Physicians for Social Responsibility

We Must Prevent
What We Cannot Cure

Mobilizing health professionals on issues that represent the gravest dangers to human health.

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Campaign Update

PSR Chapters Focus on Nuclear Weapons in August Recess Meetings

On August 6, activists from PSR Los Angeles, Beyond the Bomb, Nuclear Free Schools, Vets for Peace, and Peace Action, met with Representative Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence...

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Action Alert

Ask the presidential candidates about climate change!

Finally, a presidential candidate forum that focuses on the climate crisis! Now you can submit questions to assure that the candidates address climate change impacts on human health.

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Campaign Update

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2019

August 6, 1945. August 9, 1945. Seventy-four years ago, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the most horrific acts of warfare in history. This...

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Campaign Update

Join PSR and UCS on Sept. 25 for a webinar on Back from the Brink

Union of Concerned Scientists and PSR are proud to be co-hosting a webinar to highlight the Back from the Brink Campaign on September 25. Back from the Brink: The Call...

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Action Alert

Citizen Advocacy for Climate Action Now: 100% Clean Energy Economy

Citizen Advocacy Opportunity: Meet with your U.S. Representative while they are in-state, asking for their support of the "100% Clean Energy Economy of 2019" bill.

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Campaign Update

“Heat, Fire, Water” and the Public Health Emergency

Extreme heat, billowing wildfires, and water—either too much or not enough—are today’s faces of climate change. PSR board member Alan Lockwood, MD, FAAN profiles the health effects of these frightening...

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Campaign Update

Medical Schools Now Moving to Teach Future Doctors to Address Climate Change

In a healthy and welcome trend, physicians are persuading medical schools to teach the nation’s future doctors about the connection between climate and health, so our future health professionals are...

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Campaign Update

PSR Opposes LNG-by-Rail

PSR opposes the Trump Administration’s reckless proposal to allow liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be hauled by train. If such a train were to derail, the result could be a...

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Press Release

Physicians for Social Responsibility Opposes U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty

PSR firmly opposes President Donald Trump’s dangerous decision to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Read our statement.

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Campaign Update

AMA Adopts Sweeping Climate Change Education Policy

The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted at its June 2019 meeting a sweeping new policy that pledges the organization to promote education for medical students and physicians on the topic...

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Campaign Update

Recent Heat Wave Kills Six, Harms Health of Others

This past weekend’s heat wave across the country had lethal consequences. According to estimates, six people have died from heat-related illnesses. Millions more endured the heat and may suffer subsequent...

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In the News

Preventing Nuclear War

Robert Dodge, MD | New York Times Letter to the editor from PSR board member and PSR-LA President Dr. Robert Dodge on the need for nuclear weapons abolition. Read more...

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Areas of Focus

PSR advocates on the issues you care about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our medical and public health expertise to prevent nuclear war and proliferation, reverse our trajectory towards climate change, protect the public and our environment from toxic chemicals and eliminate the use of nuclear power.

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