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Study revealign true causes of cholera epidemic in Peru in 1991: a public health infrastructure not up to the task of averting a waterborne epidemic of bacterial disease....

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Describes the development and use of "environmental indicators" as a way for residents of Oakland to measure how their community is doing, year by year....

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Survey of U.S. housing to determine lead hazards....

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Landmark study showing that children without gross symptoms of lead poisoning could nevertheless have their mental capacities degraded by exposure to low levels of lead....

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Study intended to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and costs of pediatric disease in U.S. children....

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This study compared two groups of youngsters -- 194 who had been adjudicated as delinquents by a court, and 146 nondelinquent controls. The delinquent group had an average level of toxic lead in their blood that was 7 times as high the control group's level....

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Landmark study of 301 school boys, comparing toxic lead in their bones to behavior (attention, aggression, and delinquency) at ages 7 and 11....

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Study reveals that ras are unusually sensitive to the effects of exposure to low levels of bisphenol A (commonly thought to be very weakly estrogenic) during pregnancy and that effects are measurable in their offspring. In other words, this study reveals that TIMING of exposure is critical....

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Fetal alcohol syndrome seems to depend upon timing of exposure to alcohol during gestation....

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Health risk assessment of the Cornell-Dublier superfund site in South Plainfield, N.J....