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A resource action center on children and environmental health. Focus on the many chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home are toxic to the developing brain and can cause developmental disabilities including behavioral and learning disabilities, hyper-activity, attention deficit, lower IQ and motor skill impairment.
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Children's Environmental Health : Project of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Provides a summary of the medical and scientific information about environmental effects on health.
The Children's Environmental Health Institute : Committed to decreasing the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of environmentally related childhood diseases. CEHI identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
Our Children's Earth Foundation : Work to protect the public, especially children, from the health impacts of pollution in California. Information on campaigns, events and news.
Children's Health Environmental Coalition : CHEC dedicated to prevention of non-genetic childhood cancer and other environmentally caused childhood illnesses.
Center for Children's Health and the Environment : CCHE is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Provides fact sheets, reports, conference and contact information.
Institute for Children's Environmental Health : The primary mission of ICEH is to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health and well-being of children and to detoxify environments wherever children spend time.
Healthy Schools : Work to help Ontario school boards identify, prevent, and remediate indoor environment problems that could otherwise affect children's health and learning adversely. Provides news, searches, indexes and links.
Children's Environmental Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals : National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information resources.
Children's Environmental Health Network : The CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project whose purpose is to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.
Enviro Health Action : Physicians for Social Responsibility brochures and resources focusing on toxic threats to child development.
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High-Impact Sports Might Not Harm Knee Replacements (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who get a total knee
replacement are usually advised to avoid high-impact sports to preserve
their new body part. But a new study suggests sport participation is not
only safe -- it may even help people gain better knee function. |
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Processed Meat May Harm the Heart (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Conventional wisdom has
dictated that fat from red meat is a risk factor for heart disease, but a
new analysis from Harvard researchers finds it's eating processed meat --
not unprocessed red meat -- that increases the risk for heart disease and
even diabetes. |
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Health Tip: Preventing Baby Bottle Tooth Decay (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- If your little one gets a lot of sweetened
liquids -- including juice, formula and even some brands of milk -- the
sugars from these liquids can cling to the teeth and cause "baby bottle"
tooth decay. |
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Approval Expanded for Breast Cancer Drug Tykerb (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has expanded approval for Tykerb (lapatinib) to include
postmenopausal women with hormone- and HER2-positive advanced breast
cancer who require hormone therapy. |
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