Health – News
- • New Research Links Health Problems with Oil and Natural Gas Development: Oct. 18, 2012, The largest health survey to-date of Marcellus Shale residents living near oil and gas development shows a clear pattern of negative health impacts associated with living near gas facilities, according to a new report released by Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project today. Released in association with ShaleTest, Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania surveyed 108 residents in 14 Pennsylvania counties...
- • ‘Beyond the Horizons’ Clinic Fosters Health, Goodwill: June 28, 2012, Thousands of local residents in this remote mountain village are getting what for many is one of their first experiences seeing a doctor, nurse or dentist during a five-day medical readiness training exercise being conducted here during Beyond the Horizons 2012. U.S. service members, working hand in hand with Guatemalan doctors and...
- • Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields: Effects on Human Health: June 2012, For more than 50 years, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has been studying and treating the effects of the environment on human health. In the last 20 years, AAEM physicians began seeing patients who reported that electric power lines, televisions and other electrical devices caused a wide variety of symptoms. By the mid-1990s, it became clear that patients were adversely affected by electromagnetic fields and becoming more electrically sensitive...
- • Radiation Risk to Humans Differs Between GSM and CDMA Cell Phone Technology: Jan. 6, 2011, The Council of Europe’s recent resolution on the need to reduce exposures to electromagnetic fields focused on cell phones with “continuous pulse waves”, the kind emitted by GSM phones (e.g. AT&T & T-Mobile) but not by CDMA (Verizon, Sprint), says Joel Moskowitz, PhD, Director, Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley...
- • Chromium-6 Is Widespread in US Tap Water: Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have detected hexavalent chromium, the carcinogenic “Erin Brockovich chemical,” in tap water from 31 of 35 American cities. The highest levels were in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside, Calif. In all, water samples from 25 cities contained the toxic metal at concentrations above the safe maximum recently proposed by California regulators...
- • Sustainability Roadmaps for Hospitals: Today’s health care leaders are approaching sustainability with many different priorities, opinions, and perspectives. Every hospital has a different mix of drivers and motivators for taking on sustainability as a goal. For some, being in compliance in a high-risk regulatory environment is a driver. Others are responding to external pressure to address environmental issues like climate change or resource conservation...
