Health experts rally for ‘call to arms’ to protect children from toxic chemicals

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Children are suffering and dying from diseases that emerging scientific research has linked to chemical exposures, findings that require urgent revamping of laws around the world, according to a new paper published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of...

Audio: Experts call for stricter regulation of chemicals endangering children’s health

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

The number of children with serious diseases has increased significantly over the past 50 years. An extensive array of research has found one of the primary causes is exposure to synthetic chemicals. Source: WBUR , By Lisa Mullins and Lynn Jolicoeur Now, a consortium...

‘We Give Manufactured Chemicals More Rights Than We Give Criminal Defendants’

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Over the past half-century, childhood cancer in the United States is up 35%. Pediatric asthma has tripled. And pediatric obesity has quadrupled. Source: Public Health Watch, By Jim Morris Why? An article by some of the world’s top health researchers published...

Synthetic chemicals and chemical products require a new regulatory and legal approach to safeguard children’s health

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Few legal or policy constraints apply to the global chemical inventories of an estimated 350,000 products, according to the Consortium for Children’s Environmental Health Peer-Reviewed Publication Boston College Nations must start testing and regulating chemicals and...

‘Grave Concern’: Chronic Diseases Are Killing Kids — and Exposure to Chemicals Is Driving the Epidemic

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

A paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that chronic diseases are the main cause of illness and death for children in the U.S. and Europe. The authors — 25 scientists, economists and legal scholars — called for new laws and...