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  • Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

    Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

    The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition, a nationwide effort of diverse groups (including PSR), has published a report, The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act, that presents the science and economics supporting its position. The report draws primarily on five peer-reviewed publications that study and review the scientific literature, one of which is GBPSR's Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report.

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  • GBPSR's The Arc of Life and Health publications

    The Arc of Life and Health - GBPSR's seminal research reports

    Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility offers a series of seminal research reports on environmental health, a body of work that examines the influence of environmental exposures over the lifespan..... These reports have been used as the basis to educate over 10,000 health professionals at presentations and trainings throughout North America.

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  • BUSRP Ask the Researcher Forum

    BUSRP Ask the Researcher Forum

    Ask the Researcher Forum is a valuable, interactive environmental health resource tool developed by the Boston University Superfund Research Program and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility to help bring "research to real life" by allowing readers to pose questions and have them answered by four expert researchers involved in the BUSRP.

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  • DAN Nuclear Free World forum slide

    DAN "Nuclear Weapons-Free World" TV Forum video receives distinction

    Somerville Community Access Television chose the Massachusetts Disarmament Action Network (DAN)'s 1/2 hour television roundtable video, "Getting to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World," as one of three nominations for a "Best of 2009" award in the Informational category.

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Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) was one of the first chapters of PSR, an organization known as "the active conscience of the medical community."

For nearly 50 years, GBPSR has been working to prevent the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons, and address the health effects of militarism. We have become a national leader on environmental health issues, producing seminal reports, continuing medical education courses, and clinical tools. About GBPSR »

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  • Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging Report Download

    Healthy Aging is really about healthy living. This new report offers the most comprehensive review of the currently available research on the lifetime influences of environmental factors on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and their relation to a range of other chronic diseases. Read more »

  • Healthy Living Resources

    The list of organizations in the Healthy Living Resources guide is not exhaustive, but we hope it will provide some starting points for you. Read more »

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Maria Valenti - Program Director
66 Union Square, Suite 204
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
617-440-1735 (o)