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APHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pleased to continue the webinar series Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role.
This year, we offer two webinars where public health leaders will present accomplishments, challenges and promising opportunities around climate change and public health policy and practice. Join us for the second webinar. 
“A Look at the Health Costs of Climate Change and Co-Benefits of Climate Action” May 16, 20121:30 p.m.... Read full post

--While chlorpyrifos is no longer registered for household use in the U.S., it continues to be widely used around the world, as well as on many food and agricultural products throughout the U.S.-- NEW YORK (April 30, 2012) - Even low to moderate levels of exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos during pregnancy may lead to long-term, potentially irreversible changes in the brain structure of the child, according to a new brain imaging study by researchers from the Columbia Center for... Read full post

The rise in childhood and young adult cancer is simply unacceptable. Learning and developmental disabilities are on the rise in alarming rates. Some are calling puberty at the age of ten “normal.” 
 
We know that this country is on the wrong track when it comes to our health. Toxic chemicals are only one piece of the equation, but chemicals are the piece we can do something about.  
 
Last summer, nurses across the country joined moms, kids, and other members... Read full post

Take the first of many steps to living and working more sustainably
In honor of Earth Day 2012, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is challenging all nurses to turn over a new leaf and start greening their nursing practice, homes, and communities. Click the photos below to discover resources that can help you take that first step. You can also download a pdf flier with active links to all of these resources. Download our: ANHE Earth Day... Read full post

Funding Opportunity through the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)  Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (CEHCs)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by NIEHS and EPA encourages grant applications to support a transdisciplinary program of basic and applied research to examine the effects of environmental factors on children’s health and well-being. EPA and NIEHS... Read full post

This is the first in a series of webinars that the Practice Work Group are hosting this year to help ALL practiting nurses understand the links between our health and the environment.
Get registered by clicking here now!!
Download a flyer to post and share with your friends.
Hope to see you and your friends online in May.

Business Leaders and Health Advocates Urge Senate to Follow Suit to Protect Babies and Children from Cancer-Causing Chemical
Albany, NY – In a bipartisan victory for children's health, the New York State Assembly passed A. 9045, which expands the Tris-free Children and Babies Act to include the form of tris (TDCPP) that was removed from children's sleepwear in 1979 because it can mutate DNA.  Studies have since shown that TDCPP can harm the developing brain,  disrupt... Read full post

There’s nothing more important to nurses than their family, patients, and communities.  
Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act have been under attack from some members of Congress who have put protecting polluters ahead of protecting public health!  Nurses from around the country have been outraged as they recognize that any action by Congress to block the EPA from updating the Clean Air Act, or any delay on behalf of the Administration to avoid... Read full post

Just up at public health blog, The Pump Handle: "Risking their health while caring for others: Reproductive health hazards of germ-killers"
Nurses face many health hazards & one that demands more study is the effects of exposure to medical sterilizing agents that appear to double the risk of miscarriage. Some of these compounds are known carcinogens and mutagens. Among these compounds is formaldehyde – which is also prevalent in another profession dominated by women: beauty salon... Read full post

Published in the March 2012 Environmental Health Perspectives
Two of the authors are ANHE members!
Barbara J. Polivka, Rosemary V. Chaudry, John Mac Crawford
Abstract
Background: Climate change affects human health, and health departments are urged to act to reduce the severity of these impacts. Yet little is known about the perspective of public health nurses—the largest component of the public health workforce—regarding their roles in addressing health impacts of climate... Read full post