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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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Breast 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 Coffee buzz: Java drinkers live longer, big study finds; regular and decaf are equally good. One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. 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 Texas town's effort to link fracking and illness falls short. Quite a few of the 225 people who live in Dish, Texas, blame the chemicals used in gas production for health problems ranging from nosebleeds to cancer. But scientists say it's just not clear whether pollutants from gas wells are hurting people in Dish ? or anywhere else. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 14 May Low-level cadmium exposure can increase female cancer risk. Women exposed to low levels of cadmium in their food have changes in DNA markers that alter gene regulation and increase their cancer risk. 12 May Research adds to BPA fear of cancer. New findings suggests a link between breast cancer risk and prenatal exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, giving more ammunition to groups that want to ban the substance, which is found in baby bottles, food containers and numerous other consumer products. 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 Household chemicals linked to range of human ailments. Common household chemicals could be causing a range of human ailments from reduced fertility to obesity and cancer, the European Environment Agency has warned. 11 May Cancer claims fewer Canadian lives. The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fueled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadian men than it did in earlier decades, the Canadian Cancer Society said Wednesday. 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. |