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WHAT'S NEW
9/5/08: CHE teleconference- The Future of Cancer 9/4/08: DRAFT CHE Cancer Consensus Statement [PDF] 8/27/08: CHE Partnership call- From Lab to Law 9/3/08: New fact sheet- Industrial and manufacturing exposures and cancer [Word]
7/29/08: CHE LDDI policy consensus statement on environmental agents and neurodevelopmental disorders 7/28/08: Responses to media coverage of Pittsburgh cautionary cell phone announcement
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 4/18/08: Recently released - Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility) 2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. |
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The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse network of 2900 individual and organizational Partners in 45 countries and 48 states, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors. 
CHE Partner Genon Jensen: Helping People and Planet Through HEAL
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Study: Fire Retardant Chemicals More Likely to Be Found in Children- Sep 4, 2008 Riverside Press-Enterprise, California Read past articles...
Bisphenol A Tied to Lower Brain Function- Sep 4, 2008 Toronto Star, Ontario Read past articles...
New Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism- Sep 4, 2008 Scientific American Read past articles... |
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It all started on a September morning in 2003 when a drilling crew pulled up onto Laura Ward’s lawn in the tiny town of Tallevast, Florida, 38 miles south of Tampa, and started boring a hole. Continue reading...  7 Sep Flood's bitter harvest. Millions of fish of all types, and hundreds of thousands of prawns, oysters, eels, sharks and stingrays, have simply been obliterated from the Richmond River ecosystem, leaving the river almost without life. Farming practices are to blame. 7 Sep How war debris could cause cancer. Some researchers and campaigners are convinced that depleted uranium left in the environment by spent munitions causes cancer, birth defects and other ill effects in people exposed to it. Governments and the military disagree. 7 Sep CT scans can be better medicine for doctors than for patients. With the boom in CT scans has come a rising concern that the abundant use of radiation is beginning to have a subtle effect on the health of the nation. 7 Sep Louisiana losing ground in fight against storms. The loss of protective buffer of marshland muck ? eaten away by the dredging of waterways and cutting of canals ? leaves parishes vulnerable to devastation. 7 Sep Does global warming mean we're losing Lake Erie? Get ready for hot weather that will make Ohio feel like part of the Deep South, and get ready for a smaller and muddier Lake Erie. The effects of global warming are on the way, climate scientists predict. |
