The Leipziger allergy risk study (LARS) investigated, during a period of five years, the influence of a typical indoor contaminant burden on the development of allergies and upper respiratory tract infections in children with an allergy-risk. During the third year of life, biomonitoring with the focus on passive smoking was carried out. Therefore, typical tobacco smoke related indoor volatile o...

What are the objectives of 21st century healthcare? Five fundamental pillars and presuppositions appear to underscore the provision of clinical healthcare, whether conventional or alternative: (i) Healthcare should genuinely assist individuals (a) to prevent illness through health education; (b) to overcome and recover from disease and suffering when possible; (c) to receive compassionate and o...

-Enhancement of CCNU cytotoxicity by misonidazole (MISO) was studied in three tumours and two normal tissues in the mouse. The 3 experimental tumours (SCCVII/St, EMT6 and KHT) showed very different sensitivities to CCNU alone, but MISO enhanced the cell killing in ech case. The effect was not always dose-modifying, so that the CCNU dose range for the greatest enhancement was different in each o...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 2 Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, Division of Environmental Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY. 3 Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 4 Center for Environmental Health and Technology, Brown University, Provi...

Addresses: 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. 2 Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of Lund, Sweden. 3 IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Ltd. BOX 210 60, SE-100 31 Stockholm Sweden. 4 Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Centre for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Contro...

-Cr(III) and Cr(VI) compounds of varying solubilities have been tested in vitro for their ability to inhibit cell growth and nucleic acid and protein syntheses in BHK cells, to induce alterations in the mitotic cycle in HEp cells, and to increase the frequency of chromosomal aberrations and sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) in CHO cells. All Cr(VI) compounds, and particularly those containing so...

Marléne Isaksson1, Annica Inerot2, Carola Lidén3,4, Magnus Lindberg5, Mihaly Matura3,4, Halvor Möller1, Berndt Stenberg6 and Magnus Bruze1 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö SE-205 02, Sweden, 2Department of Dermatology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg SE-413 45, Sweden, 3 Institute of Environmental Medicine, ...

Manabu Shibasaki, Thad E. Wilson, and Craig G. Crandall Department of Environmental Health, Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan; Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology and of Dermatology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Dallas; and Department of Internal Medicine, Universi...