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    • Is your tap water safe?
      Antibiotics, hormones, a chemical found in gasoline ...research shows that hundreds of unregulated contaminants may be flowing from your tap. No one can say for sure, because the government doesn't require testing for them. And although they're at low levels, no one knows how dangerous they might be when they're all mixed together in the water […]
    • Japan's nuclear crisis goes much further than Fukushima.
      Nuclear waste storage is a glaring weakness in Japan's bid to restore confidence in the nuclear power industry, shredded last year when a quake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power station, triggering radioactive leaks and mass evacuations.
    • Proposed settlement reached in Monsanto dioxin case.
      A proposed settlement has been reached in a huge class-action lawsuit where Nitro residents say the chemical giant Monsanto unsafely burned dioxin wastes and spread contaminated soot and dust across Nitro, polluting homes with unsafe levels of the chemical.
    • Solyndra abandons efforts to go clean and green.
      Federal officials hailed Solyndra LLC’s plan to create clean energy when they awarded the company more than a half-billion dollars in loans, but the solar-panel maker’s abrupt closure now threatens to leave behind an environmental mess.
    • Erin Brockovich slams EPA over toxic waste Superfund site in Le Roy, New York.
      More than four decades after a train derailment left a massive toxic chemical spill in a small upstate New York town, the EPA announced Wednesday that they will begin removing 235 drums of dirt still sitting on the site. The site is in Le Roy, the same town that has received national attention because a group of girls suddenly began displaying Tourettes-like […]
    • US readies onslaught against BP.
      When a civil case against BP PLC opens on Monday, federal prosecutors plan to accuse the oil giant of making a series of decisions that caused it to be grossly negligent in the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to sealed documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
    • EPA chief: 'Fracking' can be OK.
      U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson told energy industry leaders and environmentalists Wednesday that natural gas fracking can be done without harmful impacts, presenting “an historic opportunity” for the country in terms of energy development and job creation.
    • Fracking depletes water supply.
      When water is used for fracking, it's used to extinction. While water used for agriculture and most other uses is returned into the hydrological cycle and used again, most water used for fracking is not.
    • Some states unprepared for shale energy boom.
      Expansive underground gas and oil fields being tapped in the nation's industrial heartland have brought hopes of prosperity and riches to a region that has been in economic decay for a half-century. But the new boom has the states struggling to figure out how to tax and regulate the drilling.
    • South Pacific small island states to link marine reserves.
      Small island states in the South Pacific are to link up their marine reserves this year in an effort to sustainably manage one-tenth of the world's oceans. The project aims to ease the impacts of overfishing, pollution, acidification and climate change and covers an area bigger than the combined territories of the US and Canada.
    • Google’s newest frontier: The ocean.
      A new partnership between Google, oceanographers and an international insurance and reinsurance company, aims to bring the delights of the Great Barrier Reef to living rooms across the world, in the hopes that the beauty of the reef will highlight the immense loss to the world if it were to be destroyed.
    • How climate change could be the ruin of Los Angeles.
      Few cities are facing the serious environmental double whammy that's most likely in store for Los Angeles. Not only do scientists predict that sea level rise will increase coastal flooding, but rising temperatures could threaten the Sierra Nevada snowpack that provides about a third of L.A.'s drinking water.
    • Latinos emerging as new actors in fight against climate change.
      Most people view immigration, education and jobs as the Latino electorate’s key issues. Environmentalists want to add climate change to the list.
    • A tiny horse that got even tinier as the planet heated up.
      Rising seas, killer storms, droughts, extinctions and money wasted on snowblowers are not the only things to worry about on a warming planet. There is also the shrinking issue.
    • In-house power plants foul the air, study says.
      Some small industrial power plants, which provide heat and electricity to refineries, chemical plants, steel mills and other major manufacturing facilities, pollute the air in Pennsylvania and across the U.S., according to a new study by Earthjustice.
    • High levels of dioxin found in New Jersey's Passaic River mud flats.
      Some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxin in the Passaic River - already a Superfund site and among the nation’s most polluted waterways - have been found in mud flats on the banks of Lyndhurst, just feet from Riverside County Park and its ballfields, tennis courts, playground and walking trails.
    • Fears over plastic packaging safety.
      Scientists have called for "drug-style safety trials" to be carried out on a chemical commonly used in plastic food packaging-- bisphenol A-- after research suggested it could be linked to an increased risk of developing heart disease.
    • Grant to study decades of effluent on First Nation 'empowering.'
      They know what the lagoon looks like after decades as a dumping site for pulp mill effluent - brown and frothy, an unpalatable root beer float in Nova Scotia's Pictou County. They know what Boat Harbour smells like, too: cabbage at best, sulphur at worst. But what residents of the Pictou Landing First Nation don't know is whether waste water near t […]
    • Bird flu may not be so deadly after all, new analysis claims.
      Bird flu may be far less lethal to people than the World Health Organization's assessment of a death rate topping 50 percent, scientists said on Thursday in a finding that adds fuel to the heated controversy over publication of bird flu research.
    • Antimony.
      What do flame retardants, eye cosmetics and Mozart have in common? Antimony. It has no known biological role, but it is a potent toxin, with effects that are similar to arsenic poisoning.
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Pandemic influenza prevention for minority pregnant women

Posted on Thursday, 1 December 2011 by leshondawallace

This presentation focuses on efforts to increase awareness of the racial disparity in influenza illness for pregnant women, acknowledge barriers to prevention and offer strategies to improve health outcomes.

