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	<title>Environmental Medicine Matters</title>
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		<title>Pyrethrins and pyrethrosin content in commercial allergen extracts</title>
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Pyrethrins are the insecticidally active components of pyrethrum extract, derived from flowers of Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium and used in commercial and consumer insecticide products. Most dermal testing performed with pyrethrum extracts was done before current refined pyrethrum concentrate became available (before 1967).
A group of  Scientists analyzed presently commercially available pyrethrum allergen extracts to determine the concentration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/pyrethrins-and-pyrethrosin-content-in-commercial-allergen-extracts/</link>
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		<title>Gluten intolerance in Finland has doubled</title>
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The occurrence of gluten intolerance in the Finnish population has doubled in the past twenty years. In the early 1980s, about one per cent of adults in Finland had gluten intolerance, but the figure has since gone up to two per cent by the 2000s.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve already seen a similar trend emerge earlier on where allergies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/gluten-intolerance-in-finland-has-doubled/</link>
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		<title>Export of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): plenty of gold, and toxic chemicals, too</title>
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Study shows need for action to promote ecological recycling
More than 155,000 tonnes of what is sometimes hazardous electronic waste are exported annually from Germany to non-European destinations, a volume which includes some 50,000 tonnes of PC and television monitors alone. The latter often contain metals as well as flame-retardant bromide compounds such as hazardous polybrominated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/export-of-waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee-plenty-of-gold-and-toxic-chemicals-too/</link>
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		<title>Study finds dirty air in California causes millions worth of medical care each year</title>
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California&#8217;s dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia that are triggered by elevated pollution levels, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Researchers estimate that exposure to excessive levels of ozone and particulate pollution caused nearly 30,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-finds-dirty-air-in-california-causes-millions-worth-of-medical-care-each-year/</link>
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		<title>Yale: Why BPA leached from &#8217;safe&#8217; plastics may damage health of female offspring</title>
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Yale scientists show how bisphenol A induces epigenetic changes in pregnant mice that cause hormonal imbalance in the later life of female progeny
Here&#8217;s more evidence that &#8220;safe&#8221; plastics are not as safe as once presumed: New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy leads to epigenetic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/yale-why-bpa-leached-from-safe-plastics-may-damage-health-of-female-offspring/</link>
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		<title>Bitter melon extract attacks breast cancer cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early Saint Louis University research points to promising area of research 
ST. LOUIS &#8212; The extract from a vegetable that is common in India and China shows promise in triggering a chain of events that kills breast cancer cells and prevents them from multiplying, a Saint Louis University researcher has found.
Ratna Ray, Ph.D., professor in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/bitter-melon-extract-attacks-breast-cancer-cells/</link>
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		<title>Diabetes &#8211; Bitter Sweet or Toxic?</title>
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Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution
Diabetes is now widely regarded as the 21st century epidemic. With some 284 million people currently diagnosed with the disease, it&#8217;s certainly no exaggeration-least of all for Indigenous people.
According to the State of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples Report by the United Nations, more than 50 per cent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/diabetes-bitter-sweet-or-toxic/</link>
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		<title>Artificially generated Confusion about the ICD-10 concerning MCS</title>
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In an international newsgroup for activists and scientists which looks into the topic of environmental related diseases, toxic caused illnesses and chemical sensitivity, a posting about the ICD-10 concerning MCS was issued by a German activist (see appendix). She presented a written answer from the DIMDI, which she received in response to a question she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/artificially-generated-confusion-about-the-icd-10-concerning-mcs/</link>
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		<title>METAMORPHOSIS INSIDE MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY</title>
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During our lives we suffer several metamorphoses, some are painful, others are positive, chosen or not. The experience, the life itself, makes us change and evolve.
My story is not different, although my most radical metamorphosis was when I fell ill with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. But although I got sick suddenly, the process itself happened slowly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/metamorphosis-inside-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/</link>
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		<title>Meeting between Ministry of Health and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity associations in Spain</title>
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On February 4th 2010 at 12:00h has been held the meeting with Ministry of Health to state the situation of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sufferers in Spain.
Mr José Martínez Olmos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Mr Alberto Infante Campos, General Director of Professional Planning, Cohesion of SNS and High Inspection and Mr Francisco Valero Bonilla [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/meeting-between-ministry-of-health-and-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-associations-in-spain/</link>
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