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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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Prostate Cancer: Newsfeed 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. 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. 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. 7 May In their backyard. Bob Bullard?s first book, Dumping in Dixie, brought attention to the disparity in how waste facilities, chemical plants, incinerators, and smelters were sited in the South. In 1990, when the book was published, not a single state had an environmental-justice law on the books. In 2012 every state has some such law, policy, or executive order. But the problem hasn?t gone away. 6 May High arsenic level may mean new water system for Lewiston neighborhood. Joe Malecke installed a filtering system on his tap water seven years ago, shortly after he found out there was a high level of arsenic in his drinking water. 3 May Cancer cluster in St. Paul: Correlation or coincidence? Residents of a St. Paul neighborhood with higher than average cancer cases are wondering if it could be linked to nearby hazardous waste sites. 27 Apr California weighs tobacco tax hike to fund research. Thanks to the unhealthy habits of some of the state's residents, California voters have an opportunity on 5 June to make their home one of the world's biggest supporters of cancer research. 17 Apr Trace chemicals in everyday food packaging cause worry over cumulative threat. The government has long known that tiny amounts of chemicals used to make plastics can migrate into food. But scientists are beginning to piece together data on the ubiquity of chemicals in the food supply and the cumulative impact of chemicals at minute doses. What they?re finding has some health advocates worried. 17 Apr C8 Science Panel links C8 to testicular, kidney cancer. An independent panel of three epidemiologists have concluded that exposure to the manufacturing substance known as C8 or PFOA is linked to two types of cancer in Mid Ohio Valley residents. 17 Apr C8 Panel: Probable link to two cancers found. The C8 Science Panel announced it found a probable link between exposure to C8 and both testicular and kidney cancer. The panel was unable to find any link between exposure to ammonium perfluorooctanoate, also known as PFOA or C8, and 19 other cancers. 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. 14 Apr Arsenic double whammy for cancer. Arsenic is a carcinogen that packs a double punch: cells that it has made cancerous send out signals that in turn make healthy stem cells become malignant. 6 Apr Health concerns remain after FDA declines to act. We continue to believe the independent research that warns of BPA's risks provides ample reason to ban the chemical. We also agree, though, that there is a risk in moving too fast. |