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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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Brain Cancer: Newsfeed
19 May Time to stop foot-dragging on banning dangerous BPA. The chemical industry must be made to create a safe alternative to BPA and phase it in while phasing out the endocrine disrupting synthetic chemical. Will that happen anytime soon? Not as long as there?s a dollar more to be squeezed out of doing things the old-fashioned (to wit, cheap) way. 18 May Mega-lawsuit claims nuke contamination in Pennsylvania. The nearly 100 plaintiffs alleging death, cancer and other illnesses from radioactive emissions from two defunct Armstrong County nuclear fuels plants are awaiting a trial date for what is likely to be a second set of a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit. 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 Mammary chronicles. Breast milk aided the evolution of the large human brain ? but it can contain toxicants. Florence Williams, a U.S. science journalist, uses her own body as a research tool. 15 May Harmful household chemicals must be banned - health before commerce. The UK should ignore economic pressure to water down a European ban on chemicals linked to disease. Considering the high stakes for health, and the vast costs of dealing with the diseases likely to be attributed to these chemicals, authorities have to be cautious. 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 'It was our job. We had to eat.' Mervin Klees is one of several railroad employees who has received a settlement check from Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the last 10 years for alleged exposure to asbestos and other toxic chemicals at the train shops. 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. 11 May Is having weed-free lawn worth it? "Your lawn is in battle mode" was printed on the envelope I received from the lawn care company. "Harmful weed and pest threats are showing up." In addressing these issues, this company and homeowners spread war defoliants, insecticides and fungicides?substances highly hazardous to life. 10 May Radiation risks: Raiders of the lost archive. Fearful of a nuclear attack in the 1950s, the Soviet Union wanted to understand how radiation causes diseases such as cancer. Massive secret animal experiments were conducted, with scientists carefully recording their findings. Now, researchers hope to save these and other archives in the US, Europe, and Japan, hoping they could answer modern-day questions about the dangers of radiation. 10 May Secondhand smoke a clear health hazard to kids. One out of five pregnant women will continue to smoke, and thousands of babies are brought home to a smoke-filled environment. Not smoking is one of the greatest gifts parents can give to their children, for their own health and most definitely for the health of their children. 8 May Food-packaging chemical could lead to breast cancer, study finds. A new study of fetal exposure to BPA, a plastic additive found in some food packaging, shows that the chemical altered the mammary gland development in monkeys, reinforcing concerns that BPA - bisphenol A - could contribute to breast cancer in women. 8 May Drug-defying germs from India speed post-antibiotic era. India?s $12.4 billion pharmaceutical industry manufactures almost a third of the world?s antibiotics, and people use them so liberally that relatively benign and beneficial bacteria are becoming drug immune. Poor hygiene has spread resistant germs into India?s drains, sewers and drinking water, putting millions at risk of drug-defying infections. 7 May Brain cancer risks of mobile phones for real. Science has confirmed that the trusty mobile gadget - which now comes as a smartphone or feature phone - emits radiation, ramping up fears that humans may indeed develop brain cancer from excessive use of the ubiquitous device. |