M.Michaels
The “Paris Symposium” on Children’s Health and the Environment”, UNESCO, Paris, 12-13 April 2011, is being organized by ARTAC (Association for Research and Treatments against Cancer – http://www.artac.info) in partnership with the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (www.isde.org) and the Health and Environment Alliance (www.env-health.org). Topics to be discussed include cancer and the environment with moderators Ana Soto and Luc Montagnier, childhood at risk (health risks of electromagnetic fields, chemical exposures, endocrine disruption), the environmental origin of today’s public plague (pesticides, obesity and type 2 diabetes, asthma, allergies, mercury toxicity, GMOs). The symposium will be followed by a 3-day intesive course in environmental medicine which will include investigation, practice and ethics and law. This is a fairly new discipline and there are many medical faculties who have not heard of it. In the forefront of establishing departments and delivering courses in this discipline are Professor Belpomme, President of ARTAC and Dr. Philip Landigran, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. One would hope that such associations and schools would share their research and expertise, but this is not always the case.
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