Previous studies identify limited potential efficacy of weather derivatives in hedging agricultural exposures. In contrast to earlier studies which investigate the problem at low levels of aggregation, we find that better weather hedging...

...Medicine Center. The control study was launched in 1997 to explore the risk of female infertility because of agricultural exposures. It involved 644 women ages 18 to 35, mostly from central Wisconsin, who had either sought treatment at Marshfield...

...Medicine Center. The control study was launched in 1997 to explore the risk of female infertility because of agricultural exposures. It involved 644 women ages 18 to 35, mostly from central Wisconsin, who had either sought treatment at Marshfield...

...Various investigations have been carried out in Italy to evaluate health risks among farmers and to characterize agricultural exposures to pesticides. Recently, a pilot surveillance program for pesticiderelated illnesses has been also implemented...

...pesticide exposure and breast cancer, as well as other female cancers, provided our motivating hypothesis that agricultural exposures to pesticides may result in higher rates of breast cancer or other hormonally mediated cancers among women residing...

...record. Future meetings of the panel, to be held in Indianapolis, Charleston, S.C., and Phoenix, will focus on agricultural exposures, indoor and outdoor air pollution, water contamination and radiation exposure. The three-member panel reports...

...Norwegian children and maternal enviromnental exposures * The Agricultural Health Study, which examines how agricultural exposures affect cancer risk in farmers and their families * A study of breast cancer among 50,000 sisters of women who...

...people in their 50s-70s (Jemal et al., 2006). The strongest potential risk factors include age, radiation, and agricultural exposures (Hussein, 1994). Although multiple myeloma is an incurable disease, better understanding of its biology has...