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May 21, 2012
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CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks
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Fertility/Reproductive Health Publications & Resources
Environmental Health presentations - Women of the World - March 3, 2012
Environmental Health Healthy Pregnancy Healthy Home Healthy Food
Preventing Exposures to Environmental Hazards

Prenatal Assessment Green Choices Toxic Matters Green Parenting video
Infertility and Related Reproductive Disorders
by Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
First published in May 2003, and up-dated in October 2011, the article summarizes scientific studies of recent trends in fertility, causes of infertility and concerns about early-life environmental exposures and fertility. This document has undergone peer-review by an independent group of scientific experts in the field.
Girl, Disrupted
This report, intended for a lay audience, summarizes the key outcomes of the Women’s Reproductive Health and the Environment Workshop held in January 2008; specifically, how endocrine (hormone) disruptors impact female reproductive health at different stages of life.
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Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment
This report summarizes reproductive health, fertility and the environment as discussed at the UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertilty in January 2007. This report, from the University of California, San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, is also available in Spanish.
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Challenged Conceptions: Environmental Chemicals and Fertility
This report, intended for lay audiences, summarizes a meeting of a multidisciplinary group of experts at the Vallombrosa Retreat Center in February 2005. The retreat's goal was to assess what
the science tells us about the contribution of environmental contaminants to human infertility and associated health conditions.
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Infertility: What We Know
This article summarizes causes of infertility, including environmental contributors, published in 2003.
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