MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY RESEARCH AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY MORE RESOURCES AND LINKS |
Here are some important links and resources. No all relate directly to MCS, but all deal with environmental quality and health.
| State of the Evidence. 2006 report from Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action | |
| The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities By: Margaret E. Sears (M.Eng., Ph.D.) written for the Canadian Human Rights Commission | |
| The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities By: Margaret E. Sears (M.Eng., Ph.D.) written for the Canadian Human Rights Commission appendix with annotated bibliography | |
| The Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Cars MODEL YEAR 2006/2007 GUIDE TO NEW VEHICLES from The Ecology Center http://www.healthycar.org | |
| Exposure (To Stressors) Autism Spectrum Disorders by Larry L. Needham, Ph.D. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (28 pages) | |
Out of Control on Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products Nuclear Information and Resource Service http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/outofcontrol/outofcontrol.htm |
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| Exposed. 39 minute video about katherine Devoir who has MCS. Featured video on Free Speech website. (Note that Free Speech has 1500 videos on line. Go to the site and click on "search videos.") | |
| Kiva. Help indigenous people do small business with a small $25 loan. (Be sure to look in detail at what each person will do with her/his loan. Some are actually buying pesticides. But many are starting responsible small businesses.) | |
| Syllabus for Environment, Health, & Behavior - Gibson at James Madison University Department of Psychology | |
Our Stolen Future website: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org (The site for the book Our Stolen Future by Colborn, Dumanoski, Myers; has new toxicological research and discussion of its meaning.) |
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| Engaging with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)- London 2003 Malcolm Hooper PhD, B Pharm, C Chem, MRIC, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Gulf War Veterans |
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| Dust Report from the Safer Products Project "The first U.S. study to test household dust for a new and wide variety of chemicals found that we are exposed to a “toxic cocktail” every day in our homes, breathing dust emitted from commonly used products" http://www.@safer-products.org | |
Examples of political interference in science - Union of Concerened Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/interference/a-to-z-alphabetical.html#BY_AGENCY |
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| Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). A premier, open-access journal on health and environment published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS). http://www.ehponline.org | |
| Father's Day Report: Men, Boys, and Environmental Health Threats from the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment | |
| Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty 1987—2007 A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries | |
| The Falling Age of Puberty by Sandra Steingraber - Report on girls' early puberty from the Breast Cancer Fund | |
| Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: New Evidence, 2005-2007. Prepared for Cancer Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) by Richard W. Clapp, Molly M. Jacobs, and Edward L. Loechler. | |
| BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) August 31, 2007 (610 pages) | |
| BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) August 31, 2007 - SUMMARY ONLY | |
| BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) August 31, 2007 - TABLE OF CONCLUSIONS TO GO WITH SUMMARY | |
| Toxic Chemicals in Products: Financial Risks and Opportunities - VIDEO produced by Strategic Video (http://www.strategicvideo.net) for the Investor Environmental Health Network. 20 minutes. | |
| A Decade of Children’s Environmental Health Research: Highlights from EPA’s Science to Achieve Results Program. December 2007 | |
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Questionnaire and answers from: ALLERGY, SENSITIVITY & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION Qld Inc ASEHA. See p.26 for 16 recommendations that we feel would progress the issues raised in answering these questions. |