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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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Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders: Newsfeed 30 Aug With child, with cancer. Breast-cancer treatment has made huge strides since then, and a considerable amount of research shows that termination does not improve a pregnant woman?s prognosis. Yet many pregnant women are still refused treatment unless they abort. 30 Aug Child immunization: Safe or risky? As the month of August, National Immunization Awareness Month, comes to a close and a new school year quickly approaches, parents are considering the pros and cons of immunizing their children. 19 Aug Autistic kids face asbestos at Rockaways elementary school. They knew their New York City school was dilapidated. They didn't know it might be dangerous. 1 Aug Cement kilns release 2 times more mercury than EPA thinks. Cement plants release more than two-times as much toxic mercury as the EPA estimates, according to a study by two watchdog groups. 1 Aug Iowa students must get dental, lead screenings. Iowa law now mandates that all kindergarten and freshman students get a dental screening. 1 Aug Perils of the new pesticides. Pyrethrins, extracted from the chrysanthemum plant, and their synthetic relatives, pyrethroids, have exploded in popularity over the last decade. 27 Jul New frontiers in autism research. Some advocates believe the federal government's willingness to study the benefits of chelation treatments may signal a turning point in the fight against autism. 23 Jul Maine group targeting car toxins. The Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine is counting on Maine lawmakers to speed efforts to replace dangerous chemicals in cars with safer alternatives and expand consumer information when toxic chemicals are present. 21 Jul Rise in number of children diagnosed with autism makes parents wary. With autism spectrum disorders now diagnosed in 1 out of 150 children nationally and 1 in 94 in New Jersey, rare is the parent who isn't aware of autism. 21 Jul Mother's risks last child's lifetime. Wisconsin leads the nation in reported drinking among women of childbearing age. 21 Jul Thousands of N.J. children suffer effects of lead paint unnecessarily. Thirty years after lead pigments were banned from household paint, thousands of New Jersey children are being poisoned each year in the one place they should be safe from harm --at home. 8 Jul New ways to diagnose autism earlier. With the number of autistic children growing, researchers are targeting new technologies to help detect the disorder at ever-younger ages in hopes of reversing some of autism's worst symptoms. 6 Jul Are contaminants contributing to underweight births in Chattanooga area? Hamilton County newborns have some of the worst odds in the country of getting a healthy start in life, with more than one in nine born below what is considered a healthy weight. Now scientists are asking about pollutants. 19 Jun Health leaders aim to cut US premature birth rate. U.S. health leaders this week are crafting a blueprint on how to reverse the worrisome steady increase in babies being delivered prematurely, with one in every eight U.S. infants now born pre-term. |