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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Coal's Assault on Human Health:
February 15, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group call: Climate Change Vulnerability and Cumulative Impacts:
February 16, 2012
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Testicular Cancer: NewsfeedBrowse CHE's Portal to Science, preselected for cancer resources. 4 Dec Risk assessment: science has a hard time gauging the danger posed by carcinogens. About two in five Americans will get cancer. But for most individual cases, pinpointing a specific cause is impossible. So scientists focus on risks: exposures, behaviors and conditions that increase your odds of getting cancer. But a growing body of evidence suggests there's more to all this than smoking, genes and where you work. 3 Dec Runaway growth. Forty years after Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, there is 'less death' but 'more cancer.' This is starkest among children. The increase in cancer rates isn't confined to specific regions or occupations. Increasingly, researchers are interrogating the environment as a cause of cancer -- and suggesting that cleaning up the environment may help prevent it. 3 Dec Soft-pedaling prevention. We celebrate those who beat cancer ... but ignore efforts to prevent it. In 2010, the National Cancer Institute spent $364 million on prevention programs -- and $1.16 billion on treatment research. Treatment is likewise the focus of the vast majority of funds raised by your average "race for the cure" fundraiser. 1 Nov Study: Health effects from military burn pits inconclusive. It's too early to tell if exposure to open pits of burning material in Iraq and Afghanistan has hurt the health of troops who served in the two wars, finds a new report. However, service in those wars "might be associated with long-term health effects," the report said. 23 Oct Little women. By the 1980s, the onset of puberty, if not actual menstruation, had gone into free fall--a change so sudden and pronounced that something more than normal evolution must have been at work. There is no shortage of theories about what's causing this to hapen. Obesity, exposure to endocrine disruptors like BPA, even social factors like TV and the internet have been invoked. 6 Oct Risky pregnancy drug raised daughters' cancer odds. Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, a drug that millions of pregnant women took decades ago to prevent miscarriage and complications, has put their daughters at higher risk for breast cancer and other health problems that are showing up now, a new federal study finds. 5 Oct Genes change message after newborn rats given BPA. Bisphenol A (BPA) can alter the way genes are read in male rats exposed to the chemical as newborns. The so-called epigenetic changes had lasting effects on reproductive hormone signals into adulthood that may partially explain reported effects of the chemical on male fertility. 29 Sep Polyfluorinated compounds: Past, present, and future. Some developing regions have taken up the production of materials that have been restricted in other parts of the world, making it difficult to determine if progress is being made with regard to reducing global PFC emissions. 22 Sep How safe is your indoor swimming pool? Catherine Garceau doesn't go to the pool anymore. The former Olympic swimmer has trained at many fitness centers over the years that smelled strongly of chlorine. While most would assume that means the water is clean, Garceau now knows it's just the opposite. 16 Sep What else can the analysis of sewage for urinary biomarkers reveal about communities? Public health agencies worldwide face the significant challenge as to how to quickly and reliably evaluate the overall health of a population. One solution may simply lie beneath our feet. 1 Aug 'Majestic study' casts doubt on bisphenol A scare. The evolving BPA research, however, is enough to convince many experts that enough money has already been sunk into BPA investigations, and that now, in light of the "majestic" blood level study, the time has come to put estrogenic concerns about this chemical on the back burner. 8 Jul Federal TCE study to be revived. A shelved federal study probing links between health problems and industrial contamination in the Endicott area could soon be dusted off. 28 Jun Latin American banana labourers file pesticide exposure claims. A 25-year battle by Latin American banana labourers to win compensation from companies including British-Dutch oil giant Shell for exposure to a pesticide which they claim left them sterile and crippled by ill health is set to finally come to a close after dozens of workers filed damages claims. 18 Jun Danish sperm counts spark data dispute. Last week, in what its editor acknowledges was an unusual move, the journal Epidemiology published a commentary and an editorial on new sperm count data that had not been submitted to it, nor had they been published elsewhere by the researchers who collected them. |