Health
Also see EHN's section, Bills of Rights
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/b.htm#Bills

and EHN's Take Heart! / Hospitals
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnhompg/takheart.htm#Hospitals

• aHealthyMe
  In the News (health facts)
  http://www.ahealthyme.com/article/bellhowell/101142648
  • Artists Face Unique Health and Safety Risks
    http://www.ahealthyme.com/article/reuters/101214150

• California Citizens for Health
  Frank Cuny
  http://www.citizens.org/
  
  
  • American College of Domiciliary Midwives
    "... I am a Mennonite midwife practicing lawfully under the religious exemptions clause
    but none-the-less was the object of a 5-month MBC covert operation in 1991. ..."
    http://www.goodnewsnet.org/billgage.htm
    
    
  • California SB 2100 Passes Assembly Health Committee
    "July 2000 - California Senate Bill 2100 has passed the California Assembly Health Committee, a
    major step that hopefully will lead to final passage of the bill. Previous medical freedom legislation
    has not passed this stage. ..."
    http://www.citizens.org/AlternativeMedicine/CAsb2100.html
    
    
  • Fluoridation -- Call for national hearings!
    http://www.citizens.org/Food_water_safety/Fluoridation/fluoride.htm
    
    
• Case Management Resource Guide:
  Search for health care services, pharmaceuticals, rehab, long term & elder care ...
  http://www.cmrg.com/cmrg_cfmfiles/sm.cfm
  
  Children's Environmental Health Coalition
  Check out their HealtheHouse and First Steps. Prevention is the name of the game! -- barb
  http://www.checknet.org

• Citizens For Health

  "We expand your health care choices because you have a right to:

  Choose your physicians, including naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors,
  acupuncturists and others providing alternative therapies.

  Choose treatments, including vitamin supplements, herbs, homeopathy and
  other nonconventional modalities.

  Purchase vitamins, herbs and other supplements easily and in the dosages you
  require.

  Obtain water that is free of toxins and harmful chemicals.

  Eat natural foods grown and prepared without pesticides, hormones or antibiotics
  Be fully informed if foods for purchase have been irradiated or genetically
  engineered.

  Be fully informed on issues affecting your freedom of choice."

  http://www.citizens.org/about.htm
  
  
  
• Colorado Health Site aka Colorado HealthNet
  
  HTTP://www.coloradohealthnet.org/
  
  
• Health and Habitat
  "Health & Habitat's purpose is to promote a holistic approach to life, health, and the
  environment, and to help achieve a healthy state of equilibrium through education,
  research, conservation of natural resources, and public charity. Health & Habitat has
  raised and distributed over one million dollars in support of its projects. ..."
  http://www.butterflylodge.org/index.html
  • Rainforest Preservation in Amazonian Ecuador
    http://www.butterflylodge.org/pages/project.html

  • Butterfly Lodge
    http://www.igc.org/healthhab/p07.htm

• Health Care Harm to staff and to patients
  
  All doctor's offices, hospitals and other health care facilities that do not have fragrance-free and
  pesticide-free faciities are practicing health care WITH harm.

  The already chemically injured do not have REAL access to facilities that use standard scented
  and pesticide products, which includes disinfectants. Safer alternatives are available. They should
  be used, as hospitals treat people with with adverse health events which include the upper and
  lower respiratory system, heart and blood pressure problems, neurological problems, digestive
  problems, cancers, and MCS . . . just to name a few diseases adversely affected by perfumes.

  Perhaps we should take a closer look at the rising rates of chronic diseases . . . and also look at rising
  rates of iatrogenesis -- doctor-caused disease and premature death. Isn't it about time that all
  doctor's offices and other healthcare faciliities invoke the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE?

  People, regardless of health issue, have a right to health care that will NOT make them sicker.
  We ALL are stakeholders when it comes to brathing. -- barb

• THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
  "Scent-Sensitive Nurse Sues LDS"
  BY MICHAEL VIGH; Tuesday, October 15, 2002
  "LDS Hospital nurse Susan Bell says she suffered for more than a year from daily
  headaches, eye irritation, swelling of her face and lips and other symptoms because
  her co-workers doused themselves in perfume or cologne.
  
  "Bell, 57, says she became the office laughingstock for supervisors and colleagues,
  some of whom continued to bathe in their perfumes even after she told them it made
  her sick. She worked at the hospital for more than a decade before she took a disability
  leave in March 2001.
  
  "Last week, the Eagle Mountain woman filed a lawsuit against the hospital in U.S. District
  Court, claiming supervisors failed to adequately accommodate her and enforce their
  own policy prohibiting the wearing of heavy perfumes.
  
  "I have allergic and severe reactions to fragrances and paints," Bell said in a statement to
  the Utah Labor Commission's anti-discrimination division. "I complained to my
  supervisors . . . and they promised to fix the problem, yet no action was taken and every
  day I was sick at work.' ...

  " ... Annette Green, [former] executive director of the Fragrance Foundation in New York,
  has said the restrictions are much ado about nothing, arguing perfume does not
  pollute the air and does not contain carcinogens, as cigarettes do."
  [Emphasis added as I wonder, who is kidding whom? Analyses prove Green WRONG! -- barb]
  http://www.sltrib.com/2002/oct/10152002/utah/7273.htm
  
  
  

• Health Care Industry http://uvmce.uvm.edu:443/hlthcare/waste.html
  
  
• Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
  NOTE: Several people had been working together as members of the Health Affected
  Workers (HAW) group. Our energies were directed toward the issues of lessening pesticide
  and fragrance pollution in hospitals and healthcare facilities. To support our efforts, which
  includes conference calls, and plans for report publishing, please donate by sending
  your checks marked, HAW: Pesticides, Fragrances & Cleaners to:
     Health Care Without Harm
     1755 "S" St., NW, Suite 6B
     Washington, DC 20009
  Just remember: Every little bit helps. Thank you! -- barb
  http://www.noharm.org
  
  Now, visit: Pesticides, Fragrances & Cleaners (April 6, 2003)
  Share this work with your healthcare providers. -- barb
  http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/issue

• Healthy Communications - Health, Awareness and Harmony
  Shelley Kramer
  Public Health and Cancer Prevention Educator
  Los Angeles Director of the Cancer Prevention Coalition
  888 377 8877
  310 457 5176
  Fax 310 883 2082
  email: helthcom@aol.com
  http://www.healthy-communications.com/
  • Cancer Treatments, Preventions and Causes
    http://www.healthy-communications.com/pagecancer.html

  • Cancer Shock in Cosmetics -- This News article appeared in the
    UTUSAN - Konsumer - newspaper article, published December 1998
    Healthy Communications.com.
    http://www.healthy-communications.com/konsumer1.html

  • Dr. Epstein's releases and quotes
    http://www.healthy-communications.com/epstein'spage.html

  • THE FACTS... AND WHAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT!
    What's Really In Your Personal Hygiene and Beauty Products?
    http://www.healthy-communications.com/yourrghttoknowtoo.html

• Healthy Hospitals - Controling Pests Without Harmful Pesticides
  Written by Kagan Owens, Beyond Pesticides
  A Report by Beyond Pesticides and Health Care Without Harm
  HTML: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:XyGqMbed3cEJ:www.noharm.org/details.cfm%3FID%3D864%26type%3Ddocument+ATSDR,+Interagency+MCS+Paper&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

  PDF: http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?ID=864&type=document

  • The national office at the Health Care Without Harm
    http://www.noharm.org/

  • Who We Are
    http://www.igc.org/psr/who.htm
    
    
  • Aggregate Exposures to Phthalates in Humans -10-Jul-02
    A 50-someodd page report as a PDF file, which includes reference to perfume, etc.. -- barb
    http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?type=document&id=662

  • CHILDREN, PREGNANT WOMEN NEED IMMEDIATE PROTECTION FROM
    DEHP, SAYS SWEEPING NEW EUROPEAN UNION PROPOSAL
    Industry accuses agency of trying to „destroy market¾ for toxic phthalate that is
    widely used in everyday products
    http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?type=document&id=708

  • An Environmental Rx for the Health Care Industry
    "[A]n international coalition of nurses,physicians, public health experts, environmental
    justice organizations, labor unions, hospitals, universities, breast cancer and
    endometriosis activists, religious leaders and food safety advocates working to
    reform the environmental and public health practices of the health care industry.
    http://www.igc.org/psr/hcrisk.html
    
    
  • Health Care Without Harm, The Campaign For
    Environmentally Responsible Health Care writes about Steven Milloy ...
    "... Milloy is the man who disparaged the memories of Senator John Chaffee and
    Dr. David Rall after their deaths and castigated the European Commission for Health
    and Consumer Protection for its efforts to use precaution and protect children from
    toxic chemicals. Thus, we should not be too surprised that our efforts to protect hospital
    patients should be a subject of Milloy's sneering vitriol. But the issue of PVC medical
    products is not something to be mocked. ..."
    http://www.noharm.org/hcwh/library/admin/uploadedfiles/Chemical_remains_a_threat_to_health.htm
    
    Books --
  • Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
    http://www.igc.org/psr/gar-proj.htm

  • In Harm's Way - Toxic Threats to Child Development
    http://www.igc.org/psr/ihw.htm

  • No room to breathe!
    http://www.igc.org/psr/nrtb.htm

  • Highlights of Recent Projects 2002
    http://psr.igc.org/hcwh-highlights-recent-projs_2002.htm

• Health Canada
  
  • Cosmetics Programs
    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ehp/ehd/psb/cosmetics/kit.htm#policies
    • Food and Drug Act - Cosmetics
      http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/F-27/52692.html#rid-52743

    • General Information on the Sale of Cosmetics in Canada
      http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ehp/ehd/psb/cosmetics/sale.htm

• The Health Connection
  http://www.thehealthconnection.com
  • Multiple Chemical Sensitvities
    The Health Connection; Contributed by Cyndi Norman, M.A.
    http://209.64.11.10/Disease%20Center/diseases/MCS.asp

• Health and Environment Resource Center
  http://www.herc.org/
  
  
  • The Clarion, Edited by Sharon Wachsler
    http://www.herc.org/together/Clarion.htm
    
    
  • MSDS - Make the Connection: Health & Environment
    http://www.herc.org/maketheconnection/
  
  
  
• Health Effects of ISOCYANATES,
  From: Preventing Asthma and Death from Diisocyanate Exposure
  (Irritation, Sensitization and Asthma, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Cancer)
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/asthma.html
  
  
• Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants
  Provides a lengthy list of chemicals and their CAS numbers -- a few are given below. -- barb
  http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hapindex.html
  • BENZENECAS# 71-43-2
    http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/benzene.html

  • PHENOLCAS# 108-95-2
    http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/phenol.html

  • XYLENES(1) CAS# 1330-20-7
    http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/hlthef/xylenes.html
• Health Hazards
  
  • AVOID THESE POTENTIALLY HARMFUL INGREDIENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS!
    http://www.indneways.com/creativenv/avoid.htm
    
    
  • „Where are Environmental Hazards?¾
    by Holly S. Anthony
    http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/7/97.07.01.x.html
    
    
• Health in Hospitals ...
  • Jewish Hospital, Louisville accommodates MCS
    http://unix.adept.net/~mcsinfo/support.htm
    
    
• Health House
  490 Concordia Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55103-2441
  (877) 521-1791, (800) 642-5864 within MN, Fax (651) 281-0242
  info@healthhouse.org
  
  • Mold
    http://www.healthhouse.org/new/mold.htm

• Health Medicine Forum
  Len Saputo, M.D. - Director HMF, 1776 Ygnacio Valley Rd, Suite 105
  Walnut Creek, CA 94598
  Phone (925) 934-7311 - Fax (925) 937-9552
  E-mail -- hmf@healthmedicine.org
  http://www.healthmedicine.org
  
  
  • Attend monthly meetings in Jack London Square!
    http://www.healthmedicine.org/documents/agenda.html
    
    
• Health links through Yahoo
  
  http://www.yahoo.com/Health/
  
  
  
• HEATH Resource Center
  American Council on Education
  One Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC 20036
  phone: (800) 544-3284 (V/TTY) … e-mail: heath@ace.nche.edu
  http://www.acenet.edu/programs/heath/home.cfm
  • Students with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Environmental Illness:
    An Accommodation Challenge
    "... The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) defines a person with a
    disability as anyone with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits
    one or more major life activities. If a student's functional ability is severely limited by
    the symptoms of MCS/EI, he or she would be considered a person with a disability
    under the ADA, and campus support staff must provide reasonable
    accommodations so that there will be access to the program. ..."
    http://www.acenet.edu/programs/heath/MCS.cfm

• Health Track
  Sections for Your Health, Your Community and Your Right To Know -- please take a
  minute to inform Health Track that fragrances do cause and trigger asthma.
  Trust for America's Health
  1707 H Street, NW
  7th Floor
  Washington, DC 20006
  
  p (202) 223-9870
  f (202) 223-9871
  http://healthyamericans.org/
  • Priorities in Prevention - a PDF file Responding to the Asthma Epidemic … September 2000
      Not ONE mention of the words fragrance, perfume, air 'freshener.' They should start looking
    under their noses! At least, they are starting to get it when it comes to pesticides: "... A
    related, but unproven,17 theory is that high household pesticide levels could be partially linked to
    asthma. ..." But that's not the end of my criticism: They use OLD data! They wrote: " ... Overall,
    the disease affects about 14.5 million Americans, including roughly 5% of U.S. adults.4, 5 Inhalant
    Allergens. ..." In the mid 1990s, it was 14.5, now it's more like 17.3 million and soaring. See
    EHN's section on Statistics at http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/s.htm#Statistics -- barb
    http://www.prevent.org/Winword/PinP_0900_Asthma1.pdf

• Health Watch, Immune Support
  
  http://www.immunesupport.com/
  
  
  • Low-Level Chemical Exposures:A Challenge for Science and Policy
    http://www.immunesupport.com/hwnews00059.htm
  
