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Blog Post: "When the 'FDA Approves Salmonella," How Should Your Company Respond?"

This March 19, 2009 blog post from greenbiz.com reminds manufacturers and retailers dealing with consumers that it's no longer adequate to say "regulators say our products and chemicals are safe" or "we are in compliance with all applicable rules and regulations."

Pediatric Environmental History Forms

NEEF's Pediatric Environmental History Initiative is a multi-year campaign to make environmental history-taking a routine practice for health care providers. In order to provide the tools needed to incorporate environmental history taking into medical and nursing training for clinicians, NEEF created a user-friendly environmental history form for health care providers treating pediatric patients. The Screening Environmental History is designedto be administered by the primary health care provider in less than five minutes in order to capture most of the common environmental exposures to children. The Additional Categories and Questions to Supplement the Screening Environmental History provides further categories and questions for the health care provider to ask if a positive response is given to one or more of the screening questions.

Take Action - Keep Antibiotics Working!

The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) has been re-introduced in Congress. We applaud our champions in Congress for introducing such important legislation to safeguard antibiotics and protect public health. To learn more about the bill and to contact your representatives in Congress, please check out this link.

Autism and Asthma Linked to Vinyl Flooring in Homes

CHEJ Launches New Campaign to Rid Schools of Toxic Flooring Falls Church, VA – The scientific community is abuzz over a first of its kind study published in the journal Neurotoxicology that found a statistically significant correlation between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) flooring. The study found that children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit phthalates, are twice as likely to have autism. The is the first study to link PVC flooring with autism spectrum disorder, and adds to a growing body of scientific evidence linking phthalates in PVC flooring with asthma and other respiratory problems in children and adults. The study focused on vinyl flooring in the home but children are routinely exposed to this toxic material in their schools as well.

Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers

These guidelines are aimed at integrating environmental management of asthma into pediatric health care. These documents outline competencies in environmental health relevant to pediatric asthma that should be mastered by health care providers, and outlines the environmental interventions that should be communicated to patients. Available in English and Spanish.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities

The Massachusetts Council of Churches, in partnership with the NCC, is pleased to bring the Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities curriculum to the churches of the Commonwealth. We hope and pray that these activities and study sessions will help Christians in Massachusetts live out a faithful witness of health and wholeness, love of creation, and love of neighbor.

Center for Progressive Reform's Homepage

The Center for Progressive Reform is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and educational organization with a network of 58 Member Scholars working to protect health, safety, and the environment through analysis and commentary.

Scientific Proceedings of the UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Elsevier and Fertility and Sterility have generously provided full access to the Scientific Proceedings of the 2007 University of California, San Francisco-Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility -- a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary conference on the reproductive and developmental health impacts of exposures to environmental contaminants.

Livestock-associated MRSA reported in US

A pilot study published last week by researchers at the University of Iowa has found high prevalence of MRSA in swine (49%) and swine workers (45%) on a commercial confinement operation with farms scattered in Iowa and Illinois. The study, published in the PLoS ONE, v. 4(1); 2009, is the first to demonstrate the presence of the dangerous MRSA strain ST 398 in the U.S. The results add to the mounting body of evidence pointing to farm animals as reservoirs for antibiotic resistant strains of MRSA under circumstances in which the bacteria are passed to humans...

HEFN 2008 Scoping Reports PowerPoint Presentation

A powerpoint presentation prepared by the author of the 2008 HEFN Scoping Reports on Environmental Health and Justice and Women's Environmental Health, Tina Eshaghpour. This file will be used as a guide during the April 2nd funder call on the topic.