As an active member of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families (SCHF) coalition, which is undertaking a nationwide effort to keep harmful chemicals in check and protect public health via reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Greater Boston PSR urges you to learn more about the Safe Chemical Act of 2010 and how you can help to bring about its passage.
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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.
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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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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Health and Environment Projects
GBPSR has been a leader on environmental health issues for the past 18 years, effectively working through publications, trainings, and presentations to educate the medical community, policy makers, and the public about the health consequences of a range of environmental factors.
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Health, Peace and Security Projects
Since its founding in the late 1970s, GBPSR members have been committed to preventing the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons, to educate on the public health dimensions of war and militarism, and to support policies that work for peace and global disarmament.
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Free Online Continuing Education Course for Health Professionals on Pediatric Environmental Health
GBPSR teamed up with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine and the University of California - San Francisco Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit to create this FREE online 1-1/2 hour CE course for health professionals.
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Dr. Richard Clapp's op-ed "Green Energy Policy Should Not Include Nuclear Power" published
Long time GBPSR leader Dr. Richard Clapp's op-ed, "Green Energy Policy Should Not Include Nuclear Power," has been published in the Massachusetts Forum and in a number of local newspapers in the Greater Boston area.
May 2010 Webinar on Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease features PowerPoint presentation now available for download
Ted Schettler MD MPH, Healthy Aging report co-author and a leading expert on environmental health, held on three dates in May 2010 a Training Webinar on Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease. The key findings of the Healthy Aging report were given in a PowerPoint presentation complete with references and speaker notes.
PSR Nuclear Weapons Signature Ad published in May 18, 2010 Boston Globe
PSR published a Nuclear Weapons Signature Ad, with the signatures of 400 Massachusetts members and supporters, in the May 18, 2010 edition of the Boston Globe, urging Senator Scott Brown to support Nuclear Weapons treaties.
AAIDD-GBPSR Aging Teleconference Series - Fall 2010
This fall, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) with Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) and our distinguished panels of guest speakers bring you a groundbreaking series of teleconference calls on aging, environmental health, and disability.
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Environmental Contaminants Impact Bone Formation and the Immune System
Read Boston University School of Medicine MD/PhD Candidate Amelia Hass' From Research to Real Life series article, Make No Bones About It: Environmental Contaminants Impact Bone Formation and the Immune System, and find out more!
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Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
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 »
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