  
  
• Healthier Hospitals Book by Toni Temple, available from EHN
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/books/bookordr.htm
  
  
  • Healthier Hospitals -- Toni Temple's Available through ONFCI and also through EHN
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/books/bookordr.htm
    
    
  • See ONFCI's press release:
    HEALTHIER HOSPITALS" ENABLES HEALTH CARE CENTERS
    TO MEET NEEDS OF THE CHEMICALLY DISABLED
    http://1freespace.com/onfci/re000601.html
    
    
  • Healthier Hospitals manual is credited as a resource in Mercy Hospitals (California) protocol for MCS
    http://www.lassentech.com/eimcspro.html

• HealthSurfing's story on Lynn Lawson
  
  • Aerosol Hazards: Untested chemicals make some sick by NBC5DFW
    A special treat: Lynn Lawson is interviewed. However, NBC5DFW's report is not quite
    accurate. Lynn IS safe in her home, which is not more toxic than outdoors, and she doesn't
    "prefer spending her days outdoors" (winter in Illinois is pretty cold). Lynn tells us: "What
    I am spraying in our kitchen is a bottle filled with vinegar and water, not an aerosol." Also, she
    provided the producer a lot of info on fragrances, which wound up on the cutting room floor because
    the producer needed to stick to her topic: aerosols and air fresheners.-- barb)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20010531173350/nbc5dfw.healthsurfing.com/health/1999/12/06/
  
  
  HealthWorld Online
• 
  http://www.healthy.net/index.asp
  
  
  • Healthy Travel
    http://www.healthytravel.net/
    
    
    • Traveling with the Family- Hints from an Herbalist Mom
      http://www.healthytravel.net/TravelLibrary/HerbalMom.htm
  • Melissa Kaplan's Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
    Surgery, Anesthesia and CFS/FM/MCS
    http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/drugs/anesthesia.html

  • Personal Health Zone
    http://www.personalhealthzone.com/
    • Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs
      Check this out! Talk the herbal info over with your health care practioner. -- barb
      http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbsafety.html
      This is just one link of a long list of links to info about herbs used in treatment. . .
      
      • Lemongrass Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings
        http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbal_medicine/side_effects/lemongrass_side_effects.html

      
      
  • Your Own Health & Fitness
    Layna Berman
    Tapes to order. -- barb
    http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.com/tapes.html

  Healthy
  
  
• "A Healthy Tomorrow Begins Today"
  Nevada State Health Division
  http://www.state.nv.us/health/

• Achieving Healthy Indoor Air
  "In 1988, the American Thoracic Society and the American Lung Association convened
  an interdisciplinary workshop on improving indoor air quality (IAQ) and health. The
  workshop was prompted by the emerging literature on the health effects of air pollution,
  and by the need for a critical review of the evidence on control strategies directed at
  the adverse health consequences of indoor air pollution. The focus of the 1988
  workshop was primarily on specific pollutants; also addressed were source control and
  building-related problems. A workshop report was published in 1990 in the American
  Review of Respiratory Disease (1). The target audience for the workshop included the
  many health professionals providing clinical care to patients with respiratory diseases,
  the American Lung Association and its constituents, and the wide range of other
  professionals concerned with indoor air quality. . . .

  ..."Control of pollution sources is incomplete if the odors from the occupants are not
  minimized. Perfumes are among the most difficult to control since they are perceived by
  their users as pleasurable. Personal rights and preferences for perfumed products
  must be evaluated against the discomfort that scents cause for some people. The
  odoriferous materials are highly volatile synthetic chemicals; in effect, they contribute
  to the total VOCs. Scented personal products are not limited to perfumes; they include
  residual scents on clothing from detergents and fabric softeners, soaps, shampoos,
  deodorants, skin lotions, and cosmetics. The only successful method of control is to
  eliminate these odors, either by avoiding their use, as with perfumes, or by using
  unscented products. ..."

  "...The particular agents to which persons with MCS allege hypersensitivity vary from
  person to person, with the agents to which any patient claims susceptibility frequently
  varying over time, and possibly including substances such as fine fragrances that others
  may find desirable and pleasurable. The natural history of MCS has not been
  described. Anecdotal reports indicate that over long periods of removal from exposure
  to offending chemicals, persons with MCS may gradually return to normal. The role
  of avoidance in the condition has not been well-characterized.

  "The mechanisms leading to MCS remain uncertain, and exposure reduction may be the
  only relief from symptoms for many MCS sufferers. Control measures to improve
  indoor air quality for the population generally would also apply to this group of people.
  Specific approaches for home environments of persons with MCS would be person-
  specific and require individual guidance. Persons with MCS have formed their own
  support networks for exchange of information on managing symptoms by physical
  control of the environment. Typically, the home environments of many patients with
  MCS are sparsely furnished, and rigid dust control is maintained; as well, there is an
  absence of chemical products and of fleecy materials. Because of the ambiguous nature
  of MCS and the changing spectrum of substances to which the patient with MCS
  exhibits symptoms, there is little to make in the way of specific recommendations for
  exposures to particular agents. Systematic research using sound methods has been
  recommended to define and manage this poorly understood condition. "
  http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/full/156/3/S33

• Establishing a Healthy Home
  by Bruce M. Small, P.Eng.
  http://www.lovepsychics.com/Global_Life_Symposium/bruce_small.htm#healthy

• Healthy Building Network
  http://www.healthybuilding.net/
  • Healthy Building Network
    CCA (Info Page of Links)
    http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic_wood.html

• Healthy Buildings 2000
  Aug 6 -10, 2000; Finland
  http://www.hb2000.org/

• Healthy Cabinets
  CKD Pioneers Hypoallergenic Kitchen Design
  http://www.healthycabinets.com
  
  
• Healthy Child OnLine
  (This site has an extensive search feature ... you'll enjoy using it. -- barb)
  http://www.healthychild.com/default.htm
  
  
  • Do Vaccines Disable The Immune System?
    by Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D., L.Ac.
    http://www.healthychild.com/database/do_vaccines_disable_the_immune_system_.htm
    
    
  • Vaccinations - What You Don't Know Could Hurt Your Children
    http://www.healthychild.com/database/vaccinations_what_you_don_t_know_could_hurt_your_children.htm
    
    
• Healthy Communications
  Shelley Kramer
  http://www.healthy-communications.com
  Your Right To Know
  http://www.healthy-communications.com/rightoknowsidebar.html

• Healthy Days Online
  "Your source for quality vitamins, minerals,nutitional supplements at discount prices. "
  http://healthydaysonline.com/

• Healthy Flying With Diana Fairechild
  http://www.flyana.com/
  
  

• Healthy Home
  Also see EHN's "Building"
  http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/b.htm#Building
  • Healthy home brochure by Environmental Health Coalition of Western Mass.
    Creating a Healthy Home
    10 = $2.25
    25 = $5.50
    50 = $8.50
    100 = 13.50
    
    Checks payable to EHCWM/ISIS
    Mail to:
    Environmental Health Coalition of Western Massachusetts
    P.O. Box 614
    Leverett, MA 01054
    

  • Healthy Home Services - Canada
    Safer products for every room in the house and your garden too. -- barb
    http://www.healthyhomeservices.ca/default.cfm

  • Healthy Homes - Vermont and Hawaii
    http://www.healthy-homes.com/index.html
    • Healing MCS
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/healing.htm

    • The Most Dangerous Home Toxics
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/mostdang.htm

• "Healthy Hotels"
  SF Bay Guardian:
  
  On The Road Healthy Hotels
  http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/31/healthyhotels.html
  
  
  
• Healthy House Institute
  http://www.hhinst.com/
  A few of their many, valuable links . . .
  
  • Healthy House Institute Archives
    http://www.hhinst.com/archives.html

  • Indoor Air Pollution: It's Time to Clean Up Our Act
    Published in Greenkeeping, May/June 1992, p.12.
    by John Bower (copyright 1992)
    http://www.hhinst.com/Artindoor.html
    
    
  • Selling Homes to Allergic and Chemically Sensitive Clients
    Published in Rockwell Report, January 1998, p. 12.
    by Lynn Bower (Copyright 1997)
    http://www.hhinst.com/ArtRockwell.html

    The Healthy House Institute ORDER FORM
    http://www.hhinst.com/orders.html

  • The Healthy House Quiz
    http://www.hhinst.com/quiz.html

  
  
  
• Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
  http://www.montana.edu/wwwcxair/
  
  
• Healthy Kids
  Suggestions for Accommodation at School
  By Ellie Goldberg, MEd
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnhompg/mcsschac.htm

  
  

  • Icons/Logos you can use
    http://www.montana.edu:80/wwwcxair/icons.html
  
  
  
• HealthyLivingIntl
  http://www.healthylivingintl.com/index.htm
  • if Looks Could Kill
    From The Cosmetic Health Report Newsletter
    by Judi Vance
    "...The deodorant soap has a pH of 9, which removes the protective acid mantle of the
    skin making it more alkaline and therefore, more vulnerable to penetration. It also
    contains ammonia, formaldehyde and phenol, which are known carcinogens and
    triclocarban, which is under suspicion of being a cancer causing agent with daily use...."
    http://www.healthylivingintl.com/bath/newsletter.htm

    Would You... Wash their hair and brush their teeth with brake fluid,
    engine degreaser or antifreeze? [picture of two young boys]
    You probably are and don't know it!
    http://www.healthylivingintl.com/bath/index.htm

• Healthy People, Healthy Places
  New website of Peggy Wolff (3/03)
  Do explore! -- barb
  http://www.healthypeoplehealthyplaces.com

• Your Own Health & Fitness
  Tapes to order. -- barb
  http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.com/tapes.html

  Hippocrates

  • Hippocrates - Magazine
    "Hippocrates Magazine ceased publication in March 2001." The following links still work 01/03, including the 02/02 announcement of its "relaunch."-- barb
    http://www.hippocrates.com/
    • Healing the Heart A Columbia cardiac surgeon advocates age-old remedies. By Nancy Waring http://www.hippocrates.com/archive/December2000/12departments/12integrative.html

    • Massachusetts Medical Society Announces Re-launch of Hippocrates
      "Waltham, MA ã February 7, 2000 ã The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS),
      publisher of The New England Journal of Medicine, announces the re-launch of
      Hippocrates, the Society's primary care journal. The MMS acquired Hippocrates
      last year to further serve the information needs of primary care physicians.
      
      " ' In the year since we acquired Hippocrates, our goal has been to create a forum for
      ideas and issues relevant to the practice of primary care,' said Harry Greene II, MD,
      Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 'The March issue reflects
      a year of hard work and thought on how we can contribute to the patient/physician
      experience.' ..."
      http://www.hippocrates.com/running/pressreleases/relaunch.html

    • Site Map
      http://www.hippocrates.com/running/sitemap.html

  • The Modern Oath of Hippocrates
    The Gersten Institute
    "... [O]ath did not originate from the AMA. ..."
    http://www.imagerynet.com/hippo.ama.html

  • The Oath of Hippocrates
    The Gersten Institute
    http://www.imagerynet.com/hippo.orig.html

• Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
  Prepared by: Kathleen Parrott, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Housing Extension Specialist
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Quoting Script for transparency #3
  Indoor air quality can be impacted by some chemicals used to clean, protect, maintain, and
  decorate the home and its furnishings, for personal care and grooming, and for hobbies.
  
  Products can release chemicals into the air during use, as the product dries or cures, or off
  gas as the products age.
  
  Examples of household products that could be an indoor air quality problem:

  paints	cleaning products	hobby products
  varnishes	disinfectants	cosmetics and personal care products
  waxes	degreasers
  strippers	pesticides
  caulking adhesives	air fresheners

  http://www.montana.edu:80/wwwcxair/housprod.html

• Write to Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/SGScripts/writetome.cfm

• Press Releases
  http://www.healthyschools.org/news.html

• Guides and Materials you can order from us
  http://www.healthyschools.org/guides_materials.html

• What you can do - WHAT PARENTS AND OTHERS
  http://www.healthyschools.org/what_you_can.html

• Traveling with the Family- Hints from an Herbalist Mom
  http://www.healthytravel.net/TravelLibrary/HerbalMom.htm

• Air pollution 'can thicken blood'
  "Air pollution thickens the blood and increases the likelihood of inflammation, according
  to research.

