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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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Breast Cancer: Newsfeed
5 Jul Give your home a green clean. You?ll probably be surprised to learn that your house isn?t actually clean. In fact, the air in it is about two to five times more polluted than the air outside ? due entirely to the amount of chemicals in your everyday cleaning products. 5 Jul Don't run from the sun's Vitamin D benefits, experts say. Here's a worry to cloud your carefree Fourth of July weekend fun: Is that sunblock you're slathering on to protect you from skin cancer actually making you prone to other diseases from a shortage of Vitamin D? 5 Jul Calls to ban poison found in beef. The Government is under pressure to ban a highly toxic pesticide that has turned up in beef exports. 5 Jul Shining a light on genetic testing. Arizonans can buy tests that predict whether they are likely to get cancer, develop thinking problems or even go bald. 4 Jul Insecticide found in beef sent to S Korea. Beef exports to South Korea, New Zealand's second-biggest market, may be at risk after the discovery of insecticide contamination. 4 Jul Some seek guidelines to reflect Vitamin D's benefits. A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate over whether federal guidelines for the "sunshine vitamin" are outdated, leaving millions vulnerable to cancer and other ailments. 4 Jul Call to ban insecticide afer beef exports blocked. The Green Party is calling for the Government to ban an insecticide after South Korea blocked further imports of beef from a processing plant in Waikato. 3 Jul A skin-deep dilemma: Sunscreen. Is sunscreen essential body armor against cancer and aging? Or is it another assault on your skin? Here's how to know what's tops in the tube. 3 Jul The dark side of dust. Those dust bunnies hiding under your toddler's bed are scarier than you might think. Once viewed as just a sign of unambitious housekeeping, dust has a dark side. 3 Jul Can bovine growth hormone help slow global warming?. Industry scientists say bovine growth hormone can by reducing the number of greenhouse-gas-emitting cows as it increases the remaining ruminants' output. 2 Jul Cancers linked to lifestyle still on rise, especially in Scotland. Cancers linked to lifestyle are rising across much of Europe, with Scotland seeing some of the highest rates of the disease, research suggested yesterday. 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 Baby to escape hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened out from the woman?s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a high chance of developing the cancer. 1 Jul Fireworks may be greener this year. Roman candles and roadside flares typically use potassium perchlorate to speed up the fuel-burning process that drives them. 30 Jun Vitamin deficient. A recent study, investigating cancer among blacks and low-income adults in Southern states, found a striking difference in the numbers of black adults who have vitamin D deficiency compared to whites - even after controlling for factors such as sun exposure and diet. |