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WHAT'S NEW
Recently Released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility) Join CHE Alaska on May 28 for a teleconference on "The Global Transport of Persistent Chemicals to the Arctic" 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?"
4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment 2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. 9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields
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Findings from the Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer ReportJanuary 17, 2008This call was a discussion of the findings of the recently released 2007 Edition of Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer report, which was commissioned by CHE Cancer. Read the report. The report shows mounting evidence that unintentional exposures to toxins in our workplaces and environments contribute to the nearly 1.5 million new cases of cancer in the U.S. each year. The moderator of this call was Michael Lerner, President of Commonweal, and we heard comments from Steve Wing, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health. Featured Presenters:
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