Physicians for Social Responsibility

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What We Cannot Cure

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

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Campaign Update

Join 16 Nobel Peace laureates – sign onto the Avaaz petition!

IPPNW, ICAN, and 14 other Nobel Peace laureates are inviting you to sign onto their international Avaaz petition directed at NATO and the Russian Federation.

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Is nuclear deterrence “keeping the peace”? Ask the Ukrainians.

For decades, American "international security experts" have explained that the nuclear-armed nations retain nuclear weapons "to keep the peace." President Vladimir Putin proved that this is a false narrative.

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PSR Testifies before U.S. EPA

Climate Ambassadors Dr. Alan Lockwood and Dr. Janis Petzel, board members Dr. Mike Martin and Dr. Todd Sack, and E&H Director Barb Gottlieb all testified at a virtual EPA hearing on the Mercury and Air...

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The Kids Are Alright: Youth Orgs Centered on Nuclear Disarmament Activism and Beyond

We all know the youth are our future. And if Gen Z is any indication of what the future holds, we might be alright too. With the power of the...

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PSR Calls for Gas Stoves Hearing

PSR is joining with allies to ask Congress to hold a hearing on health harms from gas stoves. Gas stoves emit health-harming pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, that can exacerbate pre-existing...

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Global medical and public health organizations call for immediate end to war in Ukraine and critical need to prevent nuclear escalation

The alarmingly acute and growing danger of nuclear escalation must be reversed and nuclear war prevented by the urgent elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Campaign Update

Cooking With Gas: Health Harms from Gas Stoves

Watch now: PSR training on harmful air pollutants from gas stoves, their negative health impacts, the exacerbated impacts on vulnerable populations, and how clinicians can help patients reduce their risk.

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Press Release

Physicians for Social Responsibility Condemns the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Physicians for Social Responsibility condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and urges immediate de-escalation of this conflict with the goal of ending harm to civilians.

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Action Alert

Europe Needs Heat Pumps, Not Methane Gas

Call on President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to ramp up heat pump production, and let's keep Europe warm and the climate cool.

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In the News

War in Ukraine highlights clear need to abolish nuclear weapons

Asheville Citizen-Times op-ed by Scott Allan Baker, chair of Western North Carolina PSR.

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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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