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October CHE Partnership Call: Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging
Mon, Oct 20, 10am PT/ 1pm ET

10/2/2008: Download the CHE Cancer Consensus Statement

9/29/08: Job announcement- Commonweal Executive Director

 

9/26/08: Now available- Recording of Sep CHE Partnership Call, From Lab to Law [MP3]

9/25/08: New document- Hormone Disruptors and Women's Health [PDF]


9/24/08: Collegium Ramazzini issues consensus statement on pesticide control policy

9/23/08: New report- Shaping Our Legacy: A report from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Summit on Reproductive Health

9/16/08: CHE LDDI releases policy consensus statement on environmental agents and neurodevelopmental disorders
 

9/12/08: New fact sheet- Industrial Carcinogens: A Cause for Concern [PDF]

9/5/08: CHE teleconference- The Future of Cancer
Download the MP3 recording


8/26/08: Cell phone advisories- Translations in Spanish, Portuguese and French

8/13/08: President's Cancer Panel resources

8/4/08: BioInitiative Report on MSN.com
More about the BioInitiative Report

7/28/08: Responses to media coverage of Pittsburgh cautionary cell phone announcement


5/20/08: The New York Times on BPA: "A Hard Plastic is Raising Hard Questions"

5/9/08: CHE featured in AARP: "The Body Toxic"

5/9/08: CHE Partner Dr. Philip Landrigan interview in Discover: "How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?"


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

4/15/08: Now available - State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment

4/18/08: Recently released - Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility)

2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 


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Our Health and the Health of the Environment How Are They Connected? What Can We Do To Improve Both?

 

References


The information on health conditions referred to in this primer comes from www.healthandenvironment.org, the website for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment. This site tracks emerging scientific evidence on links between diseases, disorders and disabilities and possible environmental causes. Peer reviewed papers on the scientific evidence on asthma, learning disabilities and breast cancer are all available at www.protectingourhealth.org, along with a full set of referenced sources. The site also has more information on the links between environmental contaminants and birth defects, brain cancer, childhood leukemia, endometriosis, infertility, and cancers of the ovary, prostate and testes.

 

Other sources for this primer are:

Jemal, A, Clegg, LX, Ward E, Ries LAG, Wu, X, Jamison, PM, et al. 2004 Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2001, with a special feature regarding survival. Cancer 101(1):3-27.


And the websites of:

The Environmental Health Strategy Center - Portland, Maine

Health Care Without Harm - Washington, DC

Washington Toxics Coalition - Seattle, Washington

Beyond Pesticides - Washington, DC

The Trust for America's Health - Washington, DC

The Breast Cancer Fund - San Francisco, California

The American Nurses Association - Washington, DC

The Science and Environmental Health Network - Ames, Iowa

The City of Santa Monica, California

The California Air Resources Board - Sacramento, California

Consorta - Schaumburg, Illinois

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics - San Francisco, California

Lowell Center for Sustainable Production - Lowell, Massachusetts

Citizens Environmental Coalition - Albany, New York

Environmental Health Sciences - White Hall, Virginia

 

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