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Now available: MP3 recording and useful resources from the recent call on environmental impacts on autoimmune diseases - July 1, 2008

Recently released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility)

5/20/08: The New York Times on BPA: "A Hard Plastic is Raising Hard Questions"

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?"

5/7/08: An MP3 recording of the latest CHE Partnership Call Sick Plastic, Sick People? The Science and Policy of Bisphenol A is now available!

5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

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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Accumulated Resources

Sex Education: A Primer on Chemicals, Fertility and Reproduction, by Emily Gertz, Grist: September 18, 2007.

An Inconceivable Truth: The Link Between Infertility and the Environment
Vogue, August 2007

Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World, by Liza Mundy, 2007.

Levels of Risk: Common Industrial Chemicals in Tiny Doses Raise Health Issue, Peter Waldman, The Wall Street Journal, 25 July 2005. (PDF)

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Probed as Potential Pathways to Illness, Richard Trubo, Journal of the American Medical Association: Vol.294, No.3, pp. 291-293, 20 July 2005. (PDF)

Is Human Fecundity Declining?, Niels E. Skakkebæk, et al., International Journal of Andrology: 29 (2006) 2-11. (PDF)

Endocrine News: Trends and Insights for the Endocrine Community, A Publication of the Endocrine Society, July 2005. (PDF)

Episodic Air Pollution is Associated with Increased DNA Fragmentation in Human Sperm Without Other Changes in Semen Quality, Jiri Rubes, et al., Human Reproduction, 24 June 2005. (PDF)

Sidestream Smoking is Equally as Damaging as Mainstream Smoking on IVF Outcomes, Michael S. Neal, et al., Human Reproductiion, 26 May 2005. (PDF)

Debate - Continued: Definition and Prevalence of Subfertility & Infertility, C.Gnoth, et al., Human Reproduction: Vol.20, No.5, pp.1144-1147, 31 March 2005. (PDF)

Longitudinal Changes in Semen Parameters in Young Danish Men From the Copenhagen Area, Elisabeth Carlsen, et al., Human Reproduction, January 2005. (PDF)

Environmental and Occupational Factors Effecting Fertility and IVF Success, Edward V. Younglai, Allison C. Holloway, and Warren G. Foster, Human Reproduction Update: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.43-57, December 2005. (PDF)

Focus on Fertility, InFocus: Quarterly Special Interest Newsletter by the American Infertility Association (AIA), Winter 2004. (PDF)

Your Fertility, Your Environment: Is There a Link?, Shanna Swan, October 2004.

Infertility and Environmental Chemicals - Is There a Connection?, Linda Giudice, San Francisco Medicine, September 2004. (PDF)

Environmental Toxins and Fertility, John Peterson Myers, Linda Giudice, and Alison Carlson, Family Planning, Fall 2004. (PDF)

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