  "The study may help explain why poor air is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks
  and stroke, as well as worsening respiratory problems.
  So, why pollute your air and your body with petrochemically derived fragrances? -- barb
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4277113.stm

• Altered Oils & Heart Attacks
  By Bill Patterson
  Dr. Donsbach's Newsletters
  http://www.donsbach.com/cgi-bin/virtual/webc.cgi/~donsbach/newsletters/id147.htm

• BIOMARKERS of MCS
  Abnormal Medical Tests and Physical Signs Associated with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  Compiled by Albert Donnay, MCS Referral & Resources, adonnay@mcsrr.org,
  410-362-6400, 2/1999, rev'd 8/2000
  "Cardiac: tachycardia, other arrhythmia, mitral valve prolapse (Ziem 1997), abnormal
  echocardiogram (Bell 1998a, Baldwin 1998a)"
  http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/biomarkers.html

• Cardiovascular Toxicants
  environmental defense
  http://www.scorecard.org/health-effects/explanation.tcl?short_hazard_name=cardio

• The Environmental Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease
  By William J. Rea, MD, FACS,
  Environmental Control Unit, Brookhaven Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
  http://www.aehf.com/articles/A15.htm

• Environmentally Triggered Cardiac Disease
  http://www.aehf.com/articles/A18.htm

• First aid for a Heart Attack
  Makes rounds via email . . . see Urban Legends. -- barb
  http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcpr.htm

• Heart attacks 'triggered by air pollution'
  By Roger Dobson and Severin Carrell; 27 April 2003
  "Small rises in urban air pollution can trigger an increased number of potentially
  fatal heart attacks, an international study has discovered. "
  Folks, petrochemically derived fragrances and pesticides are known air pollutants! -- barb
  http://millennium-debate.org/suntel27ap033.htm

• Profile of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity
  By Grace Ziem1 and James McTamney2
  Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 105; supplement 2, March 1997
  http://www.herc.org/news/ehp/ziem.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/


• Neat Stuff
  http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/neat-stuff/neatstuf.html
  
  
• Specific Medication and Specific Medicines
  by John M. Scudder, M.D
  http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/eclectic/spec-med/main.html

• Eliminating High Blood Pressure: Just Add Water
  http://www.chiroweb.com/find/archives/nutrition/other/pour.html
  Tell me about... Coenzyme Q10
  http://www.chiroweb.com/find/tellmeabout/coenzyme_q10.html
  • Tell me about... The importance of vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements...
    http://www.chiroweb.com/tyh/nutrients.html

• High Blood Pressure - March 2002
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/index.htm#hbp

http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/support.htm

• Fragrance-Free at Allergy/Dermatology in Oakland, California
  Sign on door --
  
  "Please use discretion and avoid wearing scented products,
  perfume or smoking right before coming to the Allergy Department.
  Many of our patients are very sensitive to scented products,
  perfumes and smoke. Thank you for your cooperation."
  [Fall 1998, barb]
  
  
  
• Partners in Health
  http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/partnersinhealth/

• Kaiser settles lawsuit over disabled access
  April 13, 200; By Josh Richman; Oakland Tribune STAFF WRITER
  http://www.oaklandtribune-ang.com/s-asp-bin/link/ShowArchiveStory.asp?URL=search.newschoice.com/Display.asp&story=d:\index\newsarchives\angtr\loc\20010413\793718_s2bs213.txt&searchtext=Kaiseranddisabled&puid=557

• Kaiser Watch News Archive
  http://www.calnurse.org/cna/kaiser/newsarch.html

http://scipich.health.org/

http://critpath.org/~tracy/spot.html

• Migraines
  http://www.betterhealth.com/conditions/neuro/0,4264,392,00.html

• Wake Up and Smell the Chemicals
  By Merla Zellerbach
  Merla Zellerbach didn't know then, what we now know about fragrances since the
  FDA Petition 99P-1340 and its analyses. Also, she mentions "permanent-press fabrics"
  but there's not a hint about the harmful effects of fabric softeener -- barb
  Via The Wayback Machine
  http://web.archive.org/web/20000902230848/http://my.webmd.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_5462492

  
  

Herbs

• 1001 Herbs
  http://www.1001herbs.com/peppermint-oil/
  
  
• All Natural Herbs:Information For Your Health
  http://www.allnaturalherbs.com/onlineinfo/

• The Ancient Herb Garden
  http://www.healthfree.com/herbgarden/ampleherb.htm

  Aubrey Organics
  http://www.organicanews.com/news/aubrey.html

  • More than Skin Deep
    (From Winter/Spring 1998)
    by Aubrey Hampton & Susan Hussey; Aubrey Organics News
    http://www.organicanews.com/news/article.cfm?story_id=15

• Celestial Seasonings
  
  http://www.celestialseasonings.com/
  
  
  
• Connie's Vitamin and Herbal Store
  
  http://www.mindspring.com/~healthy/index.html
  
  
  
• Elysian Gardents, Inc.
  Chemical free Perennials and Herbs
  
  http://www.howdyneighbor.com/JusticeDenied/page19.html
  
  
  
• Enhanced Aesthetics
  Skincare & Nutrition & Collectibles
  http://www.california.com/~hawk/
  
  
• Frontier! Natural Products
  
  http://www.frontierherb.com/
  
  
  
• Healthy Living at HerbsNow
  
  http://www.herbsnow.com/index.html

• Henriette's Herbal Homepage
  
  http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/
  
  
  • Neat Stuff
    http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/neat-stuff/neatstuf.html

  • Bodycare ingredient myths By Jerry Hight
    http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/neat-stuff/ingrmyth.html

  
  
• Herbal Medicine
  
  http://www.moreinfo.net/getwell/herbal.html
  
  
  
• Herbal remedies associated with three areas of special concern to surgeons
  and anesthesiologists: coagulation abnormalities, cardiovascular complications,
  and sedative effects.
  MedCom Resource
  "Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) . . . Depletes potassium stores and may
  potentiate cardiac glycoside effects"
  http://medcomres.com/articles/tables_herbs_surgery.htm

• Herbs-N-More
  http://user.icx.net/~drherb/index.html

• HIMALAYA HERBAL HEALTHCARE
  About licorice . . .
  
  Toxicology
  Excessive amounts of the root, herbal teas or candy derived from G. glabra may be
  harmful. Licorice increases salt retention and depletes the potassium in the body, causing
  lack of energy, weakness and even death. People with hypertension or heart
  problems should avoid licorice.
  
  Indications
  
  Licorice is used for the treatment of asthma, acute and chronic bronchitis and chronic
  cough. It is a mild anti-inflammatory for arthritis and rheumatism and is used to treat
  gastric, duodenal and oesophageal ulceration or inflammation, heartburn and mouth
  ulcers.
  
  http://www.himalayadirect.com/h_glycyr.php?osCsid=73274d68645e335a2032977fbea7579b

• NEW WORLD BOTANICALS ^TM
  http://www.newworldbotanicals.com/
  
  
• Personal Health Zone - Includes Herbal info
  http://www.personalhealthzone.com/
  • Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs
    Check this out! Talk the herbal info over with your health care practioner. -- barb
    http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbsafety.html
    This is just one link of a long list of links to info about herbs used in treatment. . .
    
    • Lemongrass Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings
      http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbal_medicine/side_effects/lemongrass_side_effects.html

    
    
• The Physiomedical Dispensatory
  by William Cook, MD, 1869
  Scanned and Proofread by Charlie Taylor
  Indexed and prepared for publication by Paul Bergner and Christine Schubert
  Presented by Medical Herbalism and medherb.com
  http://medherb.com/cook/home.htm
  • Table of Contents
    http://medherb.com/cook/html/cook_VpToc.htm

• Raintree Nutrition
  http://www.rain-tree.com/comerce.htm
  • Bulk Rainforest Botanicals By the Ounce & By the Pound
    http://www.rain-tree.com/bulkprod.htm

• Reference Guide for HERBS
  
  http://www.realtime.net/anr/herbs.html
• Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
  http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/HOMEPAGE/
  
  

Hesperia Museum and Nature Center
"[T]he first of it's kind in the world, legally permitted to be built totally of earthen construction,
as part of the Desert Village, Rodeo/Arena and other futuristic programs in Hesperia. "
http://www.calearth.org/museum.htm

Hesperian Beliefs
http://www.hesperian.org/#beliefs

Dr. Gunnar Heuser, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P.
28240 West Agura Rd, Suite 203
Agura Hills, CA 91 301
Phone: ++1-818 -865- 1858
Fax: ++1- 818 -856- 8814
e-mail: gheuser@ucla.edu

Dr. Alan R. Hirsch
The Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation
http://www.smellandtaste.org/

Hoaxes: Check them here first!

Viruses? Also see EHN's http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/v.htm#Viruses

• Aunt Edna Virus
  If in your email you receive a message with this subject line: You received a postcard!, and you
  have opened it and then see something like "35-dodge-treads-aunt," DELETE IMMEDIATELY. -- barb
  
  1001 Postcards Home ª
  Aunt Edna Virus
  This Is Not A Real Postcard, And No, It Didn't Come From Our Site
  If you got here with a pickup code (something like "35-dodge-treads-aunt"), then you
  should know that the message you received was not a real postcard from our site.
  On December 10th, 2004, some jerk released onto the internet what has come to be known
  as the "Aunt Edna Virus." Basically, that person faked one of our notification emails by
  switching out the links for links to an infected website. (No, our site is not infected.)
  You should delete the email immediately, and, if you clicked on any of the links with
  Internet Explorer, use a virus scanner to check your computer for viruses.
  
  Never open up any postcard sent from "Aunt Edna" -- period. (If you actually have an
  Aunt Edna, just get her to call you. It's nice to hear her voice.) Postcards sent from anyone
  other than Aunt Edna are safe.
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  The Short Definition Of What Is Safe And What Isn't Safe
  Postcards from Aunt Edna: Not Safe!
  Postcards from anyone else: Safe!
  snip
  http://www.postcards.org/postcards/special/aunt_edna_virus.html/

  Also visit
  Warning: "Aunt Edna" email from postcards.org 13th January 2005
  "Note: these email messages are not being sent out by postcards.org."
  http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/postcards-org.htm

• Beta Test Payment Hoax
  http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBGiveAways.shtml#betapayment

• Cola hoaxes
  
  • Pepsi: Click on "FALSE RUMOR ALERT: PATRIOTIC CANS"
    http://www.pepsi.com/

    Dr. Pepper: Statue of Liberty along with the words "One Nation ä Indivisible."
    "The special packaging was designed to reflect our pride in this country's determination
    to stand together as one. ... We at Dr Pepper/Seven Up strongly believe that the
    message on these cans is a resoundingly patriotic message that we are a united nation. ...
    The limited edition patriotic was retired in February and will not be used again."
    http://www.dpsu.com/drpepper_can.html

• Computer Virus Myths
  by Rob Rosenberger
  http://www.kumite.com/myths/
  
  
• HoaxBusters
  http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
  • Beta Test Payment Hoax
    http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBGiveAways.shtml#betapayment

  • CIAC Hoax Categories
    http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxCategories.html

  • Family Pictures . . . and many, many more hoaxes on this page
    http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#pictures

  • Full Hoax Index
    http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxIndex.html

• HoaxKill, The
  [See their list of known hoaxes.]
  http://www.hoaxkill.com/
  
  
• How to Spot a Virus Hoax
  by Joe Wells, Senior Editor, antivirus online
  http://www.av.ibm.com/InsideTheLab/Bookshelf/WhitePapers/Wells/HOWTOSPOT/howtospot.html
  
  
• Internet ScamBusters
  http://www.scambusters.org/
  • Real Viruses and Worms (and what to do if you've been infected)
    http://www.scambusters.org/viruses.html

  E-mail hoax stinks up internet
  WebPosted Sep 5 2001 08:33 AM EDT
  "Halifax, N.S. ã Halifax Regional Police are asking people to ignore an
  e-mail hoax warning about fake perfume salemen.
  
  "The message says women should be on the look-out for muggers pretending to sell
  bargain perfume. It says sniffing the scents makes you pass out. ..."
  I check out messages with a look to info in this section and then inform sender of hoax URL. -- barb
  http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns_perfumehoax050901

• Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
  http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html
  
  
• 'Tis the season for urban legends
  
  Net4TV Voice Includes perfume vendor giving out perfumes to knock you out . . . the problem is, for the
  already fragrance-sensitized individual, that's a reality! -- barb
  http://net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=1738
  • W95.Babylonia
    http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.babylonia.html
    
    
  • WOBBLER Virus Hoax
    http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wobbler-hoax.html
  
  
• Urban Legends
  http://snopes.simplenet.com/ulindex.htm
  
  
• U.S. Postal Service and e-mail
  "The U.S. Postal Service has no authority to surcharge e-mail messages sent over the
  Internet, nor would it support such legislation."
  http://www.usps.gov/news/press/99/99045new.htm
  
  
• Viruses
  
  • "Bubbleboy" "A new e-mail virus named after a "Seinfeld" television episode can
    wreak havoc on University of Arizona computers systems - even when
    the messages aren't fully opened. ..."
    http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/991117/tech-269
    
    
  • New Fast-Spreading Virus Takes Internet by Storm
    By MATT RICHTEL; March 28, 1999
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/28virus.html
    
    

Holistic Sites

• 1Healthy Universe
  http://www.1healthyuniverse.com/
  
  
• ALAMEDA HOLISTIC INSTITUTE
  http://www.dr.richman.org
  
  
• The Holistic Healing Web Page
  http://www.holisticmed.com/
  
  Home Grown Green
  Rich Kimball
  http://homegrowngreen.homestead.com/
  • ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES DIRECTORY
    http://homegrowngreen.homestead.com/files/HGSW.htm

• Soil And Health Library
  Health begins in the soil; Healing begins with hygiene; Liberty begins with freedom.
  "This is a free public library offering full-text books about holistic agriculture, holistic
  health, self-sufficient homestead living, and personal development. Most of the titles in
  this library are out of print. Some of these books can be quite hard to find; many of
  them are old enough to be public domain materials. The library also offers a collection
  about why globalised society is resistant to changing its food and health systems.
  
  The titles in this library, when comprehended as an inter-related whole, constitute a
  self-guided course of study or curriculum that connects agricultural methods to the
  consequent health of animals and humans, shows how to prevent and heal disease and
  increase longevity. "
  http://www.soilandhealth.org/index.html
  • NATURAL LIGHT AND HEALTH - CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
    About our sun and how important it is for health of plants and animals. -- barb
    http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/020121ch18.html

• StopCancer.com
  Advanced Holistic Alternative Cancers Library - Answers, Research & Treatment
  http://stopcancer.com/book.htm

• ThinkTwice
  "We offer many excellent publications on holistic health, AIDS, cancer, parenting, natural
  childcare, immunizations, homeschooling, spiritual growth, and more. "
  
  Also see their vaccine info site: "We offer the world's largest selection of uncensored
  information on childhood shots and other immunizations. Because this is such an
  important topic, we believe that parents are entitled to full disclosure of all pertinent data,
  and the freedom to choose whether or not to vaccinate their children."
  http://thinktwice.com/
  
  
• Jerry Wyker, MD
  Board Certified in Holistic Medicine
  Holistic Healing Center of Carmel
  25530 Rio Vista Drive
  Carmel, CA 93923
     Fax: 831-625-0467
     Phone: 831-625-0911
     email: jerry@wyker-md.com
  http://www.wyker-md.com
  • Advanced Testing and Screening
    " In addition to the conventional lab profiles, there are a number of advanced testing
    procedures now available that can facilitate optimum therapy. ..."
    http://www.wyker-md.com/advanced_testing.htm

• eHealthLand.com
  http://www.ehealthland.com/

• Boiron
  http://www.boiron.com/
  • HOMEOPATHY TODAY - Yes, Homeopathy has changed
    By Christian BOIRON
    http://www.boiron.com/en/htm/01-aujourdhui/conception_moderne.htm

• Boericke and Tafel Inc
  2381 Circadian Way
  Santa Rosa, CA 95407
  tel (707) 571-8202 . . . fax (707) 571-8237
  
  
  Products:
  Arniflora relieves bruises, minor muscle & joint aches, stiffness & swelling ...
  Califlora Calendula Cream - for minor burns, sunburn, wind, burn, scrapes,
  abrasions or cracked lips.
  Florasone relieves itching and inflammation associated with minor skin irritations and
  rashes due to eczema soaps, detergents, cosmetics and jewelry... natural fragrance.
  Triflora for relief of arthritis pain.

