BACKGROUND: During the 1980s, the incidence of primary malignant brain and other
central nervous system tumors (hereafter called brain cancer) was reported to be increasing …

Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are a group of compounds that have received much
attention recently due to their similarity with “old” classes of organohalogenated compounds …

The objective of this review is to provide an overview of recent studies demonstrating the
endocrine disrupting (ED) effects of brominated flame retardants (BFRs), while highlighting …

We propose a latent variable model for mixed discrete and continuous outcomes. The model
accommodates any mixture of outcomes from an exponential family and allows for arbitrary …

Important comorbidities recorded on outpatient claims in administrative datasets may be
missed in analyses when only inpatient care is considered. Using the comorbid conditions …

This study examines mammography-enhancing intervention studies that focus on women in
groups with historically lower rates of mammography use than the general population. …

Background: Overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer is considered a major
potential drawback of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Quantitative estimates of the …

The ubiquity of microplastics (plastic particles <5 mm, including nanosized plastics <1 µm) in
the global biosphere raises increasing concerns about their implications for human health (…

Context: Obesity and diabetes are epidemic in the European Union (EU). Exposure to
endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is increasingly recognized as a contributor, independent …

Over the last few years, increasing evidence has become available that some brominated
flame retardants (BFRs) may have endocrine-disrupting (ED) potencies. The goal of the …