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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012
CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012
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Autism: Newsfeed
18 May Gov. Christie wrong about New Jersey lead program. New Jersey is under the impression it?s won the war on lead poisoning. That will be news to the thousands of kids who will test positive for high lead levels this year. 17 May Child-study turmoil leaves bitter taste. Thousands of parents are facing an uneasy transition as the National Children's Study grapples with its budget woes and undertakes a wholesale restructuring. The affair has unleashed acrimony at all levels, starting with the first seven pilot sites, which are slated to shut down this summer. Scores of fieldworkers will lose their jobs. 17 May Plan for Vermont windmills causes international furor. The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity. 15 May Autism's mysterious rise. The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has been steadily rising in recent decades and most recently was estimated at one in every 88 children nationwide, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published last year. In Colorado, the rate is even higher: one in every 85 children. 15 May Do genes really augur your future? For some people, genes are key to predicting our future health. For others, genes as crystal balls are overhyped. Let's call it a truce because both sides are right. 14 May Israel to ban insecticides that could cause neurological damage. Israel's interministerial committee coordinating pesticide use has decided to reduce the number of pesticides permitted for use. The decision followed recent studies that showed that exposure to insecticides harms various systems in the body - especially the nervous system, which the organophosphates affect. 14 May New Jersey cuts lead poisoning funds. For nearly a decade, New Jersey has been at the forefront in the battle against lead poisoning, pouring millions of dollars every year into screenings for children, databases and maps tracking the poison, and financial aid. Now the state is relaxing its aggressive stance by slashing funds and programs. 14 May Household chemicals possibly causing cancers, fertility problems. The significant growth in many human diseases and disorders in recent decades is connected to the rising levels of exposure to mixtures of some chemicals in widespread use, according to a review of recent literature commissioned by the European Environment Agency. 11 May Household chemicals' 'cocktail effect' raises cancer concerns for watchdog. Europe's environmental watchdog, the European Environment Agency, has warned that products containing endocrine disrupting chemicals should be treated with caution until their true effects are better known. 8 May Vaccination rates: Herd at risk. "They hang out in pockets," says Richard Pan, a Sacramento pediatrician and member of California?s legislature, referring to parents who opt not to give their children the state-recommended vaccinations. These local concentrations of unvaccinated children pose a growing risk to public health. 6 May Autism rates in children rise, but causes are elusive. Experts say the exact causes of autism remain elusive, but a spate of new research attempts to unravel the risk factors behind this complex neuro-developmental disorder that impairs communication and social interaction and can prompt repetitive patterns of behavior. 6 May Ojai vents smart-meter angst. The electrical meter for Marleen Luckman's dwelling is sandwiched between two new smart meters, the kind that some Ojai residents are upset about. Luckman says she worries about a wireless world where electromagnetic radiation is everywhere. 5 May New EPA pollution safeguards protect our families. It's time to imagine a Colorado with thousands of sustainable clean energy jobs, clean air, and clean water. We need to move Colorado beyond dirty coal, and support the EPA's carbon pollution safeguards that clean up and modernize the way we power our country. 3 May How to reduce exposure to toxins. Two new studies about the effects of phthalates and PCBs in our environment shed new concern about their impact on human health, but there are ways to avoid exposure. |