• Homeopathic - Cell Salts
  http://www.healthproducts.cc/homeopathic.htm
  
  
• Homeopathic Medicine - Overview
  By The National Institutes of Health
  http://webmd.lycos.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_58196

• HomeopathyHome.com
  http://www.homeopathyhome.com/index.shtml

• OunceofPrevention.com
  http://www.ounceofprevention.com/index.htm

• The .02 Solution
  While critics call homeopathy 'utter nonsense,' two studies may
  give the alternative medical practice some scientific validity
  by Michael Castleman; Mother Jones; Sept./Oct.1998
  http://truher.mojones.com/mother_jones/SO98/castleman.html

• Executive PayWatch from AFL-CIO
  http://www.aflcio.org/paywatch/index.htm
  
  
• Suzanne's.com
  http://www.suzannes.com/

• VitaminProShop
  http://www.vitaminproshop.com
  • Remedies by Boericke and Tafel Inc
    http://www.vitaminproshop.com/rembyboertaf.html

   Musk
   http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/m.htm#Musk

   Phthalates
   http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/p.htm#Phthalates

AlkalizeForHealth
Problems Associated With Early Puberty, and Other Issues of Interest to Families
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/earlymenarchy.htm

CHEMICAL REACTION CAMPAGIN . . . Reach for a toxics-free future!
http://www.chemicalreaction.org/

• Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones (EEOH)
  http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/
  • Toxic Wastes Found in Fertilizers
    By Cat Lazaroff
    http://www.ens.lycos.com/ens/may2001/2001L-05-07-06.html

• EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
  Also see EHN's Government Links, EPA
  
  "... The hormone disrupters are more evidence that
  chemicals can be dangerous even if they don't cause
  cancer. In humans, as in animals, hormones have many
  communications jobs, affecting mood and memory,
  reproduction and development, virtually any biological
  process you can name. ..."
  http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu:80/045env_hormone/main1.html
  
  
• The European Union's Ban on Hormone-Treated Meat - RS20142:
  By Charles E. Hanrahan, Senior Specialist in Agricultural Policy
  Resources, Science, and Industry Division; Updated December 9, 1999
  http://www.cnie.org/nle/ag-63.html

• Friends of the Earth
  Safer Chemicals Campaign
  http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/
  • Health Threats
    http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/issues/health_threats/

  • Cutting the Risks
    http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/issues/cutting_the_risk/index.html

  • Retailers pledge action on risky chemicals
    Not in this country! This is from the UK. I guess we just aren't worth it here in the USA.
    Here, industry fights legislation attempts to make products safer and to inform the public of
    known risks. It has happened many times over and again in the fall of 200f in California. -- barb
    http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/success_stories/retailer_action_risky_chemicals.html

  
  
• FROGS AND PHILOSOPHY
  . RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #380; March 10, 1994
  http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r380.html

• Health Effects of Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) - Effects in Laboratory Animals
  Environmental Working Group
  http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/beautysecrets/presskit/healtheffects.html

• Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
  By Dr A. Michael Warhurst, an environmental chemist who works for WWF in Brussels.
  http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/
  
  
  • Some chemicals implicated so far
    http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/chemicals.html

  
  
  
• Hormone-disrupting Chemicals Found In Household Soaps
  World Wildlife Fund, Canada
  http://www.life.ca/nl/54/soaps.html

• Hormone Heresy - Estrogen's Deadly Truth, Part 1
  by Sherrill Sellman
  http://www.all-natural.com/estrog-1.html

• THE HORMONE SYSTEM AND CHEMICALS
  Hormones regulate how the human body functions in many ways. Many chemicals
  are known to mimic human hormones or interfere with the body's ability to receive
  the messages the body sends via the hormone system.
  http://www.austin360.com/community/groups/vanguard/hormone_system_and_c.html
  
  
• HRT Resource
  http://www.angelfire.com/fl/endohystnhrt/hrt.html

• Hypospadias and Endocrine Disruption: Is There a Connection?
  Laurence S. Baskin,1 Katherine Himes,2 and Theo Colborn3
  1Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA;
  2Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Wildlife and
  Contaminants Program, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C., USA
  
  "Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital anomalies in the United States;
  it occurs in approximately 1 in 250 newborns or roughly 1 in 125 live male births (1,2).
  Hypospadias can be defined as an arrest in normal development of the urethral, foreskin,
  and ventral aspect of the penis. This results in a wide range of abnormalities, with the
  urethral opening being anywhere along the shaft of the penis, within the scrotum,
  or even in the perineum (3). The more severe forms of hypospadias are associated with
  penile curvature. Left uncorrected, patients with severe hypospadias may need to sit
  down to void and tend to shun intimate relationships because of the fears related to
  abnormal sexuality. Babies born with severe hypospadias and penile curvature may
  have "ambiguous genitalia" in the newborn period, making an immediate accurate
  sex assignment difficult. ... "
  Abstract: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/109p1175-1183baskin/abstract.html

  Full article for members: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/members/2001/109p1175-1183baskin/baskin-full.html

  For more on Hypospadias, see EHN's section, below.

  
  

• Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
  "These pages provide an introduction to the effects of hormone disrupting chemicals on man and the
  environment, and the response of Governments and industry to this problem. Other terms used to
  describe these chemicals include xenoestrogens, oestrogenic (estrogenic), hormone mimicking and
  endocrine disrupting chemicals.
  
  "These pages are aimed at anyone interested in the subject, and include references to other research
  and reviews for those interested in investigating the field further."
  http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/index.html

• Not Too Pretty - Report on phthalates in cosmetics and fragrances
  http://www.nottoopretty.org

• OUR STOLEN FUTURE --PART 1
  RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #486; March 21, 1996
  http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r486.html

• OUR STOLEN FUTURE --PART 2
  . RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #487; March 28, 1996
  http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r487.html

  Phthalates -- See EHN's section on Phthalates at
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/p.htm#Phthalates

• SafeKidsNow.net
  Hormone Disruptors: New Class of Chemicals Can Affect How a Child Develops
  http://environet.policy.net/health/products/soutline.vtml?PROACTIVE_ID=cecfcfcdcacacdcec6c5cecfcfcfc5cecfcacbcccbcbcec6c7c5cf

• Sierra Club search page --
  http://www.sierraclub.org/cgi-bin/AT-allsearch.exe
  
  
• Sierra Club--Environmental Disruptors: Where Are They?
  Where do we find endocrine disruptors, chemicals that can
  disrupt living systems?
  http://www.sierraclub.org/misc/envirodisruptors.html
  
  
  • Hormone Impostors
    Summary: Hormone Impostors. By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson
    Myers Theo Colborn put the pieces together and shook the world: commonly used
    synthetic chemicals may threaten human fertility. From the corner of her eye, Theo Colborn
    caught sight of another scientific report shooting across the floor and settling on the carpet.
    She didn't even bother to turn her head. In hopes of slowing the tide of paper that was
    swamping her office, she had taken to closing her door, but it had done little good.
    http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199701/JFCLO1.html
    
    
  • Poison Pens
    "Summary: Poison Pens. When science fails, try public relations: the chemical industry's
    attempt to discredit Our Stolen Future. by David Helvarg In 1962, E. Bruce Harrison and
    other PR whizzes working for the Manufacturing Chemists Association made their
    reputations coordinating attacks on Rachel Carson after the publication of her landmark
    expose of chemical pesticides, Silent Spring. Together with colleagues from DuPont,
    Monsanto, Shell, Dow Chemical, and W.R. Grace, they established industry front groups, a
    media-outreach program, hostile mailings, and public forums for industry-funded "third
    party experts," including doctors and scientists willing to attack Carson's personal and
    professional credibility while defending the use of DDT and other toxic compounds. One
    chemical company even tried to intimidate Carson's publisher into not printing the book."
    http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199701/jfclo2.html
  
  
  
• Time Magazine
  "Teens Before Their Time: With budding breasts and pubic hair, girls are developing
  earlier than ever. What's causing it? And what are the psychological effects?"
  By Michael D. Lemonick; OCTOBER 30, 2000; Vol. 156, No. 18 [in 4 parts]
  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,58388,00.html
  • "Teens Before Their Time: With budding breasts and pubic hair, girls are developing
    earlier than ever. What's causing it? And what are the psychological effects?"
    By Michael D. Lemonick
    Whole article available here on one page. -- barb
    http://www.time.com/time/classroom/psych/unit2_article6.html

• Toxic Bodies: Endocrine Disruption, Our Imperiled Future
  By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
  Healing Our World: Weekly Comment; Environment News Service
  http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul2000/2000L-07-31g.html

• Tulane University
  http://www.law.tulane.edu/events.htm
  • ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR NEWS
    http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/newsviews/whatsnew/

  • Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones (EEOH).
    http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/

  • Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research (CBR)
    http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/cbr/tsc/
    • Biomonitoring
      http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/cbr/research/biomonitoring.html

    • Women's Health/fibroids http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/cbr/research/women.html

    • Environmental Endocrinology
      http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/cbr/research/endocrinology.html

    • WWF -- World Wildlife Fund, Canada
      [WWF United States seems to concentrate on endangered species --
      other than human. -- barb]
      
      
      Hormone Copy-Cats video available! ($15 or free on return basis)
      http://www.wwfcanada.org/hormone-disruptors/video.htm
      
      Information on hormone disruptors --
      http://www.wwfcanada.org/hormone-disruptors/index.html
      
      List of Known & Suspected Hormone Disruptor
      http://www.wwfcanada.org/hormone-disruptors/list.htm
    
    Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
    I've refused HRT. Was told I should take it even though I was having no symptoms and was
    well passed the time that if I were to have hot flashes, I would have had them. As it was, I've
    always taken calcium and magnesium and I'm willing to bet that's one of the reasons I got
    through life without depending on HRT in any of its manifestations. -- barb
    
    
    • A Doctor Talks About...
      Why researchers stopped the Women's Health Initiative study of
      estrogen and progestin and what this means for you.
      http://www.health.harvard.edu/page.cfm?name=HRTnews

    
    
  Hospitals & HMOs and
  A roster of Occupational & Environmental Clinics
  Also check EHN's Access/Hospitals on "Take Heart!" for Fragrance-FREE Hospitals
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnhompg/takheart.htm#Hospitals

  See:
  

  Legal Chat Center
  By Counsel.net
  http://www.counsel.net/chat/

  "What is a Pesticide," by U.S. EPA
  http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/

  • An Environmental Rx for the Health Care Industry
    "[A]n international coalition of nurses,physicians, public health experts, environmental
    justice organizations, labor unions, hospitals, universities, breast cancer and
    endometriosis activists, religious leaders and food safety advocates working to
    reform the environmental and public health practices of the health care industry.
    http://www.igc.org/psr/hcrisk.html
    
    
  • The Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics
    http://www.aoec.org/ClinList.htm

  • California Department of Managed Health Care
    http://www.hmohelp.ca.gov/

  • California's Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Reduction
    Waste Reduction Activities for Hospitals
    http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BizWaste/Factsheets/Hospital.htm

  • Colorado HealthNet
    HTTP://www.coloradohealthnet.org/
    
    
  • Dealing With Kaiser and Other HMOs
    Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
    Melissa Kaplan, 2001.
    http://www.sonic.net/melissk/kaiser.html

  • EHN's links to Fragrance-free Information
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/f.htm#Fragrance-Free
    Fragrance-Free Hospitals
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnhompg/takheart.htm#Hospitals

  • HEAL of Southern Arizona¼s MCS Accommodations Letter
    MCS Hospital Access
    http://www.healsoaz.org/hospital%20access.htm

  • Health Care Without Harm
    Also, click out to info on Mercury and waste incinerators
    http://www.noharm.org
    • Pesticides, Fragrances & Cleaners
      http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/issue

    • Cleaners and Disinfectants
      http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/CleanersDis

    • Fragrances
      http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/Fragrances

  • Healthier Hospitals: A Comprehensive Guide to Assist in the Medical Care of
    the Patient with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) Disability - a booklet:
    "Helpful for both patients and hospital adminstration.
    Use this book before you need to use the hospital." -- Toni Temple
    
    31 pp, Spiral bound; 1996; available through EHN's BOOK page
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/books/bookordr.htm
    
    
    • Toni Temple's Healthier Hospitals Available through ONFCI and also through EHN
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/books/bookordr.htm
      
      
    • See ONFCI's press release:
      HEALTHIER HOSPITALS" ENABLES HEALTH CARE CENTERS
      TO MEET NEEDS OF THE CHEMICALLY DISABLED
      http://1freespace.com/onfci/re000601.html
      
      
    • Healthier Hospitals manual is credited as a resource in Mercy Hospitals (California) protocol for MCS
      http://www.lassentech.com/eimcspro.html

