Here’s good news about how to help prevent breast cancer with 7 effective strategies. These include managing your weight, avoiding hormone therapy for menopause, avoid hormone-disrupting chemicals in plastic, reducing your stress, a healthy diet, breast feed, avoid smoking and drink less alcohol.
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What are the risks and benefits of cannabis (smoking and non-smoking versions)?
Cannabis use has become more common in the last few years. There are many different reasons people use cannabis, and edible marijuana. Despite being used by many people for medical purposes, only one cannabis product, Epidiolex, is FDA approved. This article explains the risks and benefits of smoking and non-smoking cannabis.
Read More »NCHR’s Public Comment on Early Alzheimer’s Disease: Developing Drugs for Treatment; Draft Guidance for Industry
June 10, 2024: NCHR disagrees with assumptions made in FDA guidance aimed at developing drugs for treatment of early stages of Alzheimer’s dementia.
Read More »Guest Lecture by Diana Zuckerman for Georgetown University Grad Students
April 10, 2024: NCHR president Diana Zuckerman gave a guest lecture to Georgetown University grad students discussing the lead, PFAS, EDCs, and other carcinogens and toxic materials in artificial turf, rubber playground surfaces, and recycled tire tiles & mulch that are used at homes, schools, and daycare centers. This is the text of that lecture, with photos from the PowerPoint slides.
Read More »NCHR Written Testimony in Support of HB457 for the Maryland House of Delegates Environment and Transportation Committee
February 16, 2024: NCHR provides written testimony to the Maryland House of Delegates Environment and Transportation Committee to support HB457, which requires transparency regarding all new artificial turf and infill installation, use, reuse, recycling, and disposal. This information would enable communities to make informed decisions about artificial turf that take into account how long it lasts and its impact on the environment.
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