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This article in Washington State Medical Association Reports on the public health impacts of climate change features quotes by Dr. Annemarie Dooley, Dr. Chris Covert-Bowlds, and Dr. Russell Maier, Washington PSR.
Commentary in the Journal of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society by Robert Gould, MD, San Francisco Bay Area PSR.
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted at its June 2019 meeting a sweeping new policy that pledges the organization to promote education for medical students and physicians on the topic of the health threats from climate change.
Op-ed in OtherWords from PSR Environment & Health Director Barbara Gottlieb on how fracking harms health.
Commentary from Drs. Robert Peter Gale and David G. Nathan in The ASCO Post on the public health threat of nuclear war and the history of PSR and IPPNW’s work.
This past weekend’s heat wave across the country had lethal consequences. According to estimates, six people have died from heat-related illnesses. Millions more endured the heat and may suffer subsequent health repercussions.
Video interview with PSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand on nuclear weapons, from Pressenza.
Climate crisis harms our health, the environment—and must be primary focus of 2020 presidential race
Op-ed in the Sun Sentinel by Ankush K. Bansal, MD, PSR Florida, and Michelle Allen, Food and Water Action.
Coverage in the Thousand Oaks Acorn of a PSR-Los Angeles event calling attention to the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site and demanding a full cleanup.
Seventy-four years ago, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the most horrific acts of warfare in history. This August, we remember the estimated two hundred thousand or more civilian men, women and children who died.