Showing posts with label International Agency for Research on Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International Agency for Research on Cancer. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2015

Exporting Illness Worldwide: Heavy Metal Contamination From a U.S. Owned Smelter in Peru

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English: The La Oroya train station 1921 (Photo credit:  Wikipedia ) Today's post is shared from Occupational Knowledge Internatio...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization , today released t...
Friday, November 29, 2013

US manufactures try to stop carcinogen classification

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Today's post is shared from tuc.org US industry groups are trying to reverse a decision by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to s...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Air pollution a leading cause of cancer - U.N. agency

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Today's post was shared by RWJF PublicHealth and comes from www.reuters.com The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substanc...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Outdoor air pollution: a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths

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The specialized cancer agency of the WHO, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) , announced that it has classified outdoor...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Silica: A Long Overdue Proposal

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The long awaited "Silica standard" for workers has been proposed by OSHA. This post is shared from Dr. David Michaels,  Assistant...
Monday, November 21, 2011

WHO Concludes Occupation Exposure to Bitumens Can Cause Cancer

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The World Health Organization (WHO) /International Agency for Research on Cancer’s Monographs programme re-evaluated various occupations t...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Next Wave of Workers Compensation Claims: WHO Calls Cell Phones a Potential Cancer Risk

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After years of review, the World Health Organization  (WHO) has classified the radio frequencies utilized by cell phones as possibly carcin...