Most Recent Articles from Environmental Health Perspectives

• A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions used to reduce exposure to house dust and their effect on the development and severity of Asthma 

  During the 1960s, hospital admission rates in England and Wales for childhood asthma steadily increased. This trend continued into the 1980s and...

  12/01/07 by Clare Macdonald Anna Sternberg Paul R. Hunter · More from publication

• Cumulative community-level lead exposure and pulse pressure: the Normative Aging Study 

  In industrialized societies, pulse pressure (systolic minus diastolic blood pressure) increases with age, a trend that accelerates in the sixth...

  12/01/07 by Perlstein Todd Jennifer Weuve Joel Schwartz David Sparrow Robert Wright Augusto Litonjua Huiling Nie Howard Hu · More from publication

• Electrochemical sensors for the detection of lead and other toxic heavy metals: the next generation of personal exposure biomonitors 

  Biological monitoring (biomonitoring) can integrate total exposure to a chemical from all potential sources (i.e., air, soil, water, and food...

  12/01/07 by Wassana Yantasee Yuehe Lin Kitiya Hongsirikarn Glen E. Fryxell Raymond Addleman Charles Timchalk · More from publication

• Global Environmental Governance 

  By James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas Washington, DC:Island Press, 2006. 179 pp. ISBN: 1-59726-081-9, $40 Global Environmental Governance...

  12/01/07 by Jacobo Finkelman · More from publication

• Uranium in drinking water: low dose acts as endocrine mimic 

  Uranium, the heaviest naturally occurring element, is well known as a radioactive toxicant capable of damaging the kidneys and DNA. A new study has...

  12/01/07 by Valerie J. Brown · More from publication

• Stress reaction: ozone and co-pollutants linked with oxidation 

  Past studies have hinted that several air pollutants can cause oxidative stress in people, suggesting one mechanism behind diseases such as lung...

  12/01/07 by Bob Weinhold · More from publication

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