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Environmental Toxins and You
February 23, 2012
Hinsdale, Illinois
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: The Wellness House, 131 N. County Line Rd.
Patients and families are becoming more aware of the role of environmental toxins and health. There is also growing support among members of the public for the green hospital and outpatient clinic movement.
To learn more about protection from environmental toxins and why greening hospitals and outpatient practices is so important for health, two critical areas of Chicago PSR's mission, come listen to Chicago PSR's Director, Dr. Sarah Lovinger, at a free panel discussion on "Environmental Toxins and You."
For more information and to register, you may call 630-323-5150 or go to www.wellnesshouse.org.
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Resources
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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 »
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Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to Our Health and Environment
Coal ash, one of the dirtiest secrets in American energy production, burst into the U.S. consciousness three days before Christmas, 2008 when an earthen wall holding back a huge coal ash disposal pond failed at the coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. Read more »
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Prenatal Exposures
How is the developing fetus vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and how can our regulatory system more effectively protect our health in the prenatal period? From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »