Slow burn: tobacco control in the Americas

WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Dan Kildee (D-MI), and Fred Upton (R-MI) have introduced a House bill to combat toxic pollution from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The PFAS Action Act would require the EPA to classify all PFAS chemicals as “hazardous substances” under the Superfund program within a year...

Link to Council Decision (CFSP) 2019/86 of 21 January 2019 amending Decision (CFSP) 2018/1544 concerning restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons

Several recent epidemiological studies examined associations between exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and various human health outcomes.Richard Christian Jensen and colleagues from the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, investigated “association between five serum PFASs and glucose-related outcomes in pregn...

The Department of Health together with mining houses that operate hospitals in Bojanala District have established a Health Forum to attend to teething healthcare challenges in mining communities. This emerged during a meeting called by Health MEC Madoda Sambatha in Rustenburg yesterday.The meeting was convened to discuss how mining houses can be ab...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, a bipartisan bill that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health, s...