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WHAT'S NEW
RSVP now for the next CHE Partnership Call - Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment
Now available: MP3 recording and useful resources from the recent call on environmental impacts on autoimmune diseases - July 1, 2008
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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Brain Cancer: Newsfeed
4 Jul Storm over Cape Cod. Oyster Harbours is ground zero in a very uncivil war in which some of the wealthiest and most famous people in the country have joined forces with one of America's dirtiest businesses ? the coal industry ? to block an ambitious clean-energy project. 4 Jul Does herpes cause brain cancer? The deadliest and most common type of brain cancer has a strange bedfellow: cytomegalovirus, a kind of herpes present in about 80 percent of the U.S. population. Now scientists are exploiting this coincidence to treat the cancer with a vaccine that targets the virus and slows tumor regrowth. 2 Jul Miracle diet from the Med. Adopting elements of a Mediterranean-style diet, which is high in fruit and vegetables and low on red meat and dairy produce, can reduce the risk of cancer by almost a quarter, according to a major study of people's eating habits. 1 Jul Host of health benefits attributed to sunlight. The fiery ball of radiation that climbs into the sky every morning can be just as good for your health as it is damaging. In fact, some experts now believe that the sun's rays provide more benefit than harm--provided you get the right dose. 1 Jul Diabetes: underrated, insidious and deadly. The disconnect between perception and reality in the health risks of diabetes is worrisome at a time when national diabetes rates are surging. Almost 25 percent of those aged 60 and older had diabetes in 2007. 1 Jul The health price of plastics. Many of us have simmerings of concern that plastic may be exposing us to harmful chemicals when it is heated, boiled, microwaved, frozen, left in the baking sun, dishwashed, scrubbed, chewed on, or dropped for the umpteenth time. 1 Jul Mobiles pose no health risk : study. One in four Germans who worry that mobile phones and their transmission towers are health hazards can now relax following studies coordinated by the Berlin-based Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). 30 Jun Drug makers say FDA safety focus is slowing new-medicine pipeline. Over the years, the FDA's approach to drug safety has swung like a pendulum. Now, pharmaceutical companies are struggling to adjust to the FDA's tougher stance. 30 Jun Researchers discover promising cancer drug. A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, US researchers reported on Sunday. 29 Jun Old factory is suspected in brain tumor outbreak. State regulators will examine a shuttered manufacturing plant as a possible source of environmental contaminants that may be behind an outbreak of tumors among northwest Missouri residents. 28 Jun Cancer risk from cellphone use is still a matter for study. Scientists still can't say with certainty that placing a cellphone against the head is completely safe, especially for heavy users and people who began using the devices as children. 28 Jun Ch-ch-ch-changes. If you find yourself becoming more like your parents, don't blame it just on your genes. Epigenetics may be responsible too. 28 Jun Genetically engineered viruses battle cancer. In the last few years, scientists have been genetically engineering various viruses so they attack cancer cells but leave healthy cells alone. 28 Jun Waste forum fails to agree on ship scrapping facilities. An international conference on toxic waste ended here Friday, failing to reach agreement on a proposal to require Basel Convention countries to set up eco-friendly ship dismantling facilities by 2012. |