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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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Childhood Leukemia: Newsfeed 15 May New York musicians to fight fracking at Albany rally. With lawmakers now reviewing a bill that would allow fracking in New York state, local musicians will join the New Yorkers Against Fracking rally and concert in Albany on Tuesday, to encourage Governor Andrew Cuomo to maintain the state's ban. 14 May Sickness link to pesticides. A recent assessment shows pesticide residues found on Australian foods may be linked to health problems such as lymphoblastic leukemia in children, behavioural irregularities and low IQ. 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. 7 May Locals say they endure river of sorrow. Statistics released during the 31st World Cancer Congress in August 2010 show that the average incidence of cancer in China is about 180 cases per 100,000 people. The rate in Dangjie village, in Linzhou, Henan province, was nearly 100 times higher in the past three years. Villagers point to the river that is their sole source of drinking water as the cause. 3 May Electrical pollution: Are we being poisoned? Fueled in part by studies that show children exposed to heavy levels of electromagnetic fields have a greater chance of developing leukemia, several countries in the European Union have established strict safety thresholds ? limits far below what's commonplace in the United States. 1 May Controversial Italian scientist says Splenda causes cancer. In a move that bypasses good but boring scientific practice and goes straight for the klieg lights of the media, Dr. Morando Soffritti, Director of the Ramazzini Institute in Bologna, Italy, offers only a press release saying that he found mice were at increased risk for cancer after being fed Splenda, the popular non-calorie sweetener. 29 Apr Environment may be factor in cases of rare cancer in limited area. For five years, cases of a rare cancer have been cropping up among children in the Port Huron area. A recent case farther south in St. Clair Shores has added another twist to the mystery. 27 Apr Ukraine begins work on shelter to cover Chernobyl reactor. Ukraine on Thursday launched the construction of the so-called 'New Shelter' which will cover the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which suffered a catastrophic explosion exactly 26 years ago. 19 Apr Rare earth plant in Malaysia nearly ready to go. Australian mining company Lynas said Thursday it would lose money if the opening of its Malaysian refinery for minerals that are crucial to high-tech manufacturing is delayed by a new government health and safety review. 19 Apr Argentine Goldman Prize winner overcame baby?s poisoning and death threats. After Sofia Gatica?s newborn died of agro-toxin exposure in 1999, the Argentine mother of three set out to stop Monsanto?s indiscriminate use of agrochemicals on her nation?s soy fields. 18 Apr The human cancer risks posed by extreme fossil fuel extraction. We cancer survivors, who know something about the fragility of life, hereby declare that the exchange of life-giving water for death-dealing fossil fuel is unacceptable. 11 Apr Autism science is moving 'stunningly fast.' Across the country, researchers are scanning the brains of hundreds of autistic children, looking for insights into a condition that has proved frustratingly hard to understand. Researchers today say they're beginning to make progress, perhaps for the first time, in understanding the autistic brain. 5 Apr Questions on nuclear cancer risks? We told you that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the National Academy of Sciences to find a scientifically sound way to assess cancer risks in populations near nuclear plants ? and that the experts working on the issue responded with their first report last week, saying it sure as heck won?t be easy. 21 Mar 'Fracking' may increase air pollution health risks. A new report finds that those living within a half-mile of a natural gas drilling site faced greater health risks than those who live farther away. Colorado allows companies to drill for natural gas within 150 feet of homes. |