Environmental Health

Warning on scrap conmen

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

CONMEN are posing as environmental health officers to steal scrap metal in north Liverpool.

Saturday Links for the Week: July 19, 2008

How to Save the World (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008

Photo from birdstar.org , one of the amazing shots from the Bond brothers of SW Ontario. Disparity, Poverty and Environmental Health: I'm reading Hervé Kempf's How the Rich are Destroying the Earth (review next week). His message, from France, is essentially the same as Ian Welsh's in his new article There Was a Class War. The Rich Won . The message, and the messages that naturally flow from it, are:...

Department Of Virus Promotion

SaveWRKO (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008

My anti-virus software sent a red alert upon entering the Commonwealth of Mass Bureau of Environmental Health's website. The program detected and isolated a virus the site attempted to use to infect my computer. At least I know the...

Kerry-Snowe bill strengthens safety in nanotechnology research

Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008

Sens. John Kerry and Olympia Snowe this week introduced the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008. The legislation will toughen the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by increasing its commitment to environmental health and safety research.

Health Stressors: an in depth, critical discussion of a current issue and the implications for Environmental Health and the Public Health Agenda

Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008

Introduction The incidence of obesity coincides with the availability of food, obesity being conspicuously absent during famine. It is a serious condition in affluent cultures chiefly because of the abundance of food and the decreased amount of physical activity. During the past 10 to 15 years, there has been a...

Characterization of exposures among cemented tungsten carbide workers. Part I: Size-fractionated exposures to airborne cobalt and tungsten particles

British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008

Characterization of exposures among cemented tungsten carbide workers. Part I: Size-fractionated exposures to airborne cobalt and tungsten particles Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, July 16, 2008. doi:10.1038/jes.2008.37 Authors: Aleksandr B Stefaniak, M Abbas & Gregory A Day

Environmental pollutant has sex-skewing effect

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008

Women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls - a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to give birth to male children. A study published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health found that among women from the San Francisco Bay Area, those exposed to higher levels of PCBs during the 50s and 60s, were significantly more likely to give...

• Environmental pollutant has sex-skewing effect - Eurekalert
• Mothers With High Blood Levels Of PCBS Are Less Likely To Give Birth To Males - Medical News Today
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Closing coal-burning power plant in China and improved cognitive development in children

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008

Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on children's cognitive development and health according to a study released by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study allowed researchers to track and compare the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing...

Good News, Bad News

A Few Things Illconsidered (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

The good news: George W Bush actually does know what a disgrace US economic policy has been for the environmental health of the world. The bad news? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

Aerosol toxins from red tides may cause long-term health threat

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

NOAA scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that an algal toxin commonly inhaled in sea spray, attacks and damages DNA in the lungs of laboratory rats. The findings document how the body's way of disposing the toxin inadvertently converts it to a molecule that damages DNA. Human inhalation of brevetoxins produced by the red tide organism, Karenia brevis,...

A participant-based approach to indoor/outdoor air monitoring in community health studies

British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

A participant-based approach to indoor/outdoor air monitoring in community health studies Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, July 9, 2008. doi:10.1038/jes.2008.39 Authors: Markey Johnson, Edward Hudgens, Ronald Williams, Gina Andrews, Lucas Neas, Jane Gallagher & Halûk Özkaynak

EH&S Environmental Health & Safety Manager

GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

This position is with an FDA regulated manufacturing company and will be responsible for Environmental, Health & Safety for several locations. Duties include establishing consistent procedures and processes across the locations; formulating general EHS policies and measures; inspecting facilities and recommending preventive and corrective actions; providing employee training; maintaining reference...

Virus Transfer from Personal Protective Equipment to Healthcare Employees’ Skin and Clothing

Docuticker (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

Virus Transfer from Personal Protective Equipment to Healthcare Employees’ Skin and Clothing (PDF; 219 KB) Source: Environmental Health Perspectives We evaluated a personal protective equipment removal protocol designed to minimize wearer contamination with pathogens. Following this protocol often resulted in virus transfer to hands and clothing. An altered protocol or other measures are needed to...

Murray-Darling should be declared 'national emergency'

Precious Kingdoms (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

There are dire forecasts for the environmental health of the Coorong region near the Murray mouth. (user submitted: Jack Creevy) The Federal Opposition says the Government must declare the state of the Murray-Darling Basin a national environmental emergency. A leaked scientific report reveals the Government was warned last month that vegetation and wetlands could be lost unless flows are returned to...

Radiation dose assessment of exposure to depleted uranium

British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

Radiation dose assessment of exposure to depleted uranium Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, July 2, 2008. doi:10.1038/jes.2008.40 Authors: Wei Bo Li, Udo C Gerstmann, Vera Höllriegl, Wilfried Szymczak, Paul Roth, Christoph Hoeschen & Uwe Oeh