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  • Collaborating for a Stronger PSR

    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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  • Rally for a Nuke-Free World in NYC on October 1st

    Join PSR New York City, former PSR leader Dr. Helen Caldicott, and others speaking out for a safer future; transparency about radiation danger in Japan; proliferation danger; and the Indian Point nuclear reactors near New York City.

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  • Remembering "3/11": Six Months After the Fukushima Reactor Disaster, Key Lessons Appear to be Going Unlearned

    At a news conference today, three leading U.S. experts voiced concerns regarding the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.  PSR’s President-Elect Dr. Andrew Kanter warned that the dangers associated with radiation exposure to the people in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture are being minimized and that “exposing non-consenting people, especially children, to these increased health risks is medically unacceptable.”  These experts also cautioned that the U.S. response, thus far, has been inadequate to prevent a similar nuclear catastrophe from happening in the U.S. and urged faster action to address the danger.

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  • Code Black: Health Professionals Fighting Coal

    Code Black

    Coal's Assault on America's Health - Coal-fired power plants are the leading global warming culprit in the U.S., accounting for more than 30 percent of our nation's carbon dioxide emissions. They also are one of the nation's largest sources of air pollutants that damage cardiovascular and respiratory health.

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  • Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit 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 »

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Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH
160 Cabrini Blvd # 86
New York, New York 10033-1145
646-469-2421