Under the Clean Air Act, for each dollar spent to clean our air there has been a health care cost savings of about $44 – and there are still dollars to be saved. PSR board member Dr. Alan Lockwood does the math in an op-ed.

Dr. Ira Helfand and Col. Richard Klass write in an op-ed in The Times Record, "Maine’s Sens. Collins and Snowe have the singular opportunity to lead a bipartisan majority to stop the worldwide testing of nuclear weapons."

Ana Mascarenas of PSR-Los Angeles discusses the ubiquity of toxic flame retardants in household products.

SF PSR co-executive director Lucia Sayre has co-authored an article in Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy, on chemicals in the food system. In it she provides an overview of how our industrialized food system contributes to adverse reproductive and developmental health impacts.

Chicago PSR executive director Dr. Sarah Lovinger writes about the risks of environmental toxins and the impacts of nuclear disasters like the one in Japan.

PSR board member and past president Dr. Ira Helfand discusses radiation exposure from nuclear accidents.

Energy and environmental groups rallied on Beacon Hill April 6, 2011, voicing concerns over nuclear energy in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear disaster.

Dr. Ira Helfand, past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, with a look at the medical perspectives on the use of nuclear weapons.

On May 1st, 2011, the Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility hosted the 2011 Scholarship Essay Contest Finals at the Dante Club in Sacramento.

Today, Physicians for Social Responsibility released its report, The Clean Air Act: A Proven Tool for Healthy Air. The report provides a critical review of the health protections achieved through air pollution prevention.

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as "unconscionable" the Japanese government's safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and junior high schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.

It is the consensus of the medical and scientific community, summarized in the US National Academies’ National Research Council report Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VII, that there is no safe level of radiation.

PSR Colorado President Dr. Roberta Richardson spoke on the health risks of radiation.

DR. Roberta Richardson calls on Pueblo County Commissioners to vote down the re-zoning of land for a nuclear plant in Pueblo, Colorado

Enacted in 1976, the Toxic Substances Control Act was broken before it began. New legislation seeks to address this broken system and the voice of health professionals is needed!

Martha Dina Argüello, executive director of PSR-Los Angeles, explains the dangers of BPA.

PSR board member Dr. Alan Lockwood explains the health hazards of radiation exposure.

A small anti-nuclear rally outside the Colorado state Capitol on Tuesday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The Colorado Coalition to Prevent Nuclear War and Colorado PSR hosted the event on the west steps of the Capitol.

PSR board member and past president Dr. Jeff Patterson explains the health impacts of radiation and the danger of the Fukushima disaster.