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PARTNERSHIP CALLS
CHE Partnership Call:
12/8/09: MP3 recording available - To Ban or Not to Ban: A Review of Atrazine from Both Sides of the Atlantic 11/11/09: MP3 recording available - Navigating the Scientific Evidence to Ensure Prevention
CHE WORKING GROUP CALLS
CHE-AK call: Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Health: Reasons for Concern:
March 30, 2010
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Autism: Newsfeed
11 Mar Hundreds pack raw milk hearing in Eau Claire. Hundreds of raw milk advocates packed a legislative hearing Wednesday, demanding the right to buy and sell unpasteurized dairy products that some claim have powerful health benefits but that detractors call dangerous. 11 Mar Phasing out BPA. A new Wisconsin law banning the chemical in baby bottles and sippy cups is a good step, but in time BPA should be banned altogether. 9 Mar Court to decide if vaccine makers can be sued. The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects. The case involves a lawsuit by the parents of a child who suffered seizures after her third dose of a DTP vaccine. 9 Mar Hidden dangers of phthalates. Phthalates are endocrine disruptors, which mean they interfere with normal brain development. Children's brains are always developing, which makes them particularly susceptible to damage from phthalates. 9 Mar Navistar neighbors need to be realistic. We are the world's greatest polluters but yet are so preoccupied with hypothetical, usually nonexistent, dangers like minuscule amounts of radiation that we tie the hands of our most productive citizens. 5 Mar Doctors sued over "dangerous" autism treatment. The father of a 7-year-old Chicago boy who was diagnosed with autism has sued the Naperville and Florida doctors who treated his son, alleging they harmed the child with the "dangerous and unnecessary experimental" chelation treatments. 4 Mar Are vaccines safe? Drug makers are projecting $21.5 billion in sales in 2012 from vaccines. To reach this target they need legislation passed that will make vaccinations compulsory. Any attempt to introduce legislation of this nature should be challenged as a violation of our constitutional rights. 1 Mar 1 in 4 parents buys unproven vaccine-autism link. One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated. 28 Feb Campaign targets lawn weedkillers, pesticides. A working group of the Burlington Board of Health is about to issue this call: Wanted two Burlington property owners willing this spring to swear off the stew of manmade chemicals many people feed their lawns to keep them as weed- and pest-free as AstroTurf. 27 Feb The autism vaccine debate: Who's afraid of Jenny McCarthy? If you needed a woman to bring hope to mothers of autistic children, you couldn't ask for better casting than Jenny McCarthy. But to her opponents, McCarthy is much worse than a crank: She's a menace to public health. 26 Feb From ocean to ozone: Earth's nine life-support systems. A team of environmental luminaries have identified nine "planetary life-support systems" that are vital for human survival. They quantified how far we have pushed them already, and estimated how much further we can go without threatening our own survival. 25 Feb Do toxins cause autism? Suspicions are growing that one culprit in autism may be chemicals in the environment. Concern about toxins in the environment used to be a fringe view. But alarm has moved into the medical mainstream. 25 Feb A bit more on autism. There are huge uncertainties about the risks from chemicals. But endocrinologists and toxicologists are increasingly worried, and we?re in effect conducting a grand human experiment right now - on ourselves and our children. 24 Feb H1N1 vaccines do not contain mercury. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that flu activity is relatively low across the country. But the CDC is still urging people to get vaccinated because most of the illness is H1N1. |