  • "Hospitalization for the Chemically Sensitive Patient" by Selene Anema, RN
    Those with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or Environmental Illness Build New Lives
    http://www.citlink.net/~bhima/hospital.htm

  • Hospitals and IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
    
    • Pest Management in New York State Hospitals: Risk Reduction and Health Promotion
      Attorney General of New York State; December 1995
      http://www.oag.state.ny.us/environment/hospital95.html
      
  • Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
    http://www.h2e-online.org/

  • How to be fragrance-free
    by Peggy Munson
    http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html

    
    
    

  • Jewish Hospital Recognizes MCS and Develops Policy
    
    http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/support.htm
    
    
  • Kaiser Permanente
    http://www.kaiserpermanente.org
    
    
    • 'Tis the Season for Allergies
      "Don't use powders, aerosol sprays, and perfumes, which can irritate your nose. Use household cleaners in well-ventilated areas only . . . "
      Come on, Kaiser, YOU can -- or should! -- do better than that! Synthetic fragranc chemicals in
      perfumes, as well as all of the other personal care products and cleaning and maintenance
      products carrying the benign-sounding word, "fragrance," release a load of petrochemical
      pollutants to body, air and wastewater. Fragrances cause, trigger and exacerbate asthma, and the
      same can be said for skin conditions like acne, eczema, rashes, hives, flushing, itching and burning.
      Fragrance chemicals can cause neurological symptoms and some store in adipose (fatty)
      tissue, which makes an astute individual wonder about systemic and long-term effects. Some of
      the chemicals are known or suspected teratogens (affecting embryonic and fetal development),
      some are carcinogens (capable of causing cancer), some, like phthalates, are hormone disrupters.
      The fragrance industry is self-regulated and trade secret-protected. Their focus on testing has
      been for the skin conditions of the primary user. There is no concern for the fetus,
      infant, child, young, middle-aged or elderly adult who suffer adverse events at secondary and
      tertiary levels of exposure. Let's start telling it like it is! -- barb
      http://www.kp.org/partnersinhealth/spring99/allergies.html

    
    
    
  • MASCO (Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc.)
    LONGWOOD MEDICAL AND ACADEMIC AREA - FACT SHEET
    http://www.masco.org/aboutLMA_facts.htm
    • About the Mercury Work Group
      http://www.masco.org/mercury/

  • Partners Program of Excellence in Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
    http://www.partners.org/cgi-view/cgipy.exe/homepage.py?dept_id=7376

  • Pest Management in New York State Hospitals:
    Risk Reduction and Health Promotion
    Attorney General of New York State; December 1995
    Available as hard copy - call 518.474.8096
    http://www.oag.state.ny.us/environment/hospital95.html

  • Sun Sentinel, South Florida
    Scented products at hospitals have power to harm
    
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,10000000000041434,00.html
    
    
    • FAQs
      http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/helpindex.htm
  
  
  
• Sustainable Hospitals
  http://www.sustainablehospitals.org/cgi-bin/DB_Index.cgi

• Toxic Chemical Use in Hospitals
  http://www.nursechemicalinjury.homestead.com/index.html

http://www.algonet.se/~optima/pagespinner.html

*See Symptoms: http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/s.htm#Symptoms

• Air Quality Becomes An Issue With Hotels
  By THOMAS GOETZ; Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
  Note from barb, For my money, the paragraph that says it all is:
  "Air quality just 'wasn't on the industry's radar screen,' says Gus Newbury, vice president
  of engineering at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., which owns the
  Sheraton and Westin brands. 'There have been no standards, so it's been difficult to know
  what to do.' "
  http://travel.wsj.com/n/SB929720974527797797-hotel-and-car.html

  
  

• Breathing Easy In America's First Environmentally-Smart Hotel
  By Jennifer Bogo; Jan-Feb 2000; E-Magazine
  http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_2000/0100gl_travel.html
  
  
• Delta Chelsea Inn, Toronto
  "... The hotel has ten „environmentally sensitive¾ rooms..."
  http://www.life.ca/nl/47/travel.html

• Eco Directory - Travel (resources)
  From their home page, click on Eco Travel, Bed & Breakfasts. -- barb
  http://www.ecodirectory.com/

• El Santuario Eco Retreat Center
  Baja California
  http://www.El-Santuario.com/noframes/welcome2.htm
  • Eco Activities
    http://www.El-Santuario.com/noframes/ecoactivites2.htm

  • Healing Arts
    http://www.El-Santuario.com/noframes/healing2.htm

  • Rates
    http://www.El-Santuario.com/noframes/rates2.htm

• Extended Stay America
  I know of one of these hotels in the SF Bay Area that will respect the needs of the chemically
  sensitive and not clean with scented products while you stay with them. However, they do clean
  in between guests with scented products. And, as I reacted to "something" when I stepped
  into their lobby, I've learned from desk personnel that they do pipe in air "fresheners" through
  their ventilating system. Apparently, this is a corporate, not local, decision. You, too, can
  write to corporate headquarters about these practices at extstay@extstay.com -- barb
  http://www.studioplus.com/

• EverGreen Rooms by Hartford
  Hotel rooms
  http://www.evergreenrooms.com/script/hotel.cgi
  
  
• Florida Hotels, an article
  http://www.alligator.org/edit/issues/96-sprg/960411/b8ht.htm
  
  
• Green Hotels Association
  Water saving, energy saving, . . . I can't find anything about being fragrance-free. barb
  http://www.greenhotels.com/

• GREEN products, according to the US Dept. of the Interior --
  "MUST NOT contain petrochemical-derived fragrances." [emphasis added]
  http://www.doi.gov/greening/sustain/trad.html

• GreenSuites International
  (Provides product list)
  http://www.greensuites.com/
  
  
• Habitat Suites
  http://www.habitatsuites.com/
  • Our Environmental Side
    We do many things in our everyday practice to support our goals; a few of them are:
      Grounds are maintained with the use of natural, nontoxic fertilizers and pesticides
      Nontoxic, phosphate-free, natural cleansers used in cleaning
      Air ozonators/ionizers used for clean air quality in suites
      Biodegradable, recycled, unbleached paper products/recycling program
      Ladybugs populate our ground for healthy plants, the natural chemical free way
    http://www.habitatsuites.com/ourstory.htm

• Hampton Inns
  Now, I cannot speak for all Hampton Inns, nor for everyone living with the effects of chemical
  injury. The OBVIOUS stated, I can say that I had no trouble in any of the Hampton Inns in
  which we stayed. We always asked to do a "nose check" before accepting a room. In my
  particular case, I could sleep on their sheets and use their towels. My son even used their shampoo
  and that did not set me off. However, I always travel with my own shampoo and soap . . . even
  pillows and sheets, which has come in handy from time to time. Best wishes for safer, greener
  travel. And, remember, the Dept of the Interior states that if it is GREEN it MUST NOT
  contain petrochemical derived-fragrances. [emphasis added] -- barb
  Reserve online or Call 1-800-HAMPTON
  http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/index.jhtml;jsessionid=TKW4WTLBOVIV2CSGBI1MVCQKIYFC5UUC

• "Healthy Hotels", an article
  SF Bay Guardian:
  http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/healthyhotels.html
  
  
• Hotels, Apartments Specializing in Sensitivity Training
  Real Estate News And Advice; September 2, 1999
  By Stuart Lieberman, Esq
  http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtcpages/19990902_sensitivity.htm
  
  
• Jack London Inn
  Offering guests a full-service hotel in the heart of historic Jack London Square
  for over 30 years has made Jack London Inn an Oakland tradition.
  444 Embarcadero West
  Oakland, CA 94607
  Ph: (800) 549-8780
  or (510) 444-2032
  Fax: (510) 834-3074
  info@JackLondonInn.com
  NOTE: A friend stayed here in September 2000. She had asked that they clean
  her room with only water, not add soaps, etc. They complied. She was healthy AND
  enjoyed the locale. -- barb
  http://www.jacklondoninn.com/

• Lake House Bed & Breakfast "Located on Lake Sammamish in the town of Sammanish, between Redmond and
  Issaquah, the Lake House Bed and Breakfast is a private lodge retreat. ...
  "We promote a healthful environment, serving local, fresh and organic meals, and using
  only allergy-relief bedding and chemical-free cleaning aids. Smoking not permitted
  on the premisis."
  http://www.lakehousebb.net/

• Lake Tahoe, California
  Bed and Breakfast -- The Shore House
  "The Shore House at Lake Tahoe, located in Tahoe Vista, CA on the North Shore
  of beautiful Lake Tahoe. The Shore House is the ultimate Northern California
  vacation getaway, centrally located to all of the lake and mountain activities.
  Balconies and decks, offering fabulous panoramic views of our pristine lake and
  surrounding snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains, surround each floor. ..."
  
  http://www.shorehouselaketahoe.com/
  
  As one may guess when thinking of Tahoe, it ain't cheap. But as a fellow MCSer writes:
  "We had a great time in Tahoe, fully accomodated at the B&B there (www.shorehouselaketahoe.com). ...

  "I highly recommend this place for any one at my level of sensitivity or below. Extremely
  sensitive people might have trouble; we did have to take out extra pillows, for
  example, and I didn't use their sheets. But they don't use air fresheners, all wood furniture,
  and I didn't smell the carpets or drapes. Of course you would have to
  speak to the innkeepers in advance!! You are right on the shore of Lake Tahoe, can go
  swimming right there, kayaking from there, etc.
  
  

  
  
• The Natural Place - Environmental Residence and Hotel
  For People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)
  http://www.thenaturalplace.com/

• New Life Retreat and Spa - Center for Renewal and Healing
  Lanark County, (50 min SW of Ottawa) Ontario, Canada
  Phone: (613) 259-3337
  Fax: (613) 259-3031
  E-mail Us healing@newliferetreat.com
  http://www.newliferetreat.com/

• OKOTEL, Hamburg: die komfortable alternative
  http://home.t-online.de/home/oekotel
  
  
• Pride and Joy Environmental Resort catering to MCS and EI
  http://www.pridejoyresort.com/
  
  
• The Safer Travel Directory - Travel accommodation guide for the chemically sensitive person
  http://mcstravel.resourcez.com/

• San Francisco Hotels - a Sunset article by Jeff Phillips
  Please NOTE: I have not had a chance to research any of the hotels mentioned in the article to
  see if they implement "cleaner air" policies. For now (2/23/01) I simply lead you to this
  article. IF you do decide to stay in one of these hotels and find that you can breathe, please let
  me know and I shall share that info with others. Thanks. -- barb
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1216/n5_v199/20039397/print.jhtml

  
  

• Super 8
  As in any case, check out for yourself, but I was able to stay in Super 8 motels
  in 1997, 1999, and off and on during the 2000s. At every Super 8, we were
  allowed to first check the room before signing in. -- barb wilkie
  http://www.super8.com/ctg/cgi-bin/Super8
  
  
• Travel and MCS - includes hotel references
  http://members.aol.com/homeview2/info/index.htm#travel

Consumer Products
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/c.htm#Consumer

EMF/EMR
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/e.htm#EMF

National arm*A*Syst and Home*A*Syst Program
Click on a state's name to learn what information is available in that state.
California has limited information, but Missouri has many links. -- barb
http://cf.uwex.edu/ces/farmasyst/library/pickstateform.cfm

Household Hazardous Waste Products



• Earth 911
  http://www.earth911.org/master.asp

• Household Hazardous Products
  Household Hazardous Waste Project, University of Missouri
  http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/wasteman/wm6003.htm

• Household Hazardous Waste
  http://outreach.missouri.edu/owm/hhw.htm

• Household Hazardous Waste
  St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District
  http://www.stlouisjeffersonswmd.org/hhw.htm
  • DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE PRODUCTS
    http://www.stlouisjeffersonswmd.org/hhwdesc.htm#DescHHWProds

  • POTENTIAL HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE PRODUCTS
    http://www.stlouisjeffersonswmd.org/hhwdesc.htm#PotentialHHWprods

• What is Household Hazardous Waste?
  US EPA
  http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/househld/hhw.htm

Household Products

• Commercial Detergent Alternatives
  http://www.edf.org/Earth2Kids/teachers/house_products.html
  
  
• Facts about household products, The
  http://www.edf.org/links/ehhi/
  
  
  • Prepared by: Kathleen Parrott, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Housing Extension Specialist
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Quoting Script for transparency #3
    Indoor air quality can be impacted by some chemicals used to clean, protect, maintain, and
    decorate the home and its furnishings, for personal care and grooming, and for hobbies.
    
    Products can release chemicals into the air during use, as the product dries or cures, or off
    gas as the products age.
    
    Examples of household products that could be an indoor air quality problem:

    paints	cleaning products	hobby products
    varnishes	disinfectants	cosmetics and personal care products
    waxes	degreasers
    strippers	pesticides
    caulking adhesives	air fresheners

    http://www.montana.edu:80/wwwcxair/housprod.html
  
  
  
• Indoor Air Pollution Fact Sheet - Household Products
  American Lung Association - ALA
  This page contains important information and it surely is worth reading. Unfortunately,
  the unsuspecting public is led to believe that the problems given are simply associated with
  "Aerosol spray products,... Chlorine bleach and Rug and upholstery cleaners." Again, you
  get information on adverse health effects of fragrances from the ALA by innuendo.

  This page conveniently ignores the fact that our modern petrochemically derived FRAGRANCES
  have been crafted to quickly volatilize, and to waft further and last longer on the ambient air.
  It matters not whether FRAGRANCES are used as colognes or perfume, or are found in an
  enormous variety of personal care products, or in our household and janitorial cleaning and
  maintenance products, fragrances can cause the health problems listed. A real hasardous
  household polluter is fabric softeners. Not only does its scent and other chemicals pollute the
  fabric in the laundry facility and the home or building housing that laundry area, but those
  chemicals pollute the outdoor air for blocks around while in use in the laundry. Then they pollute
  the air -- AND OUR BODIES -- when the laudered item is worn or used.

