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Environmental Injury, Chemical Illness Related Articles and Reports

 

1 in 4 Canadian sick from Environment

20 years of standard patch testing in an eczema population with focus on patients with multiple contact allergies

A cross-sectional study of self-reported chemical-related sensitivity is associated with gene variants of drug metabolizing enzymes.

A Role of The Nursing Counseling Room for Chemical Sensitivity

Abdiction Addiction

Activated Charcoal Universal Antidote and Detoxifier

Advice for parents-to-be, pregnant women and their partners - and those who take care of them

Air in the home could affect infant health

All about formaldehyde

Alison Johnson's video about Chemical Sensitivity

Allergens in combination have a synergistic effect on the elicitation response

Allergic to the 21st century

Allergy suffers bothered by more than allergens

An Allergy Free Car?

Analysis of toxicity using metallothionein knockout mice.

Anaesthesia for patients with idiopathic environmental intolerance and chronic fatigue syndrome

Angioedema provoked by olfactory stimuli.

Antibacterial battle

Argos toxic sofa ‘killed our mum’

Association between Agent Orange and birth defects: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Asthma and chemical hypersensitivity: prevalence, etiology, and age of onset

At death's door ... but fighting back

Be aware of chemical sensitivity

BIOCHEMICAL NEEDS IN CHEMICAL INJURY

Body Burden Test

Boundary objects in the multidisciplinary care management of chronic conditions: multiple chemical sensitivity

Calcium Bentonite Clay Provides Safe Protection from Environmental Toxins

Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM):Trichloroethylene (TCE) Toxicity

Cat Disease Linked To Flame Retardants In Furniture And To Pet Food

Central Sensitivity Syndromes: A New Paradigm and Group Nosology for versus Illness.

Checking out the chemicals in your blood

Chelation Detox Eliminates Mercury and Heavy Metals and Leads to Better Health

Chemical allergies lead to a new ministry.

Chemical Illness Response:  Guidelines for Public Health Investigations of Acute Onset Illness Clusters of Chemical Etiology.

Chemical Incitants in the Home Environment

Chemical-related illnesses cost state

Chemical Sensitivity 

Chemical Sensitivity: Principles and Mechanisms- Book (inside preview)

Chemical sensitivity and its clinical characteristics in Japan

Chemical sensitivity amplification of porphyrins nanotubes

Chemical Sensitivity in Patients with Fibromyalgia

Chemical Sensitivity: Alleviating the Acute Ailments

Chemicals pose health crisis, conferences told: Speakers say regulators failing to address hazards from environmental toxins

Children's cognitive health: the influence of environmental chemical exposures.

Chlorinaion products: emerging links with allergic disease

City looks at supporting motion on toxic chemicals

Classification of Patients Complaining of Sick House Syndrome and/or Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Clinical characteristics of physician-diagnosed patients with multiple chemical sensitivity in Japan

CO Pipeline in mid of Germany

Common Etiology for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), and Fibromyalgia (FM) Centered on Elevated Levels of Nitric Oxide, Its Oxidant Product, Peroxynitrite and NMDA Activity.

Consequences of childhood chemical injury!   

Considerations for testing irritancy, allergy,and photoreactivity in fragrance safety evaluations.

Dangerous Lead Levels in Seemingly Innocent Garden Hoses

'Dangerous' levels of arsenic in 10% of rice

Danish Environmental Protection Agency on MCS

Data on area's toxic chemicals hard to find

Death by Blackberry?

Dermal Absorption of Solvents as a Major Source of Exposure

Detection of low-level environmental chemical allergy by a long-term sensitization method.

Detox Information

Detox Symptoms are Often What Medical Folks Call Disease

Diagnosis controversial, but a Canadian researcher is 'totally convinced'

Diesel pollution clogs arteries

Don't inhale that new car smell

Drug intolerance in patients with idiopathic environmental intolerance syndrome.

