Pesticides are used widely to control weeds and insect infestation in agricultural fields and
various pests and disease carriers (eg, mosquitoes, ticks, rats, and mice) in houses, offices …

The causes of childhood cancer have been systematically studied for several decades, but
apart from high-dose radiation and prior chemotherapy there are few or no strong external …

Background: Gestational exposure to several common agricultural pesticides can induce
developmental neurotoxicity in humans, and has been associated with developmental delay …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Evidence from animal and cell models suggests that pesticides cause a neurodegenerative
process leading to Parkinson's disease (PD). Human data are insufficient to support this …

Due to the heavy and expanding agricultural use of neurotoxic pesticides suspected to affect
dopaminergic neurons, it is imperative to closely examine the role of pesticides in the …

Background Ambient levels of pesticides (“pesticide drift”) are detectable at residences near
agricultural field sites. Objective Our goal was to evaluate the hypothesis that maternal …

Geographic information systems (GIS) are being used with increasing frequency in
environmental epidemiology studies. Reported applications include locating the study …

Parkinson disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder particularly characterized by the
loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Pesticide exposure has been …

We examined whether early gestational exposures to pesticides were associated with an
increased risk of anencephaly, spina bifida, cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP), or cleft …