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Chicago PSR

Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. PSR is the US affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Focus Areas

Gulf Oil Spill: Green Energy Is Healthy Energy
June 22, 2010

Chicago PSR president Dr. Sarah Lovinger writes on the health effects of climate change and the need for a green energy economy.
Source: Huffington Post
Can We Live With the Bomb?
June 1, 2010

Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner writes on the reasons not to abandon the effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Source: History News Network
New Alarm Bells about Chemicals and Cancer
May 6, 2010

The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.
Source: New York Times

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Sarah Pressman Lovinger, MA, MD - Exec. Director

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