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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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Birth Defects: Newsfeed
20 May Despite health warnings, some who fish undeterred about eating their catch. To scientists, routinely eating one?s catch is the health equivalent of smoking and sunbathing ? an anachronistic practice to be discouraged. Yet on waterways around Philadelphia, the practice persists due to skepticism, generational and cultural differences, and, for poorer families, the lure of virtually free food. 20 May Why are doctors not warning about the 'new Thalidomide?' After the scandal of the devastating birth defects caused by the morning-sickness drug Thalidomide in the 1950s, it seems inconceivable that the same situation could occur again. But for thousands of families in the UK, the word "Epilim" has the same sinister connotations. 20 May Superweeds caused by GMO are super problems. An important claim made by the supporters of genetically modified plants is that they will decrease need for chemical pesticides and herbicides. But in India, a survey conducted by Navdanya showed that pesticide use has increased 13 times since Bt cotton was introduced. 19 May Fixing a deformed frog face. Researchers found that tadpoles have the ability to regenerate parts of their bodies damaged during development. Now they?re trying to determine how that mechanism can be applied to human development. 18 May Pesticide spray in northwestern Minnesota has neighbors worried about health impact. Residents of several northwestern Minnesota communities complained Thursday, May 17, about pesticides sprayed on the region's many potato fields, saying they've led to a variety of health problems for people and animals. 17 May Just what's inside those breasts? In her new book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams offers her take on ? among other things ? how toxic substances from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development. 17 May Debating the Barrow biomass plans. Ahead of Friday's public debate into plans to build a biomass power station in Barrow, the main players for and against the plans, as well as independent health experts, gave their views on the issue. 17 May Lead, cadmium found in some children's raincoats in the Philippines. As the rainy season draws closer, parents buying rain gear for their children were warned against getting cheap raincoats that may contain toxic chemicals like lead and cadmium. 17 May Water in Canada in long-term decline. The U.S. has dedicated $475 million to clean up contamination on its side of the Great Lakes while Ottawa scraped together just $8 million ? the same amount it budgeted to review the charitable funding of environmental groups. 16 May Garden equipment found to contain hazardous chemicals. While there's no dearth of studies examining the presence of questionable chemicals in household staples such as cleaners, toys, and personal care products, similar studies that focus on gardening gear -- hoses, gloves, hand tools, kneeling pads and the like -- are rarer. 16 May Planned power plant in jeopardy after judge finds flaws in TCEQ permit. A Travis County judge has stalled plans for a Corpus Christi power plant after finding flaws in the air pollution permit issued by state regulators. 16 May Loveland enacts emergency fracking ban, Fort Collins may follow. New oil and gas drilling and fracking are now temporarily banned in Loveland and may soon be in Fort Collins as well. 15 May Obesity in pregnancy: Carrying too many pounds can give your baby a life of weight problems. Overweight mothers-to-be could be condemning their unborn children to decades of ill health. Babies whose mothers were carrying extra pounds when pregnant are more likely to be fat and unhealthy as adults, researchers say. 15 May We need stronger standards for state's waterways. Cleaning up toxic sites, raising standards for testing and going after out-of-state coal plants should not be "the one that got away." We need government to stand up and do its job in protecting us and the food we eat. 14 May Nairobi?s garbage dump pits pickers against neighbours. An estimated 6,000 people come daily to mine the Dandora city dump, sorting waste that can be eaten or sold to recycling companies. But most of the 1 million people living near Dandora want the trash site gone and have organized themselves into a grassroots campaign called Stop Dumping Death On Us. |