On Tuesday, May 1, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) sponsored a Congressional briefing to present the findings of a new PSR/IPPNW report, Nuclear Famine: One Billion People at Risk, that demonstrates the devastating consequences of a limited nuclear exchange on climate and agriculture. The report's author, Dr. Ira Helfand, delivered the message that without decisive action towards nuclear abolition, more countries will develop nuclear weapons programs and the threat of a regional nuclear conflict will continue to increase.
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PSR doctors flew in to Washington from six states recently to present the Obama Administration with a petition signed by 850 health professionals voicing concern about the toxic dangers posed by unregulated coal ash disposal. The PSR doctors delivered the petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the President's Council on Environmental Quality and called for prompt release of a health-protective coal ash rule. The doctors also held a briefing for the Senate and met individually with key senators, urging them to defeat an amendment to the Transportation bill that would essentially ban the EPA from regulating toxic coal ash, now and in the future.
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Eighteen chapter leaders gathered recently for a dynamic two days of networking, strategizing and learning. Joined by national staff and meeting under the banner “Collaborating for a Stronger PSR,” the leaders focused on improving their recruitment of health professionals, building membership and tapping the talents of others in the network. The group welcomed several new faces, including two executive directors. The meeting took place in downtown Chicago.
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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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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.
More on Free Online Continuing Education Course for Health Professionals on Pediatric Environmental Health »An op-ed co-authored by PSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand on the danger of nuclear famine.
Source: CNNA brief in support of the newspapers was filed on behalf of Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility, and other groups.
Source: Business WeekEight PSR doctors, flying in to Washington from six states, will present the Obama Administration with a petition signed by 850 health professionals voicing their concern about the toxic dangers posed by unregulated coal ash disposal.
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Greater Boston PSR 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 »
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.
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!
Now is the time for Congress to make the right choices on spending and to take meaningful reductions in our bloated nuclear arsenal and military budget.
Parents shouldn't have to know which products to pick to avoid toxic chemicals.
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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