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Learning Curve: Putting Healthy School Principles into Pr...
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The H-shape design planned for New York City’s new Public School 109, as described by The New York Times, allowed for large courtyards shielded from neighbors’ noise for play and recreation, windows that open onto the courtyards to provide light and air, and thoroughly ventilated wardrobes to dry...
Environmental Factors in Birth Defects: What We Need to Know
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Given the myriad steps involved in fetal growth, each presenting the opportunity for developmental / mischief, it is not surprising that more than 7,000 kinds of birth defects are known to occur. The causes of birth defects remain largely a mystery, however, although a few culprits have been identi...
Learning Curve: Putting Healthy School Principles into Pr...
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The H-shape design planned for New York City’s new Public School 109, as described by The New York Times, allowed for large courtyards shielded from neighbors’ noise for play and recreation, windows that open onto the courtyards to provide light and air, and thoroughly ventilated wardrobes to dry...
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Book Review: Environmental Health and Child Survival: Epi...
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As the developing world industrializes, it is likely to experience an epidemiologic transition not unlike what has occurred in the United States and other countries in the developed world, with increasing / prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions such as asthma and neurodevelopmental disorde...
Are We Really Addressing the Core of Children’s Environme...
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More than 3 million children < 5 years of age die each year from environment-related conditions, making the environment one of the most critical contributors to the > 10 million child deaths annually throughout the world [World Health Organization (WHO) 2005]. Some factors of susceptibility, incl...
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Mass Lead Poisoning in Dakar: Battery Recycling Exacts a Heavy Toll, Variable Vulnerability: Genotype Determines Timing of PON1 Capability to Detoxify Pesticides, Disinfection By-Products and Congenital Anomalies: Evidence Still Inconclusive, PBDEs in Diet: Meat Fat a Leading Source
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Consumer Protection Act Sees Uneven Launch, Childhood Leukemia and Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants, Sweeteners Persist in Waterways, Next Course in Organic Debate
Exposure to Hydroxylated Polychlorinated Biphenyls (OH-PC...
Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs), unlike PCBs, are in general readily excreted yet are still detected in humans and animals. Active transport of OH-PCBs across the placenta and hydroxylation of PCBs by the fetus suggest the potential for greater impact on the fetus compared with t...
Do Human Milk Concentrations of Persistent Organic Chemic...
Conventional wisdom regarding exposures to persistent organic chemicals via breast-feeding assumes that concentrations decline over the course of lactation and that the mother’s body burden reflects her cumulative lifetime exposure. Two important implications stemming from these lines of thought ...
Lead Exposure and Behavior among Young Children in Chenna...
Lead exposure has long been associated with deficits in IQ among children. However, few studies have assessed the impact of lead on specific domains of behavior and cognition.
Predictors of Serum Dioxins and PCBs among Peripubertal R...
Although sources and routes of exposure to dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been studied, information regarding exposure among children is limited. Breast-feeding and diet are two important contributors to early life exposure. To further understand other significant contributors ...
Association of Traffic-Related Air Pollution with Childre...
With the increase of motor vehicles, ambient air pollution related to traffic exhaust has become an important environmental issue in China. Because of their fast growth and development, / children are more susceptible to ambient air pollution exposure. Many chemicals from traffic exhaust, such as c...
Developmental Changes in PON1 Enzyme Activity in Young Ch...
Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is an enzyme that detoxifies activated organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) and is also involved in oxidative stress pathways.
Drinking-Water Herbicide Exposure in Indiana and Prevalen...
Atrazine and other corn herbicides are routinely detected in drinking water. Two studies on potential association of atrazine with small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and preterm birth prevalence found inconsistent results. Moreover, these studies did not control for individual-level potential confou...
Evidence for Dose-Additive Effects of Pyrethroids on Moto...
Pyrethroids are neurotoxic insecticides used in a variety of indoor and outdoor applications. / Previous research characterized the acute dose–effect functions for 11 pyrethroids administered orally in corn oil (1 mL/kg) based on assessment of motor activity.
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