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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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Infertility: Newsfeed 5 Jul Australia Zoo expert says disease could wipe out koalas. The cute koala is an iconic Queensland image - but conservationists fear the creature could become virtually extinct in the state's southeast by 2023. 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. 1 Jul QU-HMC study links excessive smoking to low sperm quality. Excessive cigarette smoking may have a major role in altering sperm quality, thereby adversely affecting male reproductive health, a study conducted by Qatar University in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation has indicated. 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 Look, mom?no cavities! Some communities have scaled back the amount of fluoride added to their water, and scientists are trying to determine the optimum dose. But there's next to zero evidence that suggests we should stop fluoridating. 29 Jun US issues health warning over mercury fillings. They're in millions of mouths worldwide, but have been linked to heart disease and Alzheimer's. Now a report concedes they may have a toxic effect on the body. 29 Jun The least green country on earth. What happens when environmental weakness, poverty and poor governance collide. Niger lands at the bottom of international ranking. 29 Jun County right to stop use of herbicides. The decision was not arbitrary ? the issue of spraying poisons on our public roads has been deliberated by the board many times and for many years. 28 Jun Forest invades tundra, and the new tenants could aggravate global warming. Encroaching conifer forests -- now growing above the Arctic Circle -- threaten to further spike the far North's already low-grade fever. 28 Jun Lead allowed to stay in lipstick. A bill that would have banned lead in lipstick in California has failed. The bill (Senate Bill 1712, sponsored by Sen. Carole Migden D-San Francisco) would have required companies to lower the amount of lead in lipstick. 27 Jun 5.4 million people killed by tobacco annually. African Regional Meeting on Tobacco Control Building for Africa, is underway in Accra to brainstorm on strategies to curb the about 5.4 million global annual deaths related to tobacco. 24 Jun How healthy is your plastic water bottle? Health news headlines are yelping about bisphenol-A, a suddenly scary component of plastic that's hiding in plain sight in polycarbonate water bottles, water pitchers, baby bottles and even liners in canned foods. 22 Jun Nitro dioxin report flawed. Federal and state officials used flawed calculations in a 2005 report that assured Nitro residents that dioxin levels in school buildings and a community center do not pose a health risk, according to government records recently made public. 20 Jun It won't feed the starving and it creates more poverty. so why are we told GM food is the answer? The saying goes, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good - and the increasing hunger spreading around the globe as the world food crisis takes hold is sending the genetically modified food lobby smiling all the way to the seed bank. |