The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
Health & Environment Newsletter
- August 2011 — Are EDCs harmless because they are "swamped" by the body's own hormones?
- July 2011 — Assessing Risk Posed by Chemicals in Mixtures
- June 2011 — Selection Bias in Risk Assessment: a Model
- May 2011 — Could "Relevance" be a Source of Bias in Risk Assessment?
- April 2011 — Does scientific practice meet the needs of regulators?
- March 2011 — The Obesogen Hypothesis
- February 2011 — Chemicals and type-2 diabetes: a short history
- January 2011 — A better way of assessing health risks from chemicals
- December 2010 — The significance of different standards of evidence in determining the safety of pharmaceuticals against the safety of chemicals
- November 2010 — Science and the safety of BPA part 1: Of mice and men
- October 2010 — The role of DEHP in inflammation and compromised immune responses in neonates
- September 2010 — Thyroid disruption special issue: how chemicals can harm health by interfering with thyroid function
- August 2010 — Fire safety chemicals: health concerns explained
- July 2010 — What do endocrine disruptors mean for theories about the origins of breast cancer?
- June 2010 — Is recycled PET safe? Plus Enviromics: adapting genomics to environmental causes of disease
- May 2010 — Green Chemistry: A positive story in environmental chemicals issues
- April 2010 — Epidemiology: how we learn about the effects of the environment on health
- March 2010 — The limitations of traditional toxicology when it comes to low doses of chemicals
- February 2010 — How to handle complex evidence about how the environment affects health
- January 2010 — Epigenetics: how the environment affect health by switching genes on and off
- December 2009 — Spot the difference: can the body distinguish between thyroid hormones and chemical imitators?
- November 2009 — Toxicant exposure and mental health: opportunities for treatment?
- October 2009 — A question of when: can timing of conception affect child health?
- September 2009 — Fear of a fat planet: closing the gaps in understanding obesity
- August 2009 — Rising cancer rates: attention on the environment in the struggle to explain increase in incidence
- July 2009 — Risky assessments: how chemical safety testing fails to anticipate harmful effects on health and the environment
- June 2009 — Night time work environment contributes to increased cancer risk for workers
- May 2009 — Are infection control measures contributing to antibiotic resistance?
- April 2009 — Sending the wrong signals: the danger to long-term health posed by endocrine disruptor exposure during developmental windows
Webinar: How Sustainable Hospitals Are Achieving Major Savings
Health Care Without Harm and The Commonwealth Fund present a webinar based on the recent groundbreaking findings on how hospitals can achieve savings and reduce their carbon footprint through sustainability programs. This one-hour webinar draws on the findings of a recent Health Care Without Harm Research Collaborative/ Commonwealth Fund study, "Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?" which shows that savings from interventions to reduce energy use and waste, and achieve operating room supply efficiencies could exceed $5.4 billion over five years and $15 billion over 10 years for the health care sector. In addition to detailing the study findings, the webinar includes presentations from two health systems about why they chose to focus on sustainability and what challenges and rewards are in store.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?
- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)
