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Health workers tested for chemicals
October 9, 2009
A summary of PSR's Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care study.
Source: New Haven Register (Connecticut)
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Tests reveal nurses and doctors loaded with toxins
October 9, 2009
Dr. George Lundgren discusses his participation in PSR's Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care study.
Source: KARE (Minnesota)
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Toxic chemicals found in Maine health workers
October 9, 2009
Doctors and nurses in 10 states, including Maine, tested positive for at least 24 different toxic chemicals in their blood and other body fluids in a study released Thursday by the national organization Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Source: Bangor Daily News
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Stop stalling on nuclear arms control
October 8, 2009
An editorial on PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand and his work to abolish nuclear weapons.
Source: The Times Record (Maine)
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Nuke weapons foe speaks in Maine
October 5, 2009
Dr. Ira Helfand, a co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, is bringing his anti-nuclear weapons message to Maine.
Source: WCSH
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An Interview with Dr Steven Moffic
October 1, 2009
An Interview with Dr H. Steven Moffic of Milwaukee, who has compiled and authored a very important "Global Warming Mental Health Fact Sheet" of the Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington, DC.
Source: Northward Ho
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Obama: U.S. must lead disarmament effort
September 28, 2009
A letter to the editor from Washington PSR Executive Director Cherie Eichholz.
Source: The News Tribune
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Ira Helfand/John O. Pastore: Prescribing real change in U.S. nuclear policy
September 27, 2009
An op-ed by PSR's Ira Helfand, MD and John O. Pastore, MD on Obama's efforts on nuclear weapons policy.
Source: The Providence Journal
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PSR Philadelphia Is Finalist for Award
September 24, 2009
PSR Philadelphia is one of the finalists for a Toms Of Maine award of $20,000. There will be 5 finalists determined by vote. Each person can vote 5 times per day. Voting is on the TomsofMaine website. Fifty finalists are featured at www.50statesforgood.com, where the public can learn more about community efforts around the country and vote to determine which five projects will split $100,000 in funding.
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Wash. says deal will cut pollution at coal plant
September 10, 2009
Cherie Eicholz, Executive Director of Washington PSR, discusses the health impacts of coal pollution.
Source: CNBC
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USA Today features PSR-NWF report on heat waves
August 25, 2009
PSR and the National Wildlife Federation today released More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming’s Wake Up Call, a new report describing the health dangers from extreme heat and identifying the 30 U.S. cities whose populations are most vulnerable.
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Environmental groups say chemical wastewater treatments pose widespread health and security risks
August 19, 2009
Dr. Donald Mellman of Tampa Bay PSR discusses the dangers of a chemical water treatment plant.
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Governor Vetoes HB 2940
August 12, 2009
PSR Board Member Joe Miller, PhD submits message to Gov. Kulongoski.
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WPSR Editorial in Seattle Times
August 11, 2009
More than 50 years after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States has a golden opportunity to salvage the promise it made in an international 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Source: Copyright © The Seattle Times Company
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
August 7, 2009
Op-ed by Robert Dodge, MD of Ventura County Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Source: CounterPunch
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Nobody's Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills
July 31, 2009
Fairer societies simply work better. An article by PSR member Dr. Jeff Ritterman.
Source: Alternet
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Global Cooling the Likely Result of Nuclear War
July 28, 2009
Steven Starr, a Senior Scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility based at the University of Missouri, will be speaking this Friday 31 July at the University of Sydney about the dangers presented by the world's 23,000 warheads.
Source: AZoCleantech.com
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Is the proposed clean energy agency a dirty deal for taxpayers and the environment?
July 27, 2009
Michele Boyd, head of PSR's Safe Energy program, discusses nuclear power in the Senate climate bill.
Source: Facing South
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Exploring the Harmful Effects of Health Care
July 27, 2009
PSR Member Charles Kilo, MD, MPH Comments on the Harm that U.S. Health Care Currently Delivers
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Nuclear Disarmament: A Commentary
July 8, 2009
PSR member and advocate Dr. Barbara Warren on KUAT, Tucson’s PBS station with a commentary on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and nuclear disarmament.
Source: PBS