  FRAGRANCES are made to become one with the air we all must breathe, regardless of stage of
  development or heath. ONLY YOU can make a difference by purchasing safer, cleaner products. -- barb
  http://www.lungusa.org/air/household_products.html

Housing --
Please remember, I bring you information appearing on this site as a courtesy. It is not a
substitute for your own good common sense, or professional health care or advice gained
elsewhere. Please use only as a tool to assist you in gathering information, which you have every
right to know. A health care practitioner should always be consulted for any health problem
and a lawyer consulted for any legal matter . . . and for this section, I suggest you
contact your own real estate agent, using information available from EHN to educate
those who have never heard of MCS or fragrance sensitization or perfume poisoning or
pesticide poisoning, or poisoning by carpets, paints, and other building materials.
And, to further help you to help yourself and others, I suggest a visit to SaferBuilding at
http://saferbuilding.com/.. -- barb

Remember! Federal Fair Housing Law
HUD- 928.1 (8-93)
It is illegal to discriminate against any person because of:


• Race,
• Color,
• Religion,
• Sex,
• Handicap,
• Familial status, or
• National origin.
Complaints? Call:
1.800.699.9777 (toll free)
1.800.927.9275 (TDD)
May 6, 2006 -- Ecology House

Dear Folks,
I am announcing again that the Ecology House waiting list is still open &
accepting applications. I would like to urge everyone to sign up for it
who needs MCS-safe housing. Ecology House is a HUD sponsored housing
complex, so you need to be low income to apply. Call Jose Felix, Manager
to apply: 415-456-4453. He is in on Mondays & Thursdays, but you can
leave a message anytime.

Louise



EHN's limited attempt at ads

EHN doesn't generally handle housing ads on its website as does Cyndi Norman and her
Immune Web Classifeds -- http://www.immuneweb.org/classifieds/housing.html --
but as housing is so tight in the SF Bay Area, I'll build ads from time to time if the folks
request it of me. PLEASE remember to let me know when the rooms/apartments
or houses have been rented. And everyone, please know/remember that when
I'm not working, or my computer is not working, EHN's site is not updated.
This website is a one-pony show.

PLEASE! If the space offered doesn't seem to fit your needs, please, please do not
try to put extra demands on the individual renting or selling. There are some folks
with MCS who will find the home an ideal setting, without added burdens to the
one offering the space.

IF you do accept the housing arrangement, then do everything in your power to be
the perfect guest and follow "House Rules." (I invoked "House Rules" when
raising my children and when serving as hostess to their friends. It worked well with
the young folks, I hope HOUSE RULES will work with those who can offer space
and for those living with MCS who must seek shelter on either a temporary or
more permanent basis.) Thanks for your cooperation. Remember, the person offering
the home or space may well be living with MCS, CFIDS, FM, GWS, . . . too. -- barb



For information on accommodating those with fragrance sensitization, you may wish to check out:
Fragrance-Free Defined by Ecology House Residents
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ecologyh/ecohsrul.htm
May 6, 2006

Dear Folks,
I am announcing again that the Ecology House waiting list is still open &
accepting applications. I would like to urge everyone to sign up for it
who needs MCS-safe housing. Ecology House is a HUD sponsored housing
complex, so you need to be low income to apply. Call Jose Felix, Manager
to apply: 415-456-4453. He is in on Mondays & Thursdays, but you can
leave a message anytime.

Louise




• MCS Safe Shelter USA
  To learn more about the mcssafesheltersusa group, please visit, and then join if you care to:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mcssafeshelterusa

    

  Arizona --
  

  • Snowflake area.
    For detailed info, see EHN's special info page
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/houseads.htm

  California --
  
  
  Northern California
  
  
  • Realtor/Broker in Berkeley -- check with Carol T. Jekabson before you despair of ever finding an agent.
    Carol T. Jekabson Realty
    Voicemail: 510.273.9322
    Ms. Jekabson has been selling for 18 years and handles both buying and selling of homes.
    She has capably served several clients who had hyper allergies.
    
    I received this name from another broker. Other than my brief phone call, I do not know her, nor
    does she know me. She graciously allowed me to put up her contact information to help those
    of you seeking a realtor who may understand your needs of MCS accommodation.
    
    Ms. Jekabson impressed me by telling me she has learned from her clients. Ahhhh, someone
    willing to learn what we need in the form of accommodation so we may have access. Good luck to
    one and all! -- barb

    Well, now, an update as of Apr. 2006 and this fits into SMALL WORLD category. I have just
    heard from a friend, who was Googling her sister and came up with EHN's website and couldn't
    figure out why until she saw this section. Little did I know. Now, thanks to my friend I have a
    website for Carol T. Jekabson Realty . . .
    http://www.jekabsonre.com/index.html
    

  • Corte Madera
    Studio Apartment Available (single studio, next to family dwelling)
    320 sq ft ~$900; partially furnished; ground level; separate entrance; quiet street
    EI conscious landlord, does own repairs; relatively (but not super) safe;
    considering accepting section 8
    Email Sandy Ross, healthhab@igc.org

  • San Rafael
    
    Check with SaferBuilding.com folks to see if they have recently remodeled any houses for the already chemically injured. Their press release can be read at:
    http://www.saferbuilding.com/
    Press release:
    http://www.saferbuilding.com/press.php
    
    
    • 2 bedroom in-law unit in a private, non-toxic home, in cental Marin County.*
      Treat yourself to a lifestyle you can only find in a private home. This sunny in-law unit
      has a double glass door private entry, separate living space and private bath. Situated in a
      non-toxic home, made of all natural materials, it features a cathedral ceiling and
      Italian tile floors. The kitchen is all electric, and the unit has it's own washer/dryer. The
      unit has a private redwood deck with views of surrounding hillsides and a baby
      redwood grove. Enjoy living in an ecology-minded home, constructed with all natural
      materials and "green oriented" fragrance free neighbors just like you. No pesticides have
      been used on the property since 1991.
      Photos online at: _http://naturalhome.org/rental/inlaw_

      Keep this site in mind when looking in San Rafael, Marin County, California. -- barb
      http://naturalhome.org/rental/studio

    _________ Contact Park@SaferRemodel.com or call 510-610-1374.
  • WANTED: Marin County, particularly
    EI/MCS - SAFE(R) Housing wanted Northern California
    
    Laurie Frank has been looking for safe housing in MARIN.
    Must accept section 8. If you have any leads, leave a
    message at 415-267-6162. (Fall 2001)
    

  • Mendocino

    Dear Friends,
    We are still looking for housing.

    We must be out of our home by October 10 and we have not been able to find a home
    with even the basic "safer housing" needs. These basics include a country property
    where no herbicides or pesticides have been used in the home or on the property, no
    newer synthetic carpets, no fresh paint (this one has been the most difficult to find!), and
    partial wheelchair access (BDR, BA, Kitchen). Please see the attached flyer for information.

    As our deadline approaches we have increased our geographic parameters to include
    Gualala (Mendocino County, CA) to Ferndale (Humboldt County, CA), from the
    coast to 8 miles in.Ý

    We are willing to consider any "safer" housing including smaller spaces, or 2 separate
    spaces as interim housing while we continue to look. Short-term housing is another
    stop-gap measure. If we are able to only find housing for one, it is most important
    that we find safe housing for Naja. I can camp, or couch surf. Naja is physically unable to.

    Do you know of anyone with property/housing for sale who may be willing to rent
    it out for the winter? Often homes on the market during the Autumn and Winter sit
    unsold until the Spring. At least their home could be bringing in a rental income and
    providing much needed temporary shelter.

    Please continue to keep me and Naja in mind. We can be reached at
    707-937-2490 or friedaf@mcn.org

    After October 10, you can still contact me at my email address, or at
    

    P. O. Box 988,
    Mendocino CA 95460.
    
    We really appreciate your help, best wishes, and prayers.
    Thanks, Frieda

    ---------------------

    
    EI SAFER HOUSE FOR SALE IN COASTAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 3 BDR, 1-3/4 BA,
    Office, Kitchen/Dining Area, LR(cathedral ceilings, floor to ceiling windows with garden
    and forest views), Foyer/Mud Room, 1800 sq. ft. With a 1BDR, 1 BA, detached cabin.
    On 5 acres in Pygmy Forest. Large landscaped garden, and a fenced vegetable garden,
    with the remaining acreage Pygmy to transitional Redwood Forest. 1.5 miles from
    the ocean and the village of Mendocino.

    The main house is a Lindal Cedar home. It is approximately 14 years old. The kitchen,
    bathrooms, and foyer are linoleum. Allthe ceilings are knotty cedar. The bedrooms, living
    room, office, and hallway floors are organic wool carpeting, which is tacked down.
    The inside of the house down stairs, has wheelchair access to the kitchen, living room,
    dining room, and foyer, the back bedrooms and bathroom are tight through the
    doors, and are at difficult angles, the three stairs to the landing at the entry would need
    to be ramped. The cabinets contain some particle board and countertops are formica-
    like, both are original and seem mostly outgassed.

    There is a cast iron spiral staircase up to the master bedroom and bathroom, the
    remaining rooms are on the first floor. A very ice house in a beautiful setting. No
    herbicides, pesticides, freshpaints, or finishes have been used in the main house or on
    the property for at least 7 years, no scented or chemical cleaning products for the past
    4 years,
    the product history prior to that is unknown. The cabin is newer construction, with
    commercial carpeting, and newer linoleum. There is an open application for a cell tower
    to be built approximately 700 feet from the property, while there is local opposition
    to this application, recent developments have compromised Mendocino's wireless
    free status. Property is not on the market yet.

    Landlord is asking $750,000. Anyone seriously interested in buying this home should
    contact our buyer's agent for aÝ comparative market analysis of this property. Please
    
    only call or email if you are seriously interested. We are E.I.tenants, we'd like to see
    E.I. people in this home. We would be VERY pleased to stay in the home while the
    process of selling took place, and beyond if possible, otherwise we will be forced to
    move by October 10. Thanks. 707-937-2490 or friedaf@mcn.org.

    
    

  • San Carlos
    2 bd 2 ba apt to share in San Carlos w/view
    "suzanne" replace the 2 with an @

    
    

  • Santa Rosa area
    Room in EI safe house will be available in Santa Rosa area for female EI only.
    Share house with one other EI woman. Sorry no pets! Please call for more info:
    707.433.7839.

  Southern California --
  
  • Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains
    It's a 3-bedroom (one bedroom is a very large loft), 1 3/4 bath house.
    Price is $275,000.
    It is being handled by Park Place Realty (760-249-1001 or Service.
    A virtual tour of the house is available at this website with a click on
    "pk974    $275,000 - 2+Bd 1?Ba"
    http://desertlink.com/dan-fisher/index.html

    That should take you to:
    http://desertlink.com/parkplacerealty/wrightwood-homes/pk974.html
    For more detailed information, visit EHN's
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/houseads.htm

  Florida --
  

  • The Natural Place
    Environmentally friendly Residence and Hotel
    For people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Since 1992
    
    • No smoking or pets
      
    • Non-Toxic Pest Control
      
    • Filtered Air and Water
      
    • Natural Fragrance-Free Cleaners
      
    • 100% Cotton Bedding and Linen
      
    • Ocean and BeachÝone andÝa halfÝblocks
      
    • Reduced Long Term Rates
      
    Alan and Joyce Charney (954) 428-5438
    1917 NE 5th St., Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
    http://www.thenaturalplace.com

  • SARASOTA, FL
    MCS SAFE HOUSE TO SHARE -- BEAUTIFUL AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD.
    RENTER WILL HAVE FURNISHED PRIVATE LIVING ROOM, 1 BEDROOM, BATH & 1 ROOM FOR
    HOME OFFICE OR DEN. SHARED KITCHEN & LAUNDRY. Ý$600.00 MO.
    E-mail: sc246@earthlink.net

  • Tampa, FL
    HOUSE FOR SALE, Tampa, FL 33604. Fantastic buy in North Tampa,
    3 bedrooms, 2 baths, two offices, ceramic tile in living areas, carpet in bedrooms,
    large all-electric kitchen, large shed & treehouse for the kids.
    Price $113,500. Built 1979, 1,386 SqFt
    Owner-occupied. MLS: 2000071 (Area 220).
    Agent: Alison DiChristopher. Office 813-949-7444, Home 813-961-1188.
    Or write to me claire@blazingtattles.com
    
    For more detailed info, including pictures, front and back, see EHN's special info page
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/houseads.htm

  
  Oregon - A public service announcement ...
  This is a start-up project. -- barb (12/01)
  
  Environmentally Safer Housing
  We are dedicated to providing a community housing facility for the chemically sensitive
  in a clean air environment to include rental apartments, a community center, grounds
  for trailers, tents and organic gardens. We plan to develop duplexes and/or individual
  home sites for sale and/or rent in the future.
  
  
  Safe Haven Community Housing
  8440 SW Canyon Drive
  Portland, Oregon 97225
  judiths@teleport.com
  
  http://www.geocities.com/safehavencommunity/

  
  

  Texas --
  
  • Entered Dec. 9, 2003 . . . Right now, the family doesn't know when it will become available.
    Can be divided into two five acre lots with homes for sale to two people.

    "Celebrated Texas Healthy Home For Sale -- Live wrapped in the arms of nature. Home
    full of happiness and good health looking for special new owners! Ideal for people
    seeking privacy, space, and good air. Access to Blanco River. ..."
    
    " ... Designed for healthy living, all wood "tree house" on 10 wooded acres with river
    access, guest house and large two story garage, rainwater collection and two wells,
    tornado shelter; For Sale By Owner $393,000."
    

