Environmental

Wall of Hope comes to Blackhawk
Project aims to help cancer survivors live and thrive
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Activist: Let's Focus on cancer causes
Prevention, rather than treatment, should be focus of research.
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Body Burden, The Pollution in Newborns
A benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants, and pesticides in human umbilical cord blood.
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Environmental Toxin Glossary
Chemical Key

How to Solve the Cancer Problem - By Marilyn Axelrod Burch
Survivors of Cancer wants to concentrate on Causes; not "Cures"
It is almost impossible to synthesize the feelings of more than 1,500 survivors, the commitment of more than 80 countries representatives at three World Conferences on Breast Cancer, and voices from the past like that of Rachel Carson.
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What's In You
In a pioneering study, we tested a Bay Area family for a suite of chemical pollutants. The results stunned even scientists.
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The Great Experiment
Sometime in late 1997, 3M Corp. medical director Dr. Larry Zobel learned of a troubling stain on his company's signature product: Everyone's blood in the United States apparantly was contaminated with a tiny amount of a chemical used to make Scotchgard, his company's famously successful stain-resistant spray.
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The Body Chemical
No one can prove the link. But it's there. It's there for Susan Liroff, diagnosed with breast cancer, who spent the 1950s on Long Island - where DDT saw liberal application - and the 1970s as a veterinary technician in California, bathing pets in malathion and other since-banned pesticides.
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Body Toxins Bill Moves Closer to Law
Parents of Berkeley family that tested for contaminants testify. California moved closer Tuesday to the establishment of the country's only statewide biomonitoring program, aimed at tracking chemicals such as plastics and flame retardants that scientists increasingly find in our bodies.
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Reduce Your Chemical Dependency
How to heat food in the microwave. What really happens when you reheat your leftovers in that yogurt container? Chemicals leach out of plastics, particularly when that plastic is used for fatty foods such as meat and cheese, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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What Can I Do?
That's been the most common response to this newspaper's investigation into the chemicals we are carrying around in our bodies.
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Cancer and Environment
http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/
Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors. Providing science based information on environmental factors and cancer risk.

Mercury and Tuna: U.S. Advice Leaves Lots of Questions
One by one, Matthew Davis's fifth-grade teachers went around the table describing the 10-year-old boy. He wasn't focused in class and often missed assignments, they said.
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