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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You might be. One-third of Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor. Check out our new mapping tool to see if you fall within an evacuation zone and are at risk.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) mandates that nuclear operators have plans for a 10-mile radius in the event of an accident. However, in the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis, the NRC recommended a 50-mile evacuation zone for Americans.
The Obama Administration's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future is hosting public meetings around the country to solicit feedback on its draft commission report on nuclear waste policy. The Boston meeting is scheduled for October 12 at Harvard Medical School.
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Longtime activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear power, Dr. Helen Caldicott spoke with CNN on March 25, 2011 about nuclear radiation. Dr. Caldicott played an instrumental role in PSR's early history, helping to establish its influence as a major voice for environmental health and safety. You can read this important interview on CNN's Opinion webpage.
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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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Nuclear Power Safety Rally MA State House Boston April 6, 2011
Energy and environmental groups rallied on Beacon Hill April 6, 2011, voicing concerns over nuclear energy in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear disaster.
The release of plutonium from at least one of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors carries serious risks to public health and the environment, according to PSR. Inhalation of a plutonium particle the size of a speck of dust can lead to lung cancer and death.
PSR's Dr. Alan Lockwood describes the health impacts of inhaling plutonium.
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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!
Tell President Obama to abolish the Nuclear Loan Guarantee Program.
Thank President Obama for his courageous and health-protecting decision not to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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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