  • Entered Sept. 20, 2003 . . .
    Dallas, Texas -- Specialty Environmental Housing: Apartments for the chemically sensitive
    

    --Located in Dallas, Texas	--Very close to EI doctors
    --Short-term or longer-term	--All Electric, safe neighbors
    --Furnished or unfurnished	=>for information, call 214-696-0477

    
    

  • Entered July 2, 2003 . . . Price reduction: $159,000.00 or best offer
    Marfa Texas, 26 miles from college town (Alpine).
    Marfa's population is 2,400.
    Clean dry air, elevation 4668 ft.
    No farming for 65 miles, no industry.
    House built 1915.
    Brick exterior, renewed cement btwn bricks.
    12 yr-old paint, 11 yr.old roof.
    Heating ducts to Dr. Rae's specs.
    MCSÝowner last 6 years, non-toxic elderlyÝowner prior.
    One rampable step up to porch, former owner used wheelchair.
    On paved road.
    1938 square feet plus porches.
    10-foot ceilings.
    3 "Casa Blanca" ceiling fans
    Patio, grape arbor, fruit trees.
    InteriorÝwalls areÝstucco.
    Kitchen counters are stainless steel.
    Rental unit counter is porcelain.
    On 1/3 acre fenced with chain link.
    Great health food store in Alpine.
    Tucson Coop Warehouse buying club.
    Has rental unit attached with own bathroom.
    2-car detached garage, wired 220.
    Next door neighbor present 2 wks./year.
    Dr. William Rea of environmental health center recommends area. About 30 E.I.s
    Population 2100 cooperative neighbors. Some furniture plus porch and yard.
    All appliances 2-5 years old . Detached garage. 3 phone lines in house, 2 garage
    satalite TV system. Good doctors and dentist organic food too.
    Call Livingston Real Estate atÝ(432) 729-4306.
    safer-air part
    of Texas, as depicted on Scorecard. Call 915.729.4916 -- barb
• Virginia, Quantico --

  LUSTRON homes "free" to anyone who can arrange
  disassembly and removal from Quantico VA military base.
  For more information.contact: Elnasgreenhouse$yahoo.com
  [Replace $ with the other symbol] Serious inquiries only, please.

  Website: http://lustronsatquantico.com/

--end EHN ads, but not end of Housing info, keep on scrolling! --


Alpha Omega Christian Communities For The Chemically Injured
http://members.truepath.com/aocommunities/

The Bay Area Homeless Alliance (BAHA)

Housing Listings - being reviewed 3/9/00, but check anyway
http://www.baha.org/service.shtml

Or, you can do an all county search for housing
http://www.baha.org/



• Alameda County Housing
  http://www.edenir.org/HOUSING.html
  
  
• Contra Costa Information and Referral
  http://www.crisis-center.org/client5a.html
  
  
• Marin County Housing
  http://www.marinservices.org/cats/house.htm
  
  
  Marin County CIL
  http://4.21.247.58/housing.htm
  
  
  Note: I didn't easily find housing info for the following counties; if you know of links,
  please inform wilworks@lmi.net. Thanks, barb
  
• Napa County Housing
  
• San Francisco City and County, Mayor's Office of Housing
  
  • San Francisco Rent Board
    http://www.sfgov.org/site/rentboard_index.asp?id=2142

• San Mateo
  
• Santa Clara - Community Housing Developers
  
• Solano
  
• Sonoma
  
  
  
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability
http://www.bazelon.org/


• Access to Housing
  http://www.bazelon.org/housing.html



• Build a house!
  REALWOOD, a green contractor, is designing an MCS-safe house and is looking for
  someone who wants to have one built. We also do consultations, remodels and furniture.
  Call Real Lapalme at 510.540.1255. See RealWood website
  http://www.realwood.net/

• Building a house in Snowflake, Arizona
  You can take a picture tour of Dwight and Kathy's house. -- barb
  http://www.asilo.com/house/

• Building Our House (MCS Housing in Snowflake, AZ)
  
  • Our House
    http://www.asilo.com/house/our-house.html

    Chemically Sensitive Non-Toxic Hacienda in Santa Fe, New Mexico
    http://www.chemsenlvng.com/marketplace.html

  • CIIN (Chemical Injury Information Network)
    Housing
    http://www.ciin.org/housing.htm

  • CIL - Centers for Independent Living
    California ILCs
    http://www.cilberkeley.org/ca-ilc.htm
    
    
    • Marin County's CIL housing info
      http://4.21.247.58/housing.htm
    
    
    
  • C O A L I T I O N FOR LOW INCOME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    " 'CDBG is sort of like a little kiss on the forehead. It's the local government's way of
    sayning 'You know your business.' Even if you can't get all the money you need from
    CDBG it's important to get some.' -- Susan Molloy, Environmental Health Network "
    http://www.clicd.org/org/chapter4.htm

  • Colorado Health Net-- click on MCS Library and then use your
    browser's FIND command, or scroll, to locate MCS-related Housing Needs
    HTTP://www.coloradohealthnet.org/mcs/mcs_main.html
    
    Complementary Information:
    • Access
      http://www.ehnca.org/ehnhompg/takheart.htm

    • Books - Safe Housing
      MCS: Health & Environment
      http://www.mcshealthenviron.org/bksHousing.htm

    • Building
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/b.htm#Building

    • Clean
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/c.htm#Clean

    • Craig's List - links nationwide
      Not a sure bet for fragrance-free housing, but let's not leave any stone unturned. When you
      to this page, you can adjust your choices with pull-down menus for area, type, price. -- barb
      http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/apa/

    • EHN's links under Real Estate
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/r.htm#Real
      
      
      
    • Environmental Community Living
      Environmental Web Directory
      Some links may not work . . . but you'll have to contact them w/your complaints. --barb
      http://www.webdirectory.com/Science/Ecology/Environmental_Community_Living/

      
      

    • Green
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/g.htm#Green
      
      
    • Green Affordable Housing Coalition
      Click out to Fact Sheets and other intesting pages -- the URL remains the same. -- barb
      http://www.greenaffordablehousing.org/

    • Healthy or Safe Housing
      All the resource information you could hope to find in one spot. -- barb
      http://www.sccs.com/sccshhos.htm

    • The Healthy House Institute
      http://www.hhinst.com/index.html

    • The Healthy Housing Coalition
      P.O. Box 1213
      Cedar Crest, NM. 87008
      (505)-281-6405
      hhcoalition@earthtones.com
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/HHCMission.html

    • Housing Advocate's Resource List - TASH
      " Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities since 1975."
      http://www.tash.org/community1st/housing.htm

      Carol T. Jekabson Realty
      

    • Carol T. Jekabson Realty
      Phone: 510.527.3494 office
      Voicemail: 510.273.9322
      Ms. Jekabson has been selling for 18 years and handles both buying and selling of homes.
      She has capably served several clients who had hyper allergies.
      
      I received this name from another broker. Other than my brief phone call, I do not know her, nor
      does she know me. She graciously allowed me to put up her contact information to help those
      of you seeking a realtor who may understand your needs of MCS accommodation.
      
      Ms. Jekabson impressed me by telling me she has learned from her clients. Ahhhh, someone
      willing to learn what we need in the form of accommodation so we may have access. Good luck to
      one and all! -- barb

      
      
      

    • Marin's IJ -- Workforce Housing: Hometown Crisis
      "Sky-high housing prices are making it almost impossible for Marin County's
      workforce to live here. In a four-part series the IJ takes a close look at the problem.
      Now, if we could but convince the powers that be that we need SAFER housing . . . -- barb
      http://www.marinij.com/special/workforce/

    • To learn more about Sick Building Syndrome, visit EHN's SBS
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/s.htm#Sick

      
      

    • Sustainable -- links from EHN's site
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/s.htm#Sustainability

    
    
  • Ecology House - San Rafael, California (on EHN's site)
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ecologyh/bldg.htm
    
    
    May 6, 2006
    
    Dear Folks,
    I am announcing again that the Ecology House waiting list is still open &
    accepting applications. I would like to urge everyone to sign up for it
    who needs MCS-safe housing. Ecology House is a HUD sponsored housing
    complex, so you need to be low income to apply. Call Jose Felix, Manager
    to apply: 415-456-4453. He is in on Mondays & Thursdays, but you can
    leave a message anytime.
    
    Louise
    
    
    
    • Fragrance-Free as Defined by Ecology House Residents
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ecologyh/ecohsrul.htm
      
      
    • Q & A
      By Connie Barker
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ecologyh/ecohsqa.htm
      
    
    
  • Ecology House (their own website)
    http://www.ecologyhouse.org or http://www.consultclarity.com/eh/
    
    
  • Environmental Building News
    Check this site out!!!! -- barb
    http://www.buildinggreen.com
    
    
  • Environmental Defense Fund's Scorecard
    Check pollution in your area or prospective housing areas. Remember
    the districts given are large so the information may not reflect your exact locale.
    http://www.scorecard.org/
    
    
  • Environmental Health Coalition of Western Mass. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH GROUP RELEASES HOUSING SURVEY RESULTS http://www.herc.org/hhc/ComingClean.htm

  • Environmental Illness: Locations for Safety and Health
    http://www.web.net/~empower/loc-index.htm
    
    
    • Starting Points
      http://www.web.net/~empower/loc-1.htm
    
    
    
  • Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas, Rating Guide to
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rweinhold/

  • Escalante House -- EI-Safe Housing in Utah
    Tori Woodard, a founding member of the Escalante Wilderness Project
    Escalante House, a nonprofit, nonreligious organization, proposes to build a
    housing community for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
    toriwoodard@scinternet.net http://www.escalantehouse.org
    
    
    Tori Woodard's site
    http://www.rangenet.org/directory/woodardt/

  • The Garden
    http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/
    • HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, COMMUNITIES and SHELTERS for the
      CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE -
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html#HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

    • Overview of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and its relationship to housing
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/mcsoverview.html

    • Safer Travel Directory
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/safertravel.html

    • WEB SITES PERTAINING TO HOUSING AND MCS (a resource list)
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html
      
      
    
    
  • HEAL of Southern Arizona's MCS Housing
    http://www.healsoaz.org/healaccess/housing.htm

  • Healthy & Natural Homes for Sale -- International and National
    P.O. Box 30085, Santa Barbara, CA 93130, USA
    (805) 898.0079 Voice - (805) 898.9199 Fax
    "Subscribe -- To the Healthy & Natural Homes For Sale News Letter. It's FREE!"
    Just email them your email address from their site. -- barb
    http://www.healthyhomesforsale.com/
    • Information for Real Estate Agents
      I know nothing about this site or their work, but it looks promising. -- barb
      http://www.healthyhomesforsale.com/re-info.html

  • Healthy Home Services - Canada
    Safer products for every room in the house and your garden too. -- barb
    http://www.healthyhomeservices.ca/default.cfm

  • Healthy Homes - Vermont
    http://www.healthy-homes.com/index.html
    
    
    • Healing MCS
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/healing.htm
      
      
    
    
  • 
    The Healthy House Institute
    http://www.hhinst.com/index.html
    
    
    • The Healthy House Institute Archives
      http://www.hhinst.com/archives.html
      
      
    • Healthy House Links Page
      http://www.hhinst.com/links.html
      
      
    • Quiz
      http://www.hhinst.com/quiz.html
      
      
  • Healthy Housing Coalition of New Mexico
    "Because Everyone Deserves a Safe Home"
    http://www.herc.org/hhc/Listings.htm
    • Safe Housing Tips - What to Look for in an Existing House for a Healthier Home
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/What2Look4.html

    • MCS & Less Toxic Living
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/MCSfactfict.html

    • MCS Living in New Mexico
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/NMAreaMCSInfo.html

    • Who We Are...
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/HHCMission.html

  • Help for the Homeless - HUD
    http://www.hud.gov/hmless.html
    
    
  • HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, COMMUNITIES and SHELTERS for the
    CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE - The Garden
    http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html#HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
    • Overview of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and its relationship to housing
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/mcsoverview.html

    • Safer Travel Directory
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/safertravel.html

    • WEB SITES PERTAINING TO HOUSING AND MCS (a resource list)
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html
      
      
  • Housing For People with Disabilities
    by Paul Cannaday
    
    http://members.aol.com/allhumans/Articles/Article6.html
    
    
    
  • Housing for the MCS/EI
    http://www.citlink.net/~bhima/housing.htm

  • Housing Surveys
    
    • ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH GROUP RELEASES HOUSING SURVEY RESULTS
      HOMELESSNESS AT CRITICAL LEVEL FOR WESTERN MASS. CHEMICALLY INJURED
      Contact: Sharon Wachsler, EHCWM Housing Committee
      413-625-9820 or SWachsler@aol.com
      http://www.herc.org/hhc/ComingClean.htm

    • Unmet Housing Needs: Survery of 100 People With EI/MCS By Susan Molloy, M.A.; 1993
      Coming soon to EHN's site
      
      
  • HUD Homes: FAQs
    
    http://www.edlw.com/hud/hudsd/frequent-sd.htm
    
    
    • Fair housing outreach and assisted housing counseling
      http://www.hud.gov/nofa/suprnofa/sprprt4d.html
      
      
    • Housing Counseling Clearinghouse (HCC), established by HUD
      http://www.hudhcc.org/
      
      
    • Housing in Dolan Springs, Arizona
      An MCS/EI Environmental Perspective
      http://www.citlink.net/~bhima/housing.htm

    • The Natural Place - Environmental Residence and Hotel
      For People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) Located in Florida. -- barb
      http://www.thenaturalplace.com/

    • "Persons with Environmental Illness or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
      The Twin Cities Human Ecology Action League (HEAL) chapter is planning to develop
      affordable, non-toxic housing for lower income people with El/MCS. HEAL is working
      toward increased awareness of the disease, new legislation for indoor air quality,
      increased research on the cause, effects and treatment, toxic housing remedies,
      development of new non-toxic housing, and a registry of such housing for use by those
      with El/MCS. "
      http://www.hud.gov/cpes/mn/stpaulmn.html
      
