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Table of Contents | 117(6): Jun 2009

On the Cover

Colored transmission electron micrograph shows a methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) bacterium in cross-section.

Image Credit: Dr. Kari Lounatmaa/Photo Researchers, Inc.

 

 

 

Editorials

Key Elements of Effective and Practical Disclosure Policies for Health Science Journals

Jennifer Sass

EHP Paper of the Year, 2009

Hugh A. Tilson

 

Correspondence

Developmental Perchlorate Exposure and Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampus

Richard D. Mavis, John M. DeSesso

Developmental Perchlorate Exposure: Gilbert Responds

Mary E. Gilbert

 

News | Forum

Pharmed Fish

Kellyn S. Betts

Estrogens in a Bottle?

Julia R. Barrett

An Unexpected Deep-Sea Diver

Carol Potera

The Beat

Erin E. Dooley

Gene Variants May Predict Lung Health

Bob Weinhold

 

News | Focus

The Landscape of Antibiotic Resistance

Noah Rosenblatt-Farrell

 

News | Spheres of Influence

Aquaculture Navigates Through Troubled Waters

David A. Taylor

 

News | Science Selections

Prenatal Preview: Early Bisphenol A Exposure May Spawn Late-Life Reproductive Problems

Angela Spivey

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Legacy for Young Men: PFAAs and Human Sperm

Cynthia Washam

The Price of Progress: Modern Environmental Health Hazards in Africa

Tanya Tillett

Fat Chance? A High-Fat Diet May Offset the Effects of Developmental Neurotoxicity

Angela Spivey

 

Research Articles

Do Perfluoroalkyl Compounds Impair Human Semen Quality?

Ulla Nordström Joensen, Rossana Bossi, Henrik Leffers, Allan Astrup Jensen, Niels E. Skakkebæk, Niels Jørgensen

Editor's Summary

U.S. Funding Is Insufficient to Address the Human Health Impacts of and Public Health Responses to Climate Variability and Change

Kristie L. Ebi, John Balbus, Patrick L. Kinney, Erin Lipp, David Mills, Marie S. O’Neill, Mark L. Wilson

Editor's Summary

Biological Monitoring for Depleted Uranium Exposure in U.S. Veterans

Carrie D. Dorsey, Susan M. Engelhardt, Katherine S. Squibb, Melissa A. McDiarmid

Editor's Summary

Dopamine Transporter Genetic Variants and Pesticides in Parkinson’s Disease

Beate R. Ritz, Angelika D. Manthripragada, Sadie Costello, Sarah J. Lincoln, Matthew J. Farrer, Myles Cockburn, Jeff Bronstein

Editor's Summary

Perturbation of Defense Pathways by Low-Dose Arsenic Exposure in Zebrafish Embryos

Carolyn J. Mattingly, Thomas H. Hampton, Kimberly M. Brothers, Nina E. Griffin, Antonio Planchart

Editor's Summary

Limitations of Remotely Sensed Aerosol as a Spatial Proxy for Fine Particulate Matter

Christopher J. Paciorek, Yang Liu

Editor's Summary

Evidence That Humans Metabolize Benzene via Two Pathways

Stephen M. Rappaport, Sungkyoon Kim, Qing Lan, Roel Vermeulen, Suramya Waidyanatha, Luoping Zhang, Guilan Li, Songnian Yin, Richard B. Hayes, Nathaniel Rothman, Martyn T. Smith

Editor's Summary

The Effect of Fine and Coarse Particulate Air Pollution on Mortality: A National Analysis

Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz

Editor's Summary

Emergency Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases and the Chemical Composition of Fine Particle Air Pollution

Roger D. Peng, Michelle L. Bell, Alison S. Geyh, Aidan McDermott, Scott L. Zeger, Jonathan M. Samet, Francesca Dominici

Editor's Summary

A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study of the Chronic Lead Effect on the Basal Ganglion and Frontal and Occipital Lobes in Middle-Age Adults

Tsyh-Jyi Hsieh, Yi-Chun Chen, Chun-Wei Li, Gin-Chang Liu, Yu-Wen Chiu, Hung-Yi Chuang

Editor's Summary

Increased Expression of Histone Proteins during Estrogen-Mediated Cell Proliferation

Zheying Zhu, Robert J. Edwards, Alan R. Boobis

Editor's Summary

Postural Changes in Blood Pressure Associated with Interactions between Candidate Genes for Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Exposure to Particulate Matter

Elissa Wilker, Murray A. Mittleman, Augusto A. Litonjua, Audrey Poon, Andrea Baccarelli, Helen Suh, Robert O. Wright, David Sparrow, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz

Editor's Summary

Consumption of a High-Fat Diet in Adulthood Ameliorates the Effects of Neonatal Parathion Exposure on Acetylcholine Systems in Rat Brain Regions

Theodore A. Slotkin, T. Leon Lassiter, Ian T. Ryde, Nicola Wrench, Edward D. Levin, Frederic J. Seidler

Editor's Summary

California Wildfires of 2008: Coarse and Fine Particulate Matter Toxicity

Teresa C. Wegesser, Kent E. Pinkerton, Jerold A. Last

Editor's Summary

Modern Environmental Health Hazards: A Public Health Issue of Increasing Significance in Africa

Onyemaechi C. Nweke, William H. Sanders III

Editor's Summary

Thyroid Hormone Levels of Pregnant Inuit Women and Their Infants Exposed to Environmental Contaminants

Renée Dallaire, Gina Muckle, Éric Dewailly, Sandra W. Jacobson, Joseph L. Jacobson, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Courtney D. Sandau, Pierre Ayotte

Editor's Summary

Estimating Regional Spatial and Temporal Variability of PM2.5 Concentrations Using Satellite Data, Meteorology, and Land Use Information

Yang Liu, Christopher J. Paciorek, Petros Koutrakis

Editor's Summary

Residential Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Organochlorine Pesticides and Risk of Childhood Leukemia

Mary H. Ward, Joanne S. Colt, Catherine Metayer, Robert B. Gunier, Jay Lubin, Vonda Crouse, Marcia G. Nishioka, Peggy Reynolds, Patricia A. Buffler

Editor's Summary

Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenol A at Environmentally Relevant Doses Adversely Affects the Murine Female Reproductive Tract Later in Life

Retha R. Newbold, Wendy N. Jefferson, Elizabeth Padilla-Banks

Editor's Summary

A Review of Events That Expose Children to Elemental Mercury in the United States

Robin Lee, Dan Middleton, Kathleen Caldwell, Steve Dearwent, Steven Jones, Brian Lewis, Carolyn Monteilh, Mary Ellen Mortensen, Richard Nickle, Kenneth Orloff, Meghan Reger, John Risher, Helen Schurz Rogers, Michelle Watters

Editor's Summary

Oral Exposure to Bisphenol A Increases Dimethylbenzanthracene-Induced Mammary Cancer in Rats

Sarah Jenkins, Nandini Raghuraman, Isam Eltoum, Mark Carpenter, Jose Russo, Coral A. Lamartiniere

Editor's Summary

 

Book Review

Book Review: Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Stephen C. Stearns

 

New Books

New Books