory Morbidity in Office Workers in a Water-Damaged Building (Environ Health Perspect 2005)
Retinal degeneration and other eye disorders in wives of farmer pesticide applicators enrolled in the agricultural health study. (Am J Epidemiol. 2005)
Seasonal Analyses of Air Pollution and Mortality in 100 US Cities (American Journal of Epidemiology 2005)
Should people be physically active outdoors on smog alert days? (Can J Public Health. 2005)
Smoking and reproduction: The oviduct as a target of cigarette smoke. (Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2005)
Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles. (Epidemiology. 2005)
Spatial analysis of lung, colorectal, and breast cancer on Cape Cod: An application of generalized additive models to case-control data. (Environ Health. 2005)
Subway particles are more genotoxic than street particles and induce oxidative stress in cultured human lung cells. (Chem Res Toxicol. 2005)
The Association between Fatal Coronary Heart Disease and Ambient Particulate Air Pollution: Are Females at Greater Risk? (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)
The epidemiology of pesticide exposure and cancer: A review. (Rev Environ Health. 2005)
The global burden of disease due to outdoor air pollution. (J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2005)
[The holding of "International Symposium on Children's Environmental Health"] (Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi. 2005)
The use and disposal of household pesticides. (Environ Res. 2005)
Work-related asthma in teachers in Connecticut: association with chronic water damage and fungal growth in schools. (Conn Med. 2005)
INTERNET SITES:
EPA - 8-Hour Ground-level Ozone Designations
EPA - Ozone and Particle Pollution Maps
EPA - Sources of Indoor Air Pollution - Carbon Monoxide
EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund
EPA - U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Hazardous Waste Site Basic Query Form
NIH - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH - NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives Journal
NIH - NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives - Hidden Hazards of Health Care Facilities
NIH - NIEHS National Toxicology Program Chemical Health and Safety Data
NIH - NIEHS National Toxicology Program Report on Carcinogens
Scorecard - Environmental Issues
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
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