Features include:

• Public health risk: leaking underground storage tanks
• Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke
• Eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities
• Incandescent bulbs versus compact fluorescent lamps
• A head's up on lice

Features include:

• Myths vs. Facts about Cancer and Environmental Risks
• "Our Body Burden" of Chemicals: A Call to Action by Teresa Heinz Kerry
• What Green Patriotism Means to Me by David Steinman
• Killing Weeds---Killing Frogs? Herbicides, Toxicity, and Biological Effects
• Herbicide Toxicity
• Sidebars include frequently asked questions about water pollution in southwest PA, suggestions for alternatives to pesticides, and a summary of Davis, Webster, et al's article Declines in Sex Ratio at Birth and Fetal Deaths in US and Japan

Features include:

• An excerpt from Dr Devra Davis's new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer
• UV Exposure, Skin Cancer, and the Case for Banning Tanning Beds
• Environmental Safety of Toys
• Greening Indoor Air
• Sidebars include information on how to reduce your pets' risk from pesticides, which plants will best help improve the quality of the air in your living and working environments, and which food additives it's most important you avoid feeding to your children.

Features include:

• "The Unrecognized Risks of CT Radiation", an excerpt from Dr Devra Davis's new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer
• Pregnancy and Environmental Health
• Pesticides and Breast Cancer
• The Allegheny River Stewardship Project: A Call For Volunteers
• A checklist of how to Create Better Breathing Space for Asthmatics, from Healthy Child, Healthy World
• Sidebars include information on safety of pressure-treated wood, how to protect your children from hidden pesticides in your home, and a list of asthma resources.

Features include:

• "The Global Reach of Water Pollution", by CEO Director Dr Devra L Davis and Donald Burke, MD, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh
• "Safe Drinking Water: The Blue Death", excerpted and adapted from The Blue Death, by Dr Robert Morris
• "What to Do About Bottled Water?", by Jonathan Weinkle, MD
• "Promoting Environmental Health at Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC", by Leslie Davis, President of Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC.
• Environmental health updates, including bisphenol A and flame retardants in consumer products.

Features include:

• "Two Boys From Brooklyn" by Dr. Ronald Herberman, Director, UPCI and UPMC Cancer Centers
• "Racial Disparities and Health" by Lyn Robertson, DrPH, RN, MSN, and Beth Simon, DrPH, RN, MSN
• "Growing Up Green: Off to School" exerpted and adapted from Deirdre Imus's book Growing Up Green
• "Mechanisms Linking Environmental Exposures to Cancer" by Maryann Donovan, PhD, MPH

Pollutants can be tracked into our homes on our shoes and clothing. Invisible residues of pesticides, carcinogens, solvents, paints, mold, bacteria, lead, and other toxins that are brought inside can get on our hands and food and be eaten or inhaled. Over a long period of time, these agents accumulate and can increase the chance that illness will develop.

The most commonly available treatments for lice infestations---medicated shampoos, creams, lotions, and the like---contain pesticides and may be inadvisable for babies, children, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases, and anyone who dislikes the idea of rubbing pesticides into their scalp. Here are a few tips on safe, non-toxic methods for getting rid of lice and making sure they stay gone.

By popular demand, the insert from our Spring 2007 newsletter is now available separately!

Certain foods are thought to help prevent cancer. With this card, you'll find out which ones, and get suggestions on how to increase the depth and variety of your fruit and vegetable intake.

As with lice, the most common treatments for flea infestations contain pesticides and may be carcinogenic or simply unhealthy for you or your pets. Here are some suggestions for ways to get fleas out of your life without doing extra harm to your pets, your children, or yourself.

A fundamental goal of the Center is to develop programs capable of synthesizing the vast amount of scientific data that is available on the causes of cancer and converting this information into effective public policy and education programs.

This brochure provides a short introduction to the Center, its researchers, and their work.

Healthy cooking starts with fresh, non-contaminated foods. What you store and cook your food in and heat your food on also contribute to the safety of your diet. This pamphlet can help you to make better personal choices for a healthy lifestyle.

Research is showing connections between long-term low-level exposures to chemicals and a variety of health risks. Therefore, we can all benefit from using products with less toxic chemicals. Use this brochure to help you become a more informed, healthier consumer.

• Learn what substances or factors in the environment increase the risk of breast cancer.
• Understand the potential health risks of some common products you find in the marketplace.
• Discover what you can do for yourself, your family, and your community.

More African American women die of breast cancer than do white women. We do not yet know why, but scientists, including researchers at the Center for Environmental Oncology of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute are working to find the reasons. This pamphlet introduces you to basic environmental health and breast cancer concepts. There are actions we can take to reduce our risk by learning what environmental exposures are avoidable.

Kids can help improve the environment, too!! This colorful, kid-friendly flyer lists simple things that children can do to help the environment.

Reverse: a short biography about Rachael Carson, a famous scientist, author, and environmental activist from the Pittsburgh area.

Many products in your home can be toxic to your children and pets. These charts list some of the most common household dangers to, and best ways to protect, your children and pets.

Seven tips for how to live healthfully, such as how to "Purchase healthy products", or "Practice healthy living".

On the reverse: "The National Cancer Institute tells us that approximately 2/3 of all cancers are caused by things in the environment…. The good news is there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of developing the disease, and not smoking is one of them!"

• Explore some of the important, and potentially controllable, risks in our environment that have been implicated in the high rate of breast cancer.
• Examine ways that many commonly found chemicals may interact to affect the likelihood that a woman may develop breast cancer.
• Explore the growing scientific evidence that there are critical periods of susceptibility to many of these compounds, and that we need to be particularly concerned about exposures to these chemicals.

The "-cide" in pesticide means "to kill," so it should come as no surprise that pesticides can be harmful to humans and pets if not used properly. This flyer lists alternatives that may be used instead of harmful pesticides.

Science has shown that not all plastics are as safe as the FDA suggests. When heated or refrigerated, certain plastics leach harmful chemicals into the food that we eat. This card gives safer plastics choices as well as a list of plastics you should avoid.

A handy little refrigerator magnet to remind you to check out the Center's new website, which has dozens of informative fact sheets, brochures, and FAQs. We're always adding more, so check back often!

Conventionally-grown fruit and vegetables can carry residues of dozens of different pesticides, but organically-grown produce can have 2/3 less. This handy refrigerator magnet lists the seven fruits and five vegetables which are highest in pesticides and therefore most important to buy organic.