Press Room Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) asserts a strong medical voice on the gravest threats to health. PSR mobilizes physicians and health professionals to advocate for climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world. For interviews with PSR’s experts, contact PSR at psrnatl@psr.org or (202) 667-4260.

A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

March 13, 2018 Comments Off on A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

Health professional groups raise alarm that build-out of drilling and fracking operations is creating a public health crisis. Experts available for interviews. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elana Simon, Communications Manager,…

In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

January 31, 2018 Comments Off on In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

Dr. Sidel has inspired so many of us in our work for peace, social justice, and health equity. Click here to read PSR members’ tributes to Dr. Sidel. Victor W.…

American, British, and French Physicians Condemn Their Governments’ Protest of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

December 5, 2017 Comments Off on American, British, and French Physicians Condemn Their Governments’ Protest of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

The American, British, and French embassies in Norway announced they will refuse to send top-level diplomats to the Nobel peace prize ceremony in protest of the awardee, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN received the Nobel peace prize for raising awareness on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and achieving the first-ever U.N. treaty that categorically bans such weapons.

Physicians Warn Scrapping the Clean Power Plan Could Result in 10,000s of Preventable Deaths and Illnesses

October 10, 2017 Comments Off on Physicians Warn Scrapping the Clean Power Plan Could Result in 10,000s of Preventable Deaths and Illnesses

Today, the EPA announced the termination of the Clean Power Plan, the most comprehensive piece of climate change policy on the federal level. The policy created viable pathways for states to slash carbon emissions by almost one-third from electricity sectors, greatly advancing the nation’s ability to slow climate change.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

October 6, 2017 Comments Off on International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Today, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work bringing forward the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)’s international federation, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), founded ICAN in 2007. ICAN mobilized more than 400 NGOs across 100 countries to advocate for an international ban against nuclear weapons. The United Nations adopted the landmark treaty on July 7, 2017.

EPA Drops Illegal Effort to Delay Ozone Protections

August 3, 2017 Comments Off on EPA Drops Illegal Effort to Delay Ozone Protections

In response to legal action by public health, environmental, and community organizations, including PSR, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its proposed delay of the 2015 ozone standards.

Health and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Its Delay of Clean Air Protections for Millions

July 12, 2017 Comments Off on Health and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Its Delay of Clean Air Protections for Millions

Today, health, environmental and community groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop the agency’s delay in implementation of the 2015 smog standard.

UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Could Heal Broken U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Say U.S. Medical Professionals

July 7, 2017 Comments Off on UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Could Heal Broken U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Say U.S. Medical Professionals

Despite a misguided boycott by the U.S. and other nuclear-armed countries, today the UN adopted a treaty banning nuclear weapons worldwide.

Health Advocates Call Court’s Ruling to Regulate Methane a Win for Clean Air and a Healthy Climate

July 5, 2017 Comments Off on Health Advocates Call Court’s Ruling to Regulate Methane a Win for Clean Air and a Healthy Climate

In a win for public health and the climate, the federal appeals court in Washington blocked the Trump administration’s suspension of EPA standards that keep methane and toxic gas pollution from oil and gas wells out of the air we breathe.

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Human Fallibility: A Critical Hole in Global Faith in Nuclear Security

September 8, 2023 Comments Off on Human Fallibility: A Critical Hole in Global Faith in Nuclear Security

Op-ed by Orlando Bell, PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Intern, in Inkstick Media.

‘A galvanizing force’: Vigil held in remembrance of activist Daniel Ellsberg

August 21, 2023 Comments Off on ‘A galvanizing force’: Vigil held in remembrance of activist Daniel Ellsberg

Article in The Daily Californian on the late Daniel Ellsberg, formerly of PSR, and quoting SF Bay PSR’s Dr. Bob Gould.

Join Over 150 Medical Journals Jointly Calling for Nuclear Abolition

August 17, 2023 Comments Off on Join Over 150 Medical Journals Jointly Calling for Nuclear Abolition

This month, over 150 medical journals around the world–including prestigious publications such as The Lancet, British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA–issued a rare joint editorial calling…

The term ‘turf’ is misleading

August 13, 2023 Comments Off on The term ‘turf’ is misleading

Op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine co-authored by Brita Lundberg, MD, Greater Boston PSR Board Chair.

Forget the movies: Nuclear Weapon Development Has Real Victims

August 11, 2023 Comments Off on Forget the movies: Nuclear Weapon Development Has Real Victims

Win Without War interviewed PSR’s Jasmine Owens on intersectionality and the nuclear weapons abolition movement.

Doctors need bias training

August 10, 2023 Comments Off on Doctors need bias training

Letter to the editor by Dr. Jeff Ritterman, San Francisco Bay PSR Board Member, in the San Francisco Chronicle.

78 years after bombing of Nagasaki, health experts raise alarm over risk of nuclear war

August 9, 2023 Comments Off on 78 years after bombing of Nagasaki, health experts raise alarm over risk of nuclear war

Radio interview with PSR Past President Dr. Ira Helfand on the editorial on nuclear war that was published in over 100 medical journals.

Amid ‘Oppenheimer’ craze, Madison marks 78 years since Hiroshima bombing

August 8, 2023 Comments Off on Amid ‘Oppenheimer’ craze, Madison marks 78 years since Hiroshima bombing

Coverage in Wisconsin State Journal of PSR Wisconsin’s Lanterns for Peace event.

California voters could force more sunlight on public records

August 3, 2023 Comments Off on California voters could force more sunlight on public records

Cal Matters article quoting Martha Dina Argüello, PSR-Los Angeles executive director

‘This is acres of plastic’: Environmentalists concerned over artificial turf replacement at Newton high school

August 3, 2023 Comments Off on ‘This is acres of plastic’: Environmentalists concerned over artificial turf replacement at Newton high school

Boston Globe article quoting Greater Boston PSR Board Chair Dr. Brita Lundberg.