Urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine as a biomarker of oxidative DNA damage in workers exposed to fine particulates - Research
Environmental Health Perspectives - May 1, 2004, by Jee Young Kim,
Sutapa Mukherjee,
Long Ngo,
David C. Christiani
Residual oil fly ash (ROFA) is a chemically complex mixture of compounds, including metals that are potentially carcinogenic because of their ability to cause oxidative injury. In this study, we investigated the association between exposure to particulate matter with an a... (Read More)
An Air that Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Publishers Weekly - January 12, 2004, by Rosenthal, Ken
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Poisoning our food - Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret - Book Review
Monthly Review - December 1, 2003, by Eddie J. Girdner
Duff Wilson, Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 322 pages, hardcover $26, paperback $13.95.
"The modus operandi is to lie and deny."--Tom Witte
Any food that we buy today may have bee... (Read More)
Poisoning our food - Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret - Book Review
Monthly Review - December 1, 2003, by Eddie J. Girdner
Definition
Kidney cancer is a disease in which the cells in certain tissues of the kidney start to grow uncontrollably and form tumors. Renal cell carcinoma, sometimes referred to as hypernephroma, occurs in the cells lining the kidneys (epithelial cells). It is the most co... (Read More)
Excessive awareness is driving us nuts - Parting Thoughts - news coverage and information overload - Editorial
USA Today (Magazine) - November 1, 2003, by Gerald F. Kreyche
I CAN'T RECALL WHO, but in a fit of frustration, one of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's characters blurts out, "Too much consciousness is a disease--a thorough-going disease." Although we recognize this as a redundancy, it was meant to point to something that plagues our world. Colu... (Read More)
Aging research: the future face of environmental health - Focus
Environmental Health Perspectives - November 1, 2003, by Tina Adler
With the baby boom generation quickly becoming the geriatric generation, getting old is practically trendy these days. In 1900, the over-65 age bracket accounted for only 4.1% of the population, according to the nonprofit Population Research Center. That figure doubled by... (Read More)
Offer non-toxic ammo for safe and healthy shooting - Arms and the Woman
Shooting Industry - October 1, 2003, by Lisa Parsons Wraith
Toxic chemicals. When most of us hear those words we think of asbestos, industrial pollution, nuclear sites and some household products. We usually don't think of toxic chemicals in conjunction with a recreational activity. However, since lead is an integral part of ammun... (Read More)
Short Cuts
Grounds Maintenance - October 1, 2003
NYAFEC GAINS SOLID FOOTHOLD IN SHAPING NEW YORK PESTICIDE POLICIES
In just nine months, the New York Alliance For Environmental Concerns (NYAFEC) already is realizing the benefits of joining separate environmental horticultural industry groups together to pursue common ... (Read More)
HUD & Battelle Laboratories Report Validates Encapsulation as Permanent Lead-Based Paint Abatement Method
Business Wire - August 19, 2003
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2003
Government Agency Recommends Use of Encapsulants To Help Minimize Risk of Childhood Lead Poisoning
A recent study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (... (Read More)
Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific - Children's Health Review
Environmental Health Perspectives - August 1, 2003, by William A. Suk,
Kuhnying Mathuros Ruchirawat,
Kalpana Balakrishnan,
Martha Berger,
David Carpenter,
Terri Damstra,
Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino,
David Koh,
Philip J. Landrigan,
Irma Makalinao,
Pe
The Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions contain half of the world's children and are among the most rapidly industrializing regions of the globe. Environmental threats to children's health are widespread and are multiplying as nations in the area undergo industrial... (Read More)
The invisible friend: investors are irresponsible. Corporations are amoral. Harry Glasbeek puts two and two together - The Legal Fiction
New Internationalist - July 1, 2003, by Harry Glasbeek
PUBLICLY TRADED corporations: they are everywhere. They talk to us. They support political causes, parties and politicians. They sponsor opera, ballet, theatre, tennis, football, hospitals and universities. They are renaissance operations. They employ us. They sack us. Th... (Read More)
Excavating the body politic: an interview with Conrad Atkinson - Interview
Art Journal - June 22, 2003, by Antony Hudek
Antony Hudek: Could you introduce Excavated Mutilations, your Courtauld Gallery exhibition?
Conrad Atkinson: The project started because I was on sabbatical from the University of California at Davis. Eric Fernie, [then] director of the Courtauld Institute, and I met, a... (Read More)
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