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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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Parkinson's Disease: Newsfeed
15 May Do genes really augur your future? For some people, genes are key to predicting our future health. For others, genes as crystal balls are overhyped. Let's call it a truce because both sides are right. 14 May Israel to ban insecticides that could cause neurological damage. Israel's interministerial committee coordinating pesticide use has decided to reduce the number of pesticides permitted for use. The decision followed recent studies that showed that exposure to insecticides harms various systems in the body - especially the nervous system, which the organophosphates affect. 9 May Long-sought agreement reached on cleanup of polluted Wayne site. The state Department of Environment Protection?s longstanding case against a notorious Wayne contaminated dumping site reached a settlement ?in principle? Tuesday in which a cleanup plan has been devised and will be executed over the next five years. 7 May Toxic rift over drift. According to Dr Joseph Rozencwajg, who runs a detoxification clinic not far from the Ivan Watkins Dow chemical plant in Taranaki, New Zealand councils' use of chemicals like Roundup (glyphosate) could have grave long-term consequences. 28 Apr Protesters urge US to scuttle Dow's new GMO corn. Opponents of a new biotech corn variety developed by Dow AgroSciences are making a final push to get US regulators to reject Dow's application to roll out herbicide-tolerant crops that critics believe will wreak havoc on the environment and endanger human health. 20 Apr Scientist warned world about Mad Cow disease. Wendy Grant, who has died at age 89, was a neuropathologist who became one of the first scientists to warn the public that BSE, also known as Mad Cow Disease, could be incubating in the human population. 17 Apr 'Manganese madness' case still delayed. More than five years after being disabled with ?manganese madness,? several Cato Ridge factory workers are still wondering whether the company will ever face legal action. 15 Apr US vet pries lid off Agent Orange denials. Thousands of barrels of Agent Orange were unloaded on Okinawa Island and stored at the port of Naha, and at the U.S. military's Kadena and Camp Schwab bases between 1965 and 1966, an American veteran who served in Okinawa claims. 5 Apr Survey shows cross-party support for pesticide ban. Support for a complete ban on lawn and garden pesticides is growing across political lines in British Columbia, according to a new survey prepared for the Canadian Cancer Society. 15 Mar California farms get testy over water quality. The world?s most pervasive groundwater pollution problem ? nitrate in drinking water ? is under scrutiny in the richest farming region of the United States. California row-crop farmers may be required to test their private wells for nitrate, a widespread groundwater contaminant linked to over-fertilization. 14 Mar Chemistry Nobel laureate F. Sherwood Rowland dies. Sherwood Rowland shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by demonstrating the extraordinary ability of chlorine atoms?unleashed into the atmosphere by chlorofluorocarbons in products such as hair sprays and industrial solvents?to break up protective stratospheric ozone molecules. 13 Mar F. Sherwood Rowland dies at 84, linked CFCs to ozone hole. F. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. His work was about more than just ozone: "It was about the realization that something we do in California could have effects somewhere else in the world." 13 Mar The passing of F. Sherwood Rowland. I was saddened to learn today of the passing on Saturday of F. Sherwood Rowland, a remarkable scientist, engaged citizen and professor best known for sharing the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work revealing the impact of synthetic chlorofluorocarbons on the atmosphere?s protective ozone layer. 12 Mar Nobel scientist who warned of thinning ozone dies. F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that were harming earth's atmospheric blanket, has died. He was 84. 7 Mar Shark fins are loaded with a neurotoxin. Shark fins contain high levels of a potent neurotoxin that scientists have linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer?s and Parkinson?s, according to a recent study published in the journal Marine Drugs. |