Earthquake Tips for People with Environmental Illness or Chemical Sensitivities

Effects of industrial solvents on hearing and balance

Environmental allergies shrink woman's world

Environmental groups calls triclosan a ubiquitous menace

Environmental Illness Interview with William J. Rea, M.D.

Environmental issues and work: women with multiple chemical sensitivities.

Environmental Medicine Evaluation of Electromagnetic Fields

Environmental Toxins-Time magazine

Environmentally Induced Autoimmune Diseases: Potential Mechanisms

EPA tests for toxic vapor intrusion on Long Island

EPA's TEACH :  Updated On-line Chemical Summaries - Arsenic and Benzo(a)pyrene

Evaluation of subjective symptoms of Japanese patients with multiple chemical sensitivity using QEESI

Exclusive Interview with Dr. William J. Rea

Export of toxic chemicals - A review of the case of uncontrolled electronic-waste recycling

Exposed:  Documentary on chemically injured woman

Factors governing susceptibility to chemical allergy

FDA Quietly Acknowledges Medical Benefits of Honey

FEMA ignored evidence in determining long-term effects of formaldehyde in trailers

Fish from Local Lakes Raise Health Concerns

For people with chemical sensitivities, being exposed to certain fragrances is no bouquet of roses.

Genetic Factors in Chemical Sensitivity

Genetic polymorphism of metabolic enzymes modifies the risk of chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy

Glutathione Depletion-Methylation Cycle Block: A Hypothesis For the Pathogenesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Hazard warning on home cleaners

HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN SYNTHETIC TURF: FOLLOW-UP ANALYSES

Health Hazards in Household Cleaners Exposed

Health hazards in IT revolution

Healthy Buildings: Impact on Nurses and Nursing Practice

Home Landscapes for Environmental Sensitivity

Hospital Guide for the Environmentally Ill Patient

Hospitals move to phase out chemical

Hot liquids release potentially harmful chemicals in polycarbonate plastic bottles

Household chemicals causing "silent pandemic"

Household hazard study gaining national attention

Household Hazards Potential Hazards of Home Cleaning Products

How Allergies and Chemical Sensitivities Impact Liver Health

Human hair as a potential biomonitor for assessing persistent organic pollutants.

Human reactions to low concentrations of volatile organic compounds

Hypoadrenia: a causative factor in MCS and impaired enzymatic detoxification

If you have allergies, check this holiday list twice

Illness in Nurses Linked to Hazardous Materials on the Job

Independent Living Centers

Interview with William Rea, MD

Is That New Car Smell Toxic?

KILLING US SOFTLY- free ebook

Laser printers can affect air quality, researchers say

Lead cases expected to quadruple

Legal Toxins In Air

Liberty fires middle school librarian

Living with toxic poisoning.

Lyme Disease - US 2003-3005

Management of patients diagnosed with MCS / health care utilization costs

MCS Disorder and Environmental Illness as Handicaps

MCS - oversensitivity or overexposure

MCS Interview with Dr. Claudia Miller  RADIO

Medical Director of Switzerland’s Paracelsus Clinic Takes Stand on Hazards of Electromagnetic Pollution - ‘Electromagnetic Load’ a Hidden Factor in Many Illnesses

Mouse Genome Will Help Identify Causes Of Environmental Disease

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Multiple chemical sensitivity in male painters; a controlled provocation study.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity in the Clinical Setting:

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: It can interfere with the transaction if not disclosed

Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures

Natural Health Expert Joins The Environmental Illness Resource Web Site

Negative Affect and Chemical Intolerance as Risk Factors for Building-Related Symptoms: A Controlled Exposure Study

Neurasthenic fatigue, chemical sensitivity and GABAa receptor toxins.

