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Pyrimethanil and chlorpyrifos air concentrations and pregnant women’s urinary metabolites in the Infants’ Environmental Health Study (ISA), Costa Rica

Environment International, 2022
Background: Only few studies have compared environmental pesticide air concentrations with specific urinary metabolites to evaluate pathways of exposure.
Andrew Giffin, Jane A. Hoppin, Leonel Córdoba, Karla Solano-Díaz, Clemens Ruepert, Jorge Peñaloza-Castañeda, Christian Lindh, Brian J. Reich, Berna van Wendel de Joode   +8 more
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The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare coverage and access in racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States

Geospatial Health, 2023
This study described spatiotemporal changes in health insurance coverage, healthcare access, and reasons for non-insurance among racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic using four national survey datasets ...
Lauren Freelander, David S. Rickless, Corey Anderson, Frank Curriero, Sarah Rockhill, Amir Mirsajedin, Caleb J. Colón, Jasmine Lusane, Alexander Vigo-Valentín, David Wong   +9 more
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Poison, plants and Palaeolithic hunters. An analytical method to investigate the presence of plant poison on archaeological artefacts [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper we present the development of a method for the detection of toxic substances on ancient arrow points. The aim is to go back in time until the Palaeolithic period in order to determine if poisonous substances were used to enhance the hunting
Christian C. Yde (1583899), Hanne Christine Bertram (1583902), Henrik Max Jensen (1583905), Mette S. Schmedes (1583911), Santosh Lamichhane (1583908), Sebastian Meier (1328250)   +5 more
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Transforming geographic scale: a comparison of combined population and areal weighting to other interpolation methods

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2017
Background Transforming spatial data from one scale to another is a challenge in geographic analysis. As part of a larger, primary study to determine a possible association between travel barriers to pediatric cancer facilities and adolescent cancer ...
Elaine Hallisey, Eric Tai, Andrew Berens, Grete Wilt, Lucy Peipins, Brian Lewis, Shannon Graham, Barry Flanagan, Natasha Buchanan Lunsford   +8 more
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Breast cancer risk and serum levels of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances: a case-control study nested in the California Teachers Study

Environmental Health, 2018
Background Per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large family of synthetic chemicals, some of which are mammary toxicants and endocrine disruptors. Their potential as breast carcinogens is unclear.
Susan Hurley, Debbie Goldberg, Miaomiao Wang, June-Soo Park, Myrto Petreas, Leslie Bernstein, Hoda Anton-Culver, David O. Nelson, Peggy Reynolds   +8 more
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Obesogenic effect of Bisphenol P on mice via altering the metabolic pathways

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
Bisphenol P (BPP), structurally similar to bisphenol A, is commonly identified in the samples of environment, food, and humans. Unfortunately, very little information is currently available on adverse effects of BPP. The obesogenic effects and underlying
Wenjuan Zhang, Xuerui Ma, Yijia Zhang, Wanjing Tong, Xing Zhang, Yong Liang, Maoyong Song   +6 more
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Workflow for predictive risk assessments of UVCBs: cheminformatics library design, QSAR, and read-across approaches applied to complex mixtures of metal naphthenates

Frontiers in Toxicology
Substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, and biological materials (UVCBs) are commonly found in the environment. However, assessing their human toxicological risk is challenging due to their variable composition and many ...
A. J. Prussia, C. Welsh, T. S. Somers, P. Ruiz   +3 more
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Solid-phase microextraction for bioconcentration studies according to OECD TG 305 [PDF]

, 2012
An important aim of the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use is the identification of (very) persistent, (very) bioaccumulative, and toxic substances.
Böhm, Leonard, Düring, Rolf-Alexander, Schlechtriem, Christian   +2 more
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Understanding community resilience during the drinking water contamination event on Oahu, Hawaii, 2021–2022: a mixed mode approach

BMC Public Health
Background A petroleum leak into the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam water system on Oahu, Hawaii in November 2021 contaminated the drinking water of approximately 93,000 users, causing many to relocate for months. Perceptions of health and wellbeing were
Vidisha Parasram, Amanda R. Smith, Michele L. F. Bolduc, Jamie Rayman, Alex Poniatowski, Nicole Mintz, Madeline Jarvis, Alyssa N. Troeschel, Shanna Miko, Krishna Surasi, Charles Edge, Benjamin Gerhardstein, Diana Felton, Maureen F. Orr   +13 more
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Dataset for human sensitivity to chemicals during development of motor function

Data in Brief, 2016
The authors reviewed human data related to motor development following exposure to a subset of chemicals thoroughly reviewed in Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profiles and Addenda.
Susan Z. Ingber, Hana R. Pohl
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