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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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 12 May Cyclone victims may have to wait weeks. As many as 1.5 million people -- including more than 200,000 now believed to be congregating in camps along Myanmar's coast -- face an increasing risk of epidemics of malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases. 12 May When Burmese offer a hand, rulers slap it. The politics of food aid is not confined to the dispute between Myanmar?s military junta, Western governments and relief agencies. Even locals who want to donate rice have been told assistance must be channeled through the military. 12 May Anatomy of a pet food catastrophe. The pet food contamination crisis of 2007 led to massive recalls of pet food, multiple lawsuits against pet food suppliers, and an intensive effort in labs throughout North America to track down the cause. 12 May Ugandan organic exporters in DDT scare. Barely three weeks since spraying of the controversial insecticide DDT to control malaria started in Uganda, the dispute between the government and exporters of organic products is re-emerging, this time over ?irregularities? in the exercise. 12 May Harmful elements in Sahara dust. Concerns about the effects of Saharan dust again sparked last year when scientists discovered six harmful pesticides in Sahara dust samples taken from Trinidad. 12 May Study documents chemicals in U.S. coastal waters. There?s good news from the government scientists who study pollution in U.S. coastal waters. A newly released 20-year study shows overall levels of pesticides and industrial chemicals are generally decreasing. 12 May Isa lead levels worse in indigenous kids. Lead levels in the blood of indigenous children living near Xstrata's heavy metals mine at Mt Isa is higher than the non-indigenous population, medical tests have revealed. 12 May Families will make case for vaccine link to autism. Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. 12 May Containing measles. A measles outbreak, rare as it is these days, can be devastating. But growing pockets of parents are opting out of having their children vaccinated because of concerns about what the vaccines can do to children. 12 May Many tots at risk don't get required testing. Children enrolled in Ohio's Medicaid program are among the most at risk for lead poisoning, according to state and federal officials. 12 May U.S. 2008 tornado death toll 58% above average. Though Spring is typically only the start of tornado season, this is just the latest spate of killer tornadoes in the United States this year. 12 May EPA's scientific integrity. In its continuing investigation of EPA, Senators focused on a controversial new policy that gives federal agencies facing cleanup liability more, and sometimes secret, opportunities to sway EPA's health assessments of pollutants. 11 May World's giants to alter food equation. In India and China, meat is becoming much more likely to be on the menu. Changing diets are creating unprecedented demand for animal feed. 11 May Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm. Around the world, governments are trying to stave off food riots. Many experts call these Band-Aid solutions, saying what's needed is a radical rethink of how the world gets its food. However, they're deeply divided about which way to go. 11 May The dangers of the deltas. From the Mekong to the Mississippi, river mouths have long lured farmers, fishers and traders. But the same geography also guarantees they will be periodically inundated. 11 May Burma's survivors 'facing crisis.' Burmese cyclone survivors face a massive crisis unless they are urgently delivered aid, leading aid agencies have warned. 11 May How the world's oceans are running out of fish. After ninety years of industrial scale overfishing, the future of the oceans has never been more precarious. 11 May In the black. No other county in Pennsylvania produces more coal than Greene, and few places feel coal's impact like this county, where growing numbers of people thrive on the commodity while the rest struggle in its shadow. 11 May Global climate change: What it means to Iowa. Iowa's greenhouse gas emissions are growing faster than the nation's as a whole, even as new state programs fight to limit the damage from global climate change, a new report shows. |