Childhood Cancer & the Environment Goals
The PEHSUs are a national network of experts in health issues that arise from environmental exposures from preconception through adolescence. This new project will develop “PEHSU champions” on [...]
Environmental hazards and childhood cancers
Research shows that exposure to environmental hazards such as, pesticides, traffic air pollution, solvents in paints and gasoline, and tobacco smoke can increase the risk of getting childhood [...]
WSPEHSU’s Dr. Stephanie Holm is interviewed by NIEHS
Dr. Stephanie Holm is interviewed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in a podcast where she discusses children’s health risks from wildfire smoke exposure and [...]
FDA Statement Release on Mercury Amalgams
Studies show amalgam is absorbed into the body and biotransformed into other forms of mercury, including methylmercury as well as the neurotoxicity of low levels of mercury. The U.S Food and Drug [...]
The International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment Commits to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint to Safeguard Children’s Health
WSPEHSU’s ObGyn core consultant, Marya Zlatnik, was an author of this statement from the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment that appeared in Environmental Health [...]
New book: Environmental Health Literacy
Mark Miller, WSPEHSU co-director, co-authored with Phil Brown, Stephanie Clark, Emily Zimmerman, and Maria Valenti, a chapter in the new text Environmental Health Literacy, edited by Symma Finn [...]
New Video: Cause or Cure?
WSPEHSU Co-director, Mark Miller, consulted, along with colleagues Catherine Metayer and Todd Whitehead at the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), [...]
Medscape Commentary on PEHSU
In this video, Dr. Jessica Weiland, a toxicology fellow at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and practicing physician, explains the growing need for including an environmental [...]
WSPEHSU Physician Voices Opinion on Valeant lead chelation drug price hike
Dr. Timur Durrani, recently wrote to Congress to oppose the recent increase in the price of the drug, CaEDTA, used to treat lead poisoned children. Click "Read More" to read the letter in full.
PEHSU Welcomes Marya Zlatnik to our team
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Marya Zlatnik, MD, MMS to the UCSF PEHSU team. She will serve as the UCSF PEHSU Associate Director for Maternal Fetal Health and the Environment Program.
