New Clinical Proceedings from Planned Parenthood and ARHP

Planned Parenthood and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals have just released an accredited clinical monograph on Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health. The purpose of the monograph is to provide front-line clinicians with practical guidance on environmental reproductive health issues, based on the best available evidence. Link to the clinical proceedings

Pamphlet for Expecting Moms Now Available in Spanish

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has developed a color, folded, cross-cultural pamphlet to be given to women at Ob-Gyn appointments. This educational pamphlet for expecting moms explains environmental risks at home, in the workplace, and outdoors and is intended for use in clinics and doctors offices around the country. Contributing partners include the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), American College of Nurse Midwives, and the V.A. women's health program, with funding from the John Merck Fund. Link to the Spanish version of the pamphlet

Help ARHP Win Support for Two Important Services

What can you accomplish with just two clicks online? You can help ARHP win $50,000 to support two innovative reproductive health projects. ARHP is in the running to win two grants for the following projects through the Pepsi Refresh program:

* a series of interactive webinars where an expert will offer practical guidance and answer questions on making your home, school, office, and community safer. You can vote today and every day through March.

* keeping the DC and Oakland Stewart Centers equipped and available for progressive groups and adding additional training sessions for reproductive health professionals. The Stewart Centers are a working tribute to ARHP's former board chair, Felicia Stewart, MD, who dedicated her career to connecting progressive organizations and helping them collectively leverage their work. You can vote today and every day through March.

For more information, please visit http://www.arhp.org.

** The MP3 recording of Chemicals and Reproductive Health: The Male Predicament is now available. 

Recent Publications

New Video: The Male Predicament.
The Male Predicament is the informative and compelling lecture that Dr. Theo Colborn has delivered across the U.S. and overseas. Using scientific facts, photos and a touch of humor, it describes in detail how males are susceptible to endocrine disrupting chemicals.

New Report: Earliest Exposures.
New tests by the Washington Toxics Coalition (WTC) reveal that children spend their first nine months in an environment that exposes them to known toxic chemicals. This new study was completed by the WTC in collaboration with the Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center and the Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition.

Toxic Matters brochure. A brochure that highlights how to prevent exposure to toxic substances at home, in the workplace and in your community. Produced by the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at the University of California, San Francisco.

Reproductive Roulette, a report on declining reproductive health and dangerous chemical exposures, created by the Center for American Progress.

Shaping Our Legacy is Now Available in Spanish: The comprehensive report from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility is now available in Spanish, courtesty of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE).
Link to the original report
Link to the scientific proceedings