Neurogenic Inflammation and Sensitivity to Environmental Chemicals

New Athletic Turf Raises Questions Preliminary tests show artificial surface could pose some  health risks

New Car Smell

New class of chemicals accumulating in people, land animals

New Innovest Report Reveals Value at Risk from Toxic Chemicals in Company Products

New therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome to be tested at Stanford

Novel Disease Paradigm Produces Explanations for a Whole Group of Illnesses

Nurses and Teachers:  Worker Health and Worker Concerns

Nurses Exposed to Toxic Cleaning Chemicals in Hospitals; Cancer Risk Elevated

Odor Processing in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Olfactory sensitivity in medical laboratory workers occupationally exposed to organic solvent mixtures

Overlapping Disorders: The Unifying Concept of Central Sensitivity Syndromes

Oxidative stress associated with indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome-related symptoms among office workers in Taiwan.

Potential Health Effects Associated with Hydrazine and Satellite Reentry

Poison found in kids' clothes from China

Pollution upsets homeowners Fort Edward residents say General Electric is moving too slowly to remove TCE, an industrial solvent

Power sparks allergy:  Issues with electricity drive Alberta man to the wilderness

Prevalence of people reporting sensitivities to chemicals in a population-based survey

Program online on the pathology and politics of  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)hosted by Jackie Barshak

Prospective study of clinical symptoms and skin test reactions in medical students exposed to formaldehyde gas.

QUALITY OF LIFE AND CAPSAICAN SENSITIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH AIRWAY SYMPTOMS INDUCED BY CHEMICALS AND SCENTS-A LONGITUDINAL STUDY 

Remembering Rachel Carson

Research House for the Environmentally Hypersensitive

Role of free radicals and antioxidants in health and disease.

Schoolgirl, 8, told to sit outside class by teacher 'allergic to her fabric conditioner'

Short-term exposure to gasoline vapor increases metallothionein expression

Sickness-related dysfunction in persons with self-reported multiple chemical sensitivity at four levels of severity.

SILENCED PROTEST

Skin and respiratory allergic disease caused by polyfunctional aziridine

Skin Exposure to Isocyanates: Reasons for Concern

Sniffing out fragrance and chemical-free housing.

Students accused of poisoning Bainbridge Island teacher

Studies Show Genetic Variance in MCS

Study finds Agent Orange put some people at risk at CFB Gagetown

Study Shows PCS And Sofas Are Poisoning Us: We Need To Find Alternative

Study:  Women living in mercury's shadow

Suppliers start testing for poisons in clothing

Tent man fears he won't survive

Tetrachloroethylene exposure and risk of schizophrenia: offspring of dry cleaners in a population birth cohort, preliminary finding

The 13-year-old girl who is allergic to almost everything

The Quick Environmental Exposure and Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI)

That Sounds Perhaps Not So Clean

The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHCR) has released its policy on Environmental Sensitivities

The hit TV show 24 is fiction, but the threat of chemical nerve agents is real

The impact of a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to management of patients diagnosed with MCS

The impact of a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to management of patients diagnosed with multiple chemical sensitivity on health care utilization costs: an observational study.

The Mastocytosis Society

The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities

The threat of chemical nerve agents is real

Those "crazy" environmentalists

Toddler Toys, Toxic Homes and is it Going to Goodwill?

Toxic America, Do You Even Care?

Toxic Chemical Ingredients Directory

Toxic Chemicals Inside Us Are a Nightmare We Can End

Toxic Trains and the Terrorist Threat

Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance-An Emerging Theory of Disease?

Toxins in humans go unrecorded

Trial of isolation of sick house syndrome and unclassified multiple chemical sensitivities--Definition of sick house syndrome, and symptoms

Uof L will use grant to improve health in state:  New center to study

UNDIAGNOSED NEUROLOGIC SYNDROME, PORCINE PLANT WORKERS environment, disease

Volatile Organic Compounds

Water, Air And Soil Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide

When parents ask about diet therapy for ADHD

WHO relaunches controversy over children's exposure to chemicals

Woman Sick After Arsenic, Toxins Invade Home

Work: An ecological approach to facilitate employment with MCS

World facing 'arsenic timebomb'

Your chemical life, your health care crisis