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5/7/08: An MP3 recording of the May 7 CHE Partnership Call Sick Plastic, Sick People? The Science and Policy of Bisphenol A is now available!


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment

3/20/08: Panel recording: Microwave Radiation: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution

2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 

1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 
 

3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production.

9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields


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CHE Partner Shanna Swan: Investigating Environmental “Cocktail” of Endocrine Disruptors

CHE Partner Dr. Shanna Swan In 1981, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) recruited Dr. Shanna Swan and a number of other environmental scientists for what was then – as she put it – a “new and exciting” program: the Environmental Health Investigations Branch.


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Worry Over Incubator 'Emissions'- May 5, 2008

BBC, UK

Electromagnetic fields from incubators may be interfering with newborn babies' heart rates, claim researchers.
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Your Commute Could Be Killing You- May 5, 2008

Seattle King 5 TV, Washington

Ultra-fine particles, smaller than 1/1,000 the size of a human hair, can enter the bloodstream and disperse throughout the body. They have been linked to increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Study Links Child's Autism, Parents' Mental Illness- May 5, 2008

Reuters

In another sign pointing to an inherited component to autism, a study released on Monday found that having a schizophrenic parent or a mother with psychiatric problems roughly doubled a child's risk of being autistic.
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Margaret L. Williams was raised at 27 East Pearl Street in Pensacola, Florida in a house next to the railroad tracks and wedged between two heavily polluting factories.
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