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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) 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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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. Request a brochure 
CHE Partner Molly Jacobs, MPH: Running Toward a Sustainable Tomorrow Program Manager Read past interviews...
Why Hip Fat is Good, But Pot Bellies are Bad- May 9, 2008 Your body may store "good" fat and "bad" fat, similar to good and bad cholesterol. Continue reading... Read past articles...
Flame Retardant Found in Falcon Eggs- May 9, 2008 The eggs of peregrine falcons nesting in California's big cities have been found to be contaminated with the highest levels ever found in wildlife of a flame retardant used in consumer products. Continue reading... Read past articles...
Kids with Older Siblings More Prone to Asthma Symptoms- May 9, 2008 A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has discovered a significant link between birth order and development of asthma symptoms. Continue reading... Read past articles... |
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Margaret L. Williams was raised at 27 East Pearl Street in Pensacola, Florida in a house next to the railroad tracks and wedged between two heavily polluting factories.
Continue reading...  9 May U.N. pressures Myanmar to allow aid. With up to 1.5 million people in Myanmar now believed to be facing the threat of starvation and disease United Nations officials all but demanded Thursday that the government open its doors to supplies and aid workers. 9 May A call for criminal inquiry on mine collapse. Senior staff at Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine, where nine miners died last August, withheld information from federal officials that could have prevented the disaster and should face a criminal inquiry. 9 May Evangelicals press to fight global warming. When the Senate takes up legislation next month to confront global warming, environmental groups will have some fervent new allies: evangelicals and other Christian activists. 9 May More problems with plastics. Human exposure to hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals, which can leach from a slew of consumer products, is continuous and widespread. 9 May Governor hopefuls urge investigations. Three major-party gubernatorial candidates called Thursday for an aggressive investigation into the causes of cancer that occurs in some Delaware communities above the state average. |
