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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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Endometriosis: Newsfeed 1 May Utah study examines role of chemicals on our health. Doctors for decades have wondered how chemicals affect us and our health, and now a one-of-a-kind study being done at the University of Utah zeroes in on some of those toxins and their affect on a woman's reproductive system. 29 Apr New U of Utah study explores plastic container chemical dangers. A new government report asks that the FDA take another look at the effects BPA, or Bisphenol-A on humans. 20 Apr Infertility: handle with care. Can these everyday household items really be blamed for an alarming rise in infertility? More and more scientists would say yes. 16 Jan Group targets pollution sources. Pinpointing sources of river contamination is one step in monitoring the levels of toxins in the Allegheny River. 9 Nov Be afraid of what you're made of, study says. All 35 participants in the "Is It In Us?" project were found to have such chemicals in their bodies. 27 Sep The problem with plastic. During the first few years of life, when babies' cells continue to undergo "programming," exposure to certain toxic chemicals can disrupt the delicate process. 7 Sep All about plastic. Plastic, once hailed as a modern-day wonder, is now viewed by many as the bane of modern life. 3 Aug Scientists issue warning about chemical in plastic. In an unusual effort targeting a single chemical, several dozen scientists on Thursday issued a strongly worded consensus statement warning that an estrogen-like compound in plastic is likely to be causing an array of serious reproductive disorders in people. 15 Apr Developmental exposure of mice to tcdd elicits a similar uterine phenotype in adult animals as observed in women with endometriosis Dioxin exposure alters gene expression patterns in endometrial cells and may lead to endometriosis. 12 Mar Endometriosis - a woman's nightmare. The hormone oestrogen stimulates endometrial tissues. Researchers found a link between exposure to chemicals with oestrogen-mimicking effects even at very low concentrations and endometriosis. 12 Mar Exposure to environmentally relevant doses of the xenoestrogen bisphenol-a alters development of the fetal mouse mammary gland. Consistent with previous studies, exposure during fetal life to extremely low doses of the common plastic molecule, bisphenol A, causes harmful effects on mammary gland development in mice. 4 Feb Synthetic chemicals may affect two generations' ability to have children. Your ability to reproduce -- and the health of your child and even your child's children -- hinges on an exquisitely timed series of chemical reactions controlled by infinitesimally tiny amounts of hormones. And society may be scrambling that control with synthetic chemicals. 1 Feb Remco: Still a toxic subject. Ten years after the City of Willits won a court case against Remco-Abex's former owner, resulting in a long-delayed and still unfinished cleanup of the Remco site, two things are clear: The site is still not cleaned up and some people are still very angry. 18 Dec Female troubles for wildlife raise human worries. Across the U.S., female animals exposed to toxic chemicals are suffering from a flurry of health problems. As scientists examine the impact of environmental pollution, some are pondering what the results may mean to female humans. |