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New Partnership Call: Pediatric Integrative Health: Approaches to Optimizing "Whole Child" Wellness
Mon, Sept 21

New Symposium: Children First: Promoting Ecological Health for the Whole Child
October 1, 2010, UCSF
Register TODAY! Limited seating
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New CHE Science Cafe Call: Living Downstream: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber and Chanda Chevannes
Thurs, Oct 12

8/25/10: MP3 recording available: CHE EMF call: SmartMeters

8/12/10: MP3 recording available: On the Ground in the Gulf Coast: A conversation with Wilma Subra and Michael Lerner

7/30/10: MP3 recording available: Human Health Effects of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill: A Summary of the IOM Workshop

6/10/10: MP3 recording available: Nanotechnology: A New Chapter in Environmental Health Sciences

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Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging - Oct 2008

Julia R. Barrett
Environmental Health Perspectives

Age-related chronic diseases will put unprecedented stress on U.S. society with a near-doubling of the number of people aged 65 years and older by 2030, according to the U.S. Administration on Aging. These diseases are also complex. An October 2008 report, Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases, now describes in greater detail how a lifetime of environmental factors from conception onward shapes our health in our later years.

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Access the report: www.AgeHealthy.org

 

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