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9/5/08: CHE teleconference- The Future of Cancer
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9/4/08: DRAFT CHE Cancer Consensus Statement [PDF]
 

8/27/08: CHE Partnership call- From Lab to Law
Thurs, Sept 25, at 9 AM PT/noon ET

9/3/08: New fact sheet- Industrial and manufacturing exposures and cancer [Word]


8/26/08: Cell phone advisories- Translations in Spanish, Portuguese and French

8/13/08: President's Cancer Panel resources

8/4/08: BioInitiative Report on MSN.com
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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


5/20/08: The New York Times on BPA: "A Hard Plastic is Raising Hard Questions"

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?"


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

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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CHE Partner Genon Jensen: Helping People and Planet Through HEAL

CHE Partner Genon JensenExecutive Director, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
Brussels, Belgium


I grew up on the plains of Nebraska, amid intensive agriculture and livestock production and an extended family of farmers who had a great love for the land.

Little did I know back then, as a teenager working a summer job in the corn fields, that I was being exposed without my consent to certain pesticides that could increase my risk of certain diseases, like Parkinson’s. This early life experience carved a space within my world view for environmental health issues.

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Study: Fire Retardant Chemicals More Likely to Be Found in Children- Sep 4, 2008

Riverside Press-Enterprise, California

Chemicals from fire retardants used in many household products, from car seats and mattresses to computers and curling irons, concentrate in higher levels in the bodies of young children than in their mothers, according a study released today by an environmental group.
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Bisphenol A Tied to Lower Brain Function- Sep 4, 2008

Toronto Star, Ontario

Prolonged exposure to bisphenol A, a controversial chemical commonly found in plastic bottles and food containers, may affect the brain's ability to create neurological connections needed for learning and memory, researchers say.
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New Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism- Sep 4, 2008

Scientific American

Measles are back in a big way. According to the CDC, children are increasingly not being vaccinated against the highly contagious virus because of fears that ingredients in the injection may cause autism.
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Beatrice Zeigler
Beatrice Zeigler
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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...

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EHN News
7 Sep Pollution can make you fat, study claims. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic. London Independent.

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. Sydney Morning Herald.

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. New Scientist.

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. Los Angeles Times.

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. Chicago Tribune.

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. Sandusky Register.

 

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