Sarcoidosis may be affected by sex, race, and age. A Case Control Etiologic Study of
Sarcoidosis (ACCESS) enrolled 736 patients with sarcoidosis within 6 mo of diagnosis from 10 …

Despite the considerable progress in the classification of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
(IIPs), the lack of an international standard has resulted in variable and confusing …

BACKGROUND: Technological advances (eg directional drilling, hydraulic fracturing), have
led to increases in unconventional natural gas development (NGD), raising questions about …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Lee S. Newman, MD, MA,
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Medical and …

The association of endophytic bacteria with their plant hosts has a beneficial effect for many
different plant species. Our goal is to identify endophytic bacteria that improve the biomass …

The notion that large inocula of salmonellae are necessary to induce illness in humans is
based on the results of studies involving volunteers. However, investigations of outbreaks of …

Although many plant-associated bacteria have beneficial effects on their host, their importance
during plant growth and development is still underestimated. A better understanding of …

Concerns about the adequacy of both the methodology and behavioral criteria employed in
much of the past research on attitude-behavior consistency prompted this field experiment. …

Poplar trees were found to be capable of taking up trichloroethylene (TCE) and degrading it
to several known metabolic products: trichloroethanol, trichloroacetic acid, and dichloracetic …

Despite reports of familial clustering of sarcoidosis, little empirical evidence exists that disease
risk in family members of sarcoidosis cases is greater than that in the general population. …