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A Surveillance Study of Health Effects Associated with Cleanup of a Hazardous Waste Site -- In 1999, CDPH conducted a surveillance study to assess whether illnesses were associated with cleanup activities at the Ralph Gray Trucking Company Site in Westminster, Orange County....

Autism in relation to Hazardous and Criteria Air Pollutants -- In this project, existing databases are linked to examine possible environmental factors related to autism....

Border Asthma and Allergies Study (BASTA), Imperial County -- In May 2005, the California Department of Public Health conducted a school-based respiratory health survey in Imperial County, California....

Breast Cancer Among Teachers Exposed to Electro-Magnetic Fields -- Breast cancer, the leading cancer in women, is a disease for which the established risk factors still explain only a small fraction of the population attributable risk....

Breast Cancer in California Flight Attendants -- Health problems faced by flight personnel have been a concern of workforce members for some time, but have been little studied by the scientific community....

Breast Cancer in California Teachers - Regional Variations -- BACKGROUND: Observed regional differences in breast cancer incidence could provide valuable clues to the etiology of this disease....

Childhood Asthma in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region: Trends in Hospitalizations and Air Quality -- EHIB examined air quality data from 1983 to 1994 in two counties on the US-Mexico border to investigate trends in childhood asthma hospitalizations....

Childhood Cancer - Etiologic Clues Using Geographic Information Systems -- Little is known about the causes of childhood cancers, but there has been increasing public concern that environmental toxicants may contribute to the risk of developing this heterogeneous group of...

Cohort Study of Girls Nutrition, Environment and Tanner stage -- This project is a renewal of the prior 7-year longitudinal study of factors that affect age at pubertal development in girls and is part of the Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Program (BCERP),....

Community Vulnerabilities and Resiliencies to Heat Waves -- California has suffered a number of heat waves (HW) which have resulted in considerable morbidity and mortality....

Dioxins in adipose tissue and risk of breast cancer -- Objective: To evaluate the breast cancer risk associated with body burden levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)....

Early Markers for Autism Study (EMA) -- The goal of the study is to look for early biologic markers (also called biomarkers) for autism....

Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Puberty -- This project is part of the larger Bay Area Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Center (BCERC) at UCSF, which includes animal and epidemiological studies....

Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposures in California Teachers Study Cohort -- There is strong evidence that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) poses a hazard to human health....

Exposure Insights Using GIS in a Case-Control Study -- Little is known about the causes of childhood leukemia, but there is considerable public concern about the potential contribution of environmental toxicants....

Health study on asthma and children -- In April 2005, CDHS and ATSDR released the findings from a health study of schoolchildren....

Organochlorine Body Burden in Women With and Without Breast Cancer -- Recently considerable concern has focused on the relationship between environmental contaminants and the incidence of breast cancer....

Oroville pancreatic cancer investigation -- In 2008, the California Cancer Registry in the California Department of Public Health, in response to community concerns, confirmed that there was an elevated rate of pancreatic cancer in the Oroville...

Perchlorate in Drinking Water and Newborn Thyroid Function -- Historic waste disposal practices at the Aerojet-General Corporation facility in Rancho Cordova contaminated some of that city's underground drinking water supply with perchlorate, starting in the late...

Regional Variations in Breast Cancer Rates in California -- Geographic location is among the greatest predictors of breast cancer incidence, with more than a ten-fold difference among regions of the world....

Richmond Sulfuric Acid Interview Study -- Describes the public health impact and the characteristics of the illnesses suffered as a consequence of a sudden uncontrolled venting of oleum from a railroad tank car during unloading....

San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study -- For many years, studies have shown that fish commonly caught in San Francisco Bay contain chemicals like mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)....

Sex Ratio Among California Births, 1960-1996 -- The male sex ratio at birth (or the proportion of births in a population that is male) has been suggested as a sentinel environmental health indicator....

Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) -- The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) is a ground-breaking study....

The California Autism Twin Study (CATS) -- The California Autism Twin Study (CATS) seeks to study the behavior and learning styles of children with autism and their twins....