This presentation is directed to clinicians who are associated with the Department of Health and Human Services, Non-government Maternity Clinics, Primary Care or OB&GYN Practices.

Please click here to view presentation.App9WallaceL  I hope that the information is helpful. If you have any questions, or care to leave a comment, please do so, below. Thank you.

LeShonda Wallace

PUBH 8165-01, Environmental Health Walden University

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    • Chemical exposures cause child IQ losses that rival major diseases.
      Three common environmental chemicals - lead, organophosphate pesticides and methylmercury - may have effects on children's IQ in the overall population similar to the impacts of major medical conditions such as preterm birth or ADHD – two of the most prevalent in U.S. children.
    • Insecticide in infant's first stool linked to underdeveloped motor skills later.
      Higher prenatal exposure to an insecticide commonly used worldwide was associated with poorer motor development in the children at 2 years of age, suggesting that fetal carbamate pesticide exposures may have lasting consequences.
    • Infertile couples have higher exposure to phthalates.
      Infertile couples are exposed to three to five times higher levels of phthalates compared to fertile couples who have naturally conceived a child, finds a study from Italy.
    • Solvent exposure at work, home may increase risk of Parkinson's disease.
      Even relatively limited exposure to some common chemical solvents at work or through hobbies may increase the risk of having Parkinson's disease (PD), report researchers who found a higher risk regardless of the number of exposures, their duration or lifetime totals.
    • Texas tweens have high levels of persistent organic pollutants.
      Older children have higher levels of Teflon-related chemicals called PFCs - used in products to prevent staining and sticking - than younger children, although their levels are lower than a decade ago.
    • Rice consumption linked to higher arsenic levels in pregnant women.
      Eating even relatively modest levels of rice - about a half a cup of cooked rice a day - can significantly contribute to arsenic exposure in the U.S. population, reports a study of pregnant women who live in New Hampshire.
    • Childhood obesity linked to phthalate exposure.
      Overweight children tend to have higher levels of certain phthalate metabolites in their urine, according to a year-long study of minority children in New York City. Researchers found that a 10-fold increase in MEP concentrations was associated with subsequent increases in body mass index and waist size.
    • 'Inactive' phthalates widespread in medications.
      Researchers from Boston University and Harvard University found more than 100 different prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and dietary supplements contain phthalates as inactive ingredients. That is, the chemicals do not act as medicines but instead carry and deliver the medicinal ingredients.
    • Genetically speaking, captivity is fishy business.
      It takes just a single generation in captivity to genetically change a wild fish's offspring so they are less able to reproduce in the wild, report researchers who studied three generations of the endangered steelhead fish from Oregon's Hood River.
    • Smoking during pregnancy has lasting effects on daughters.
      Women were more likely to be obese, have high blood pressure or have gestational diabetes during pregnancy if their mother smoked while pregnant, finds a study of more than 70,000 women in Norway.
    • PCBs could harm babies' immune system.
      PCBs may interfere with immune system development in infants exposed in the womb and early in life, report researchers from the United States and Slovakia. Infants with higher PCB exposure during gestation and as newborns had smaller thymus organs at birth and at 6 months of age but not at 13 months.
    • Alzheimer's-like brain changes seen in young who breathed polluted air.
      Children and young adults from areas with highly polluted air in Mexico had physical and genetic changes in their brains akin to those found in adults with Alzheimer's disease. The changes seen are surprising because they are not supposed to occur in younger brains.
    • Gas cooking emissions may stifle infant development.
      A new study from Spain reports that infants born to mothers who cooked with gas stoves had slightly lower intelligence scores at ages 1 and 2 than those in homes without gas cookers. In homes with gas, infant scores were better if there was an exhaust fan above the stove.
    • Pessimistically, lead may taint your outlook.
      Lead exposure may increase lifelong pessimism, according to a new study. Researchers found that lead levels in aging men were associated with increased pessimism even after controlling for other important factors such as socioeconomic status.
    • Eating mercury-tainted fish affects essential stress hormones in children.
      A new study raises concern about children's exposure to mercury through fish eating, tying it for the first time to hormone changes that increase chronic stress and associated immune system dysfunction. The highest mercury levels detected in the study had about 20-25 percent lower cortisol in saliva samples compared with lowest mercury levels.
    • Early-life exposures to solvent linked to drug abuse.
      A new study found that higher in utero and childhood exposure to a solvent known as PCE, or tetrachloroethylene, increased the risk of cigarette, drug, and alcohol use as a teenager and young adult.
    • Plasticizer increases miscarriage risk.
      In the first study of its kind, scientists in Denmark report that women exposed near the time of conception to relatively common levels of a particular phthalate are more likely to experience early pregnancy loss compared to women with lower exposures.
    • Fish pass flame retardants, impaired health to offspring.
      Fish exposed to low levels of common flame retardants called PBDEs for most of their lives pass the chemicals – and more surprisingly, the associated toxic effects – along to their progeny. While parent's health effects were minimal, the exposures reduced hatch rates and altered the thyroid hormone system of the next generation.
    • Widespread BPA contamination in paper products, study suggests.
      Bisphenol A seems impossible to avoid. It contaminates food, thermal receipts and drinks served in certain plastic bottles. A new study finds its reach goes even further. Researchers detected trace amounts of BPA in a wide variety of paper products most of us touch every day.
    • Scientists predict bleak future for mercury pollution.
      Worldwide mercury pollution is expected to increase dramatically by 2050, unless major policy changes are implemented. Even the best-case scenario suggests major actions will only dent mercury deposition to the United States. Once emitted, mercury can be deposited within days, but some stays aloft for months.
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