The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against

America’s Veterans
Aaron Glantz, unembeded journalist, broadcaster from Winter

Soldier: Iraq as well as Afghanistan has just come out with his new

book.
The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle against

America’s Veterans is the first book to systematically

document the U.S. government’s neglect of soldiers

returning from Iraq as well as Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who

reported extensively from Iraq during the first three ye

Panel: EPA must consider effects of chemical barrage
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Chemicals that interfere with the male hormone system are so common — as well as so potentially damaging — that the government should stop studying them one by one as well as consider their combined effect, an expert panel said Thursday.
Phthalates as well as other hormone-disrupting chemicals pollute the air, water as well as dust as well as are found in hundreds of consumer products — including bug spray, perfume, pesticides, shower curtains, food containers, as well as plastic toys, according to a report released today from the National Research Council, which advises the government on science policy.
Studies from the Centers on behalf of Disease Control as well as Prevention as well as independent scientists have found phthalates in virtually everyone, including pregnant women as well as babies.

Environment as well as Health

Winter 2009; Wednesdays 5:00-7:00 PM

Room: Toland Hall (UC Hall, Room U-142, UCSF Parnassus)
1 unit (5 sessions) through M170C Department of Medicine

OR

2 units (10 sessions) through N248 School of Nursing

Auditors Welcome
Faculty of Record:

Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Division of Occupational as well as Environmental Medicine gina.solomon@ucsf.edu

Barbara Burgel, RN, PhD, FAAN, Occupational as well as Environmental Health Nursing Program: Barbara.burgel@nursing.ucsf.e

SF Bay Area Physicians For Social Responsibility
 
December Event
Join Us Monday December 15th at 6:30 PM
-Hear a talk by UCLA Professor as well as public health expert Dr. Dick Jackson
-Meet SF PSR Staff as well as Steering Committee
-Mingle with other PSR Members
-Hear about our chapter activities as well as how to get involved
Where: At the residence (1515 16th Ave., SF) of Steering Committee Member Tom Hall (Directions Be

From New England Journal Of Medicine 10/23/2008 Issue

Prescription on behalf of Survival:
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