When it comes to industrial lead processing, The Doe Run Company

Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Oregon, are two cities that by all accounts have well-run water utilities and health departments. Both have also had recurring problems with lead in tap water, yet both

Population studies suggest that persons with diabetes are more sensitive to the effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution. However, the biological mechanisms of a possible prothrombotic effect underlying this enhanced susceptibility remain largely unknown. The authors hypothesized that exposure to PM causes prothrombotic changes in persons with diabetes, possibly via systemic inflammation.

The intricate, intertwined forces driving global climate change are mirrored by similar complexity in the human response to it. That makes it nearly impossible to anticipate the stance of any one group based solely on a label such as nationality, race, or economic class.

Mercury has been investigated as a possible cause of autism, but its association with autism remains uncertain. Hertz-Picciotto et al.

Adverse health effects of asbestos have prompted many countries to ban its use, but use and importation continues in many low income and developing countries. Le et al. studied the relationship between national economic development and asbestos use among 135 countries that used asbestos at any time during 19202003. Worldwide asbestos use data were obtained from the U.S.

Oseltamivir phosphate (OP; Tamiflu) has been used to treat and prevent H1N1 influenza. OP is primarily excreted in urine as oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), the active form of the drug, and OC may be subsequently released into the environment via sewage treatment plant (STP) wastewater. Ghosh et al.

Air quality control measures to reduce ambient air pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games caused remarkable but transient declines in particulate matter (PM) air pollution. Wu et al. (p. 87) report on a study of the effects of traffic-related PM with an aerodynamic diameter ? 2.5

Heat advisories provide advanced warning of dangerously hot weather, but criteria used to trigger alerts have not been systematically evaluated. Metzger et al.

Perchlorate is an environmental contaminant associated with the manufacture or use of aerospace fuels, explosives, and hypochlorite water disinfection products. Perchlorate inhibits iodide transport into the thyroid gland, which may reduce the synthesis of thyroid hormones critical to normal neurologic development.