written by Ted Schettler, MD, MPH Science Director As breast cancer awareness month ends with its primary emphasis on early detection I’ve been more interested in what we’ve learned about opportunities for prevention. Amidst all the pink ribbons and disagreements about optimal mammography scheduling an important theme seems to be finally taking hold. Although opportunities […]
The ten biggest news or research stories of the last quarter, in CHE’s view. Climate Change Climate change continues to receive attention, from top-level activities to broad new investigations of health impacts. Pope delivers strong message on climate change in encyclical ‘Laudato Si’‘: In his much-awaited encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis offered a broad and […]
Elise Miller, MEd, CHE Director, and Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director at SEHN and CHE, contributed the following article to the current edition of San Francisco Medicine, focused on human health and the environment, and especially the effects of early-life exposures. The full article can be found on the San Francisco Medical Society’s website. […]
written by Elise Miller, MEd CHE Director As you probably remember from your high school biology class, our bodies function using electrical impulses to communicate between cells, such as telling your heart muscles to contract or signaling your brain that you just stubbed your toe. Since everything relies on these signals, any breakdown or disruption […]
Steve Heilig, MPH CHE Director of Public Health & Education Director of Public Health & Education at the San Francisco Medical Society CHE’s motto is “Science and Civility”—it’s right there on top of our home page. Just below that comes our mission: “… to strengthen the science dialogue on environmental factors impacting human health and […]
Elise Miller, MEd CHE Director Yesterday, I attended the memorial service of another friend who died from cancer. For most of his career (which was still very much in full gear), he went around the world working with governments and other agencies to reduce pollution from mining operations. He was dedicated to improving the health […]
For the third quarter of 2013, CHE has selected stories and studies that come from a wide range of environmental health topics. Comments are welcome. Drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ deemed urgent threats: US report “For organism after organism, we’re seeing this steady increase in resistance rates,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a telephone […]
Sarah Howard Coordinator of CHE’s Diabetes-Obesity Spectrum Working Group Two important studies have been published this month on chemical exposures that cause obesity in subsequent generations of rodents, long after the exposure ends. Until now, no prior studies on transgenerational obesogen exposures had been published. The results are alarming. In the first study, pregnant mice […]
Michael Lerner President, Commonweal In this extremely interesting article, Andrew Weil—America’s foremost integrative medicine physician—takes on the complex issue of hormesis. For those who follow CHE science dialogue closely, hormesis is controversial within the CHE community. Leading experts on EDCs are frequently suspicious of hormesis and point to industry funding for hormesis research. Weil takes a different […]
Nancy Snow, MS Research and Communications Specialist Headlines in the last 24 hours or so have looked too good to be true: Cancer risk in a clean house and Houseproud women ‘more at risk from breast cancer.’ Can I really stop cleaning without guilt? Sadly, the spin on a new study is indeed too good […]
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