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From: Wendy Hessler <w.hessler at home.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:21:36 -0500
Subject: AUGUST 2001: EEOH Web Site Update
WHAT¹S NEW ON CBR¹S
ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS AND OTHER HORMONES
WEB SITE
AUGUST 2001
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Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones Web site
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/
Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier
Universities
http://www.cbr.tulane.edu
Environmental Hormone 2001 Conference
October 18-20, New Orleans, LA
http://e.hormone.tulane.edu
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o ED NEWS (Updated 3 September 01)
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/newsviews/whatsnew/
-- News roundup
- Estrogen may be oldest hormone
- Conflicting results over safety of soy formula
-- Government Actions
- Lindane: Revised risk assessment available
- Vinclozolin: Voluntary use cancellation
-- Media review
- Birth defect link to landfill sites, BBC News Online
- Male fish develop eggs in testes, Japanese Times
-- On the Web
- OSF's updated list of endocrine-disrupting chemicals
o MEDIA COVERAGE (Updated 3 September 01)
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/sources/media/
-- 5 new articles listed
o UPCOMING CONFERENCES
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/sources/conference
-- 12 Sept 01: Pest Control Without Pesticides, Berkeley, CA USA
-- 13-16 Sept 01: Eurotox 2001, Istanbul, Turkey
-- 18-19 Sept 01: Effective Risk Management of Endocrine Disrupting
Chemicals, Cincinnati, OH USA
-- 22-25 Sept 01: Breast Cancer and Environmental Mutagens, RTP, NC USA
-- 25-29 Sept 01: Wildlife Toxicology: Contaminant Issues in the Western
United States, Reno, NV USA
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Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones (EEOH), part of the
Environmental Concepts Made Easy (ECME) web site, is an
educational service and an interactive forum where those
interested in environmental estrogens and other environmental
hormones can find accurate, timely information and contribute to
ongoing public debate.
To Drop: To be removed from this list, notify the web site manager at
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The Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier
Universities (CBR) maintains the ECME web site. CBR researchers
collaborate across disciplines, departments, and universities to
study and propose solutions to environmental problems. For
inquiries, visit the CBR web site at
http://www.cbr.tulane.edu, e-mail cbr at tcs.tulane.edu, or
phone (504) 585-6910.
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