Healing Environment Articles & Analysis
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You have it on toast, you sweeten your tea with it, you use it as a substitute when baking, and one spoon full when that throat tickles!Yes, honey has been mankind’s best friend, second to dogs, for some time! Its history has been intertwined with that of human communities over the span of millennia. Humans have been able to recognise its amazing value as a nutritious food item, a sweetener ...
On January 20, 2021, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe and 12 other health, environment, and justice organizations sent a letter to Bjorn Hansen, Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) “seeking clarifications on both the applicable legal framework and risk management measures in place, for nano/biocidal-treated articles in the context of the ...
“DDD is a complex medical condition characterized by inflammation and breakdown of intervertebral disc tissue, making it a highly complicated environment to heal,” said Domagoj Coric, M.D. of Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates and Spine Division Chief of Atrium’s Musculoskeletal Institute as well as the study’s principal ...
“These new findings add to well-founded concerns about the toxicity of glyphosate and glyphosate-based formulations for humans and further cast doubt on the recent reauthorisation of this herbicide onto the European market”, says Natacha Cingotti at the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL). “Considering how widely Europeans are exposed to ...
Jensen, Executive Director of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL). “We will remain to stand strong alongside Paul François and all workers and farmers and their families suffering from exposure to ...
Jensen, Executive Director of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) commented: “Pollution poses substantial risks to public health and the environment and leaves no country and no one unaffected. ...
Perma Pure LLC, a global leader of gas conditioning solutions for medical, scientific, and environmental monitoring applications, today announced that the Company will exhibit at COMPAMED 2016, Nov. 14-17, in Düsseldorf, Germany. This event, which takes place in connection with the MEDICA conference and exhibition, brings together medical equipment industry leaders to demonstrate new ...
Kaiser Permanente's model is built with both people and the environment in mind, with an emphasis on total health and patient empowerment. The winning small hospital design will provide a patient-centered healing environment that has near-zero impact on the environment while providing access to the latest technology to improve ...
The NGO, the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN), of which HEAL is a member, has welcomed this move but calls for tighter control measures of three of the listed chemicals. ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency have come under fire from leading NGOs for its outdated testing program of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. It is feared that the numerous holes in the current programme fail to detect many serious effects on human development. The Environmental Protection Agency is ready to start testing 67 pesticide ingredients for their possible endocrine disruption ...
A recent Environment Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised countries showed renewed focus on children’s health as a fundamental objective of environmental protection and sustainable development. The meeting, held in Siracusa, Italy on April 22-24 2009 was attended by Environment Ministers and senior officials from G8 countries and the European Commission, as well as ...
The report raised serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating levels of EMF exposure. The European Environment Agency contributed to this report warning that further delay in taking precautionary measures could lead to a health crisis similar to those caused by asbestos, smoking and lead in petrol. ...
In January 2009, new European rules sought to remove the risks associated with pesticide exposure for the environment and especially in relation to human health. Public awareness raising about these new rules is hugely important. At the end of 2008, HEAL and the Mouvement pour les Droits et le Respect des Générations Futures launched the ‘Sick of ...
As Mercury is a chemical element it is indestructible, this means we have a 'global pool' of mercury in the environment - between air, water, sediments, soil and living organisms. ...
The United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency recently released a document detailing how the environment affects children’s health and what can be done to improve current conditions. This report is based on the World Health Organisation’s Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE), in which participating countries from across the European Region agreed to develop plans to ...
Exposure to hormone-disruptive chemicals, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs, is thought to be a key factor, but there are other relevant chemicals found in the environment, such as pesticides and phthalates (widely used in consumer products, such as plastics). ...