Resources from the April 12, 2007 third Asthma & Chemicals Call: Models of Action

• Download Dr. Tom Fuller's Powerpoint Presentation
  
  
• Risks to Asthma Posed by Indoor Health Care Environments: A guide to identifying and reducing problematic exposures, Health Care Without Harm Report
  
  
• Web resources mentioned for household products and alternatives (including cleaning products):
  
  Guide to Less Toxic Products, a database from the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
  Washington Toxics Coalition, various guides
  Environmental Health Coalition, including guides in Spanish

Resources from the March 28, 2007 second Asthma & Chemicals Call: Diesel Exhaust - Science and Action

• Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative Report:  "Paying With Our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California"
  
  
• Community and Policy Interventions to Reduce Asthma Disparities PDF File (291 KB)
  
  
• Clean Air Task Force Commuter Exposure Study: "No Escape from Diesel Exhaust"
  
  
• "No Escape from Diesel Exhaust" Presentation PDF File (577 KB)

Resources from the January 24, 2007 first Asthma & Chemicals Call: The Science

• The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) revised asthma guidelines, Full Report of Expert Panel: Guidelines for the Diagnosis
  
  
• The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) revised asthma guidelines, Full Report of Expert Panel: Guidelines for the Diagnosis
  and Management of Asthma  (EPR-3) has been released and is posted at
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/epr3/. Comments are due by
  March 5.
  
  
• Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers and other resources, from the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation's (NEETF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative (Mentioned by Leyla McCurdy on Jan. 24th call)
  
  
• List of chemicals that have been shown to cause occupational asthma (the 250 or so that Dr. Balmes mentioned on the Jan. 24th CHE Asthma call)
  
  
• Risks to Asthma Posed by Indoor Health Care Environments: A guide to identifying and reducing problematic exposures, Health Care Without Harm Report
  
  
• Diesel & Adjuvants (mentioned by Ted Schettler on the Jan. 24th call)
  
• Steerenberg PA, et al., Adjuvant activity of various diesel exhaust and ambient particles in two allergic models, J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2003 Aug 8;66(15):1421-39.
  
• Granum, B., et al., IgE adjuvant effect caused by particles - immediate and delayed effects, Toxicology. 2001 Jan 2;156(2-3):149-59.