WSPEHSU News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

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.

A Story of Health is the first installment of a new eBook on how to promote health and prevent disease. The book uses a series of case vignettes to highlight how our environments – the natural, [...]

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.

July 2014 Physicians for Social Responsibility’s latest Environmental Health Policy Institute looks at the ways children are exposed to harmful environmental chemicals which may cause cancer and [...]

Coming Soon – A Story of Health e-Book September 2014 The first installment of a new eBook on how to promote health and prevent disease will soon be available. The book uses a series of [...]