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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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Infertility: Newsfeed 17 May Chemicals in environment 'damaging male fertility.' New evidence has emerged that suggests chemicals routinely found in the environment could be damaging fertility in some men. 16 May BPA diminishes in vitro success. Exposure to bisphenol A at levels commonly found in the general population may cut a woman's chance of getting pregnant if she is undergoing fertility treatment, a study from Harvard University finds. 15 May Lead poisoning continues to plague northern Nigeria. Two years after the plight of hundreds of children in Nigerian villages suffering from acute lead poisoning as a result of illegal gold mining first emerged, the government has done little to tackle the problem, human rights groups and development NGOs say. 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. 6 May Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk. Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. 3 May How chemicals affect us. Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have grotesque effects. Endocrine disruptors are everywhere. Test your blood or urine, and you?ll surely find them there, as well as in human breast milk and in cord blood of newborn babies. 2 May Autism rates booming, industrial chemicals may play a role, researchers finding. While the role of obesity and the age of parents has been garnering headlines of late, the big battle over what causes autism has been between genetics and environment. 27 Apr Mobile phones not harmful, new study claims. In recent years there has been a spate of studies on the health effects of mobile phones: while some said mobiles are harmful to humans, others have played down the threat. A new study now claims that mobiles are not hazardous. 27 Apr Good news! Cellphones don't cause cancer. Probably. There is no convincing evidence that cellphone use poses a threat to human health, according to an extensive review of scientific evidence released Thursday. But the WHO noted that more research was needed to fully understand the impacts of electromagnetic fields on public health. 26 Apr Mobile phones: 'Still no evidence of harm to health.' There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK's Health Protection Agency. 24 Apr Pesticide residues on fresh produce a serious problem. The problem of pesticide residues on fresh produce in Taiwan has not been addressed since it was detected last year, an environmental group said Tuesday, citing the results of its most recent tests. 21 Apr Sand filter removes estrogen with ease. Sand filtration might work as well to remove estrogen from wastewater as expensive and more technologically complex methods. The findings might help protect wild fish from estrogens at low cost, researchers say. 17 Apr Safer chemicals make safer products. Our current system for assessing chemical safety is tragically broken. The Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation?s primary chemical safety law enacted in 1976, has failed to protect public health, the environment, and our communities. While rates of diseases keep going up, the federal system that should protect us hasn?t changed in 36 years. 9 Apr The folly of big agriculture: Why nature always wins. Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on engineering the land to ensure the absence of natural diversity. But as the recent emergence of herbicide-tolerant weeds on U.S. farms has shown, nature ultimately finds a way to subvert uniformity and assert itself. |