      
    • section 8 tenant-based assistance for persons with disabilities
      http://www.hud.gov/nofa/sec8/sec8nofa.html
    
    
    
  • Immune Web Classifieds - Housing
    Cyndi Norman's site brings you
    Free Classified Ads for the Immune Community
    -- Submit your own classified ad --
    Places to rent, to buy; places for rent, for sale. -- barb
    http://www.immuneweb.org/classifieds/housing.html

  • Intentional Communities
    "Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land
    trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related
    projects and dreams... "
    
    http://www.ic.org/
    
    
    • Communities Directory 2000
      http://directory.ic.org/
      
      
    • Housing
      http://www.ic.org/resources.html#hous
      
      
    • Living Village
      http://www.ic.org/fic/cdir/res/LivingVillage.html

      Found through Wayback Machine . . .
      http://web.archive.org/web/19991104051542/www.ic.org/index.html

    
    
  • Kentuky - Safer Housing For The Chemically Sensitive To Be Built
    http://mcstravel.resourcez.com/

  • Living Earth EcoVillage in Lexington, Virginia http://www.livingearthecovillage.com/

  • MCS Housing Resources
    For people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Environmental Illness / Chemical Injury
    http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/
    
    
    • Housing Developments, Communities and Shelters for the Chemically Sensitive
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html
      
      
    • MCS Housing -- Connecting the Real Estate Community and people with MCS
      http://216.91.94.50/neighbornets/mcs/mcshousing.nsf/
      
      
    • Places to Live
      http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html#PLACES TO LIVE

    
    MCS Housing - The Safer Travel Directory
    http://members.tripod.com/cparkh1001/escalante.htm

  • Meadowdance Community Group
    http://www.meadowdance.org/
    
    
  • National Fair Housing Advocate Online
    http://www.fairhousing.com/
    
    
    • Disability and Housing Discrimination Pocket Guide
      by the Metropolitan Strategy Group
      http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/general_resources/ACCESS.HTM
      
      
    • Fair housing agency near you? Try the agency finder
      http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/finder/
      
      
      California
      http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/finder/california.htm
      
      
      
    • History of Insurance Redlining
      Sarah Pratt's Presentation at the John Marshall Law School
      Conference on Mortgage and Insurance Discrimination
      http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/general_resources/insurance_redlining.htm

    
    
  • The Natural Place
    Environmental Residence And Hotel
    "For People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)
    "Individual apartments designed for
    health-conscious visitors, the environmentally ill (ei), and people with multiple
    chemical sensitivity (msc) looking for an environment that is free of...
    
    Smoke
    Pets
    Pesticides
    Scented products
    Chemicals
    http://www.thenaturalplace.com/

  • Places to Live -- MCS
    http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html#PLACES TO LIVE
    
    
  • Quail Haven - MCS Housing
    http://madelinx.tripod.com/quailhaven/

  • REALWOOD, a green contractor, is designing an MCS-safe house and is looking for
    someone who wants to have one built. We also do consultations, remodels and furniture.
    Call Real Lapalme at 510.540.1255. See RealWood website
    http://www.realwood.net/

  • Safe Haven Community Housing
    This is a start-up project. December 2001. -- barb
    Environmentally Safer Housing
    
    "We plan to develop duplexes and/or individual home sites
    for sale and/or rent in the future." 8440 SW Canyon Drive
    Portland, Oregon 97225
    judiths@teleport.com
    http://www.geocities.com/safehavencommunity/

  • WEB SITES PERTAINING TO HOUSING AND MCS
    This is an extensive resource page. -- barb
    http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/resources.html

• Safer Housing For The Chemically Sensitive To Be Built In KY
  http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/saferhous.htm

• St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  Office of Community Planning and Development
  http://www.hud.gov/cpes/mn/stpaulmn.html
  
  
• Snowflake, Arizona
  http://www.wmonline.com/cities/snowfpro.htm

• Toxic releases in/near the neighborhood?
  
  
  • e-risk.com
    http://www.e-risk.com
    
    
  • Environmental Defense's Scorecard
    http://www.scorecard.org
    
    
  • NearMyHome.com
    http://www.nearmyhome.com
    
    
    
• Tri-County Apartment Association Website
  • Fair Housing Information
    http://hercules.infomega.com/tcaa/docs/industry/fairhousing.htm
  • Renters' Resources
    http://www.tcaa.org/resources/index.htm
  
  
  
• US Green Building Council (USGBC)
  http://www.usgbc.org/
  
  
• Vermont - Healthy Homes -
  http://www.healthy-homes.com/index.html
  
  
  • Healing MCS
    http://www.healthy-homes.com/healing.htm
    
    
• WeOwn.Net
  If you are looking for information about Housing Cooperatives or
  any other type of affordable, resident controlled multi-family housing ...
  http://www.WeOwn.net/
  
  
  • Housing for People With Disabilities
    http://www.WeOwn.net/housing.htm
  
  
  

The Safe Notification and Information For Fragrances act will be given assigned
a new number when it is re-introduced in the 108th Congress which convenes, 01/03.

Safe Notification and Information For Fragrances act
Introduced by Rep Jan Schakowsky (D IL) and co-sponsored by
Rep Shelley Berkley (D NV) and Rep Chaka Fattah (D PA).
"To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to
require that fragrances containing known toxic substances
or allergens be labeled accordingly. "

NOTE: Clicking on the URL below will take you to Thomas Legislative Information
on the Internet. Enter hr 1947 in the box, "By Bill Number and click the search button. -- barb
http://thomas.loc.gov

Huber Research
http://www.huber-research.com/

Hudson Institute - Thinking the Unthinkable - Impacting Lives
http://www.hudson.org/

Hudson River Story
http://www.clearwater.org/pcbs/index.html

Huffing and fragrance chemical abuse

• Acute asthma - acute tachycardia - anaphylactic reactions caused by Fragrance & Perfume
  In January of 1995 11 young Algerians deceased, ...
  http://www.tox-doc.com/englisch/duft.htm
  
  
• Anderson Laboratories
  Video on Huffing
  http://www.andersonlaboratories.com/alweb23.htm

• Dr. Bob Health Report
  West Virginia Health Page
  http://www.wvhealth.wvu.edu/DrBob/huffing.htm
  
  OR . . . http://web.archive.org/web/20020213035500/http://www.wvhealth.wvu.edu/DrBob/huffing.htm

  http://www.suntimes.co.za/1998/11/08/news/news13.htm

• British boydied from using too much deodorant, coroner says
  By Associated Press - Catalyst
  http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/92/catalyst/edition11/22_3_m.html

• Dr. Greene - The dangers of inhaled aerosols or "huffing."
  http://www.drgreene.com/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=502
  
  OR http://web.archive.org/web/20020207053842/http://www.drgreene.com/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=502

• Huffing -- News 5, Syracuse
  http://www.wtvh.com/promo/huff.html
  
  OR: http://web.archive.org/web/20000902231723/http://www.wtvh.com/promo/huff.html

• 'Huffing' could be taking place right under your nose
  Air Force News
  http://www.af.mil/news/Aug1997/n19970821_971045.html
  
  
• JoinTogether Online
  
  • Inhalant Abuse
    http://www.jointogether.org/sa/issues/hot_issues/inhalants/

  • Parents, Teachers Can Prevent Abuse of Inhalants, Poisons - 3/12/2002
    http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/features/reader/0,1854,549028,00.html

  • U.S. Warns Against 'Huffing' - 3/20/2001 http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,266449,00.html

  Thomas Michael Jones Memorial Page
  http://www.tommyjones.org/
  • The case against inhalants
    "...AEROSOL DEODORANT KILLS BOY OBSESSED WITH SMELLING NICE MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy obsessed with smelling nice died
    after months of repeatedly spraying his entire body with deodorant, a coroner ruled
    Wednesday. Jonathan Capewell had 10 times the lethal dosage of propane and butane
    in his blood when he suffered a heart attack and died July 29, coroner Barrie Williams
    said. "His personal hygiene led him to use more than was normal in a confined space,
    which limits ventilation," said the coroner, who recorded the death as accidental.
    Jonathan's father, Keith Capewell, said his son would cover his entire body with
    deodorant at least twice a day. "When we told him he was using too much, he said he
    just wanted to smell good," Capewell said. "Even when we were in a room downstairs
    we couldn't just smell it, we could taste it," the father said. "You wouldn't have thought
    that could have been the cause for someone to die. What a price to pay for smelling nice."
    Sue Rogers of the British Aerosol Manufacturing Association said she had never
    heard of a similar incident. "It is extraordinarily unusual and terribly tragic," she said.
    "The aerosols have warnings about spraying in confined areas and well-ventilated places,
    but these are for flammability risks, not about accidental inhalation." The boy's
    mother, Louise, called for better warnings on deodorant cans."You just get up in the
    morning and spray it on, but who expects it to kill you?" she said. - --- ..."
    http://www.tommyjones.org/allaboutdrugs/inhalants.htm

• National Inhalent Prevention Coalition
  http://www.inhalants.com/

• This section introduces psychology's approach to consciousness by noting the
  elusiveness of its definition and the consequent difficulty of investigating it.
  " ... People in various cultures sniff, snort, smoke, and/or swallow substances like fungus,
  nutmeg, morning glory seeds, glue, oven spray, Sterno, Aqua Velva, and gasoline. ..."
  This files saves as rich text format, so you can open w/word processing program. -- barb
  http://www.opentextproject.org/content/files/Psychology/PetersonChap06.rtf

• Volatile substance abuse
  http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/bulletin/bulletin_1994-01-01_2_page007.html

  Volatile substance abuse throughout the world
  " It is said the substances most commonly used by sniffers in Brazil were ålanÁa-perfume¼
  (a mixture of chloroform and diethyl ether), acetone, petrol, finger-nail polish, and glue."
  http://vsa.educari.com/aroundTheWorld/

http://www.innerbody.com/indexbody.html

http://members.aol.com/healnatnl/index.html

• doubletwist.com
  http://doubletwist.com/

• Absolute Humor
  
  http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mist/Humour/
  
  
  
• AD Busters
  
  http://www.adbusters.org/main/index.html

• Barbie Dolls for the holidays (author unkown)
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/Barbies.htm
  
  • MCS Barbie by barb wilkie
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/MCSBarbe.htm
    
    
  • Dr. Barbie
    By Doctor Bernard
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/DrBarbe.htm

  • MCS Barbie's Brother Bob
    
    • [NOT funny] Bob's eye following basal cell carcinoma removal
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/MCSBreye.htm
      
      
    • Bob's Enhanced, Homemade Rocks
      http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/bobrocks.htm
  
  
  
• California Highway Patrol
  
  http://www.maxpages.com/jokemania/Highway_Patrol_Jokes
• Cats
  
  • Pill the cat
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/catpill.htm
    
    
  • Cat Commandments
    http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/catcomnd.htm

• Clones R Us
  
  http://www.d-b.net/dti/intro.html
  
  http://www.d-b.net/dti/plist.html
  
  http://www.d-b.net/dti/about.html
  
  
• Dilbert
  http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
  
• Emotions Online
  http://wwws.enterprise.net/fortknox/emoticon/smiley.html
  
• English is a Crazy Language
  
  http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/w/c/wchuang/www/humor/college/English_is_Crazy.html
  
  
• Holistic Healing Humor
  
  http://www.holisticmed.com/humor/humor.html
  
  vHumor Archives
  
  http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/humor.html
  
  Jest for the Health of It!
  
  http://www.JestHealth.com
  
  The Joke Board
  
  http://www.stumps.org/stumps/wwwboard.html
  
  
  • stumps R us
    "A Whimsical Support Group of Cheerful Cripples
    Who Can Answer almost ANY question you might have about life
    without one, two or three limbs"
    
    http://www.stumps.org/
  
  
  Barb -- Here¼s a joke a friend sent last week. I immediately thought of you
  knowing how much you despise the mammogram.
  Betty
  "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
  ... Mahatma Gandhi
  
  Maybe after reading this, you all will start looking into thermography as a safer alternative to
  mammograms. For more iformation on mammograms, please visit the website of Dr. Samuel Epstein
  professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois
  School of Public Health, and Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. -- barb
  Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Chairman,
  Cancer Prevention Coalition
  http://www.preventcancer.com/about/epstein.htm

  Dangers of Mammography
  http://www.preventcancer.com/patients/mammography/dangers.htm
  
  
  GO GET YOUR MAMMIES GRAMMED
  For years and years they told me,
  Be careful of your breasts.
  Don't ever squeeze or bruise them.
  And give them monthly tests.
  
  So I heeded all their warnings,
  And protected them by law.
  Guarded them very carefully,
  And I always wore my bra.
  
  After 30 years of astute care,
  My gyno, Dr Pruitt,
  Said I should get a Mammogram
  "OK," I said, "let's do it."
  "Stand up here real close" she said,
  (She got my boob in line),
  "And tell me when it hurts," she said,
  "Ah yes! Right there, that's fine."
  
  She stepped upon a pedal,
  I could not believe my eyes!
  A plastic plate came slamming down,
  My hooter's in a vise!
  
  My skin was stretched and mangled,
  From underneath my chin.
  My poor boob was being squashed,
  To Swedish Pancake thin.
  
  Excruciating pain I felt,
  Within it's viselike grip.
  A prisoner in this vicious thing,
  My poor defenseless tit!
  "Take a deep breath" she said to me,
  Who does she think she's kidding?!?
  My chest is mashed in her machine,
  And woozy I am getting.
  
  "There, that's good," I heard her say,
  (The room was slowly swaying.)
  "Now, let's have a go at the other one."
  Have mercy, I was praying.
  
  It squeezed me from both up and down,
  It squeezed me from both sides.
  I'll bet SHE'S never had this done,
  To HER tender little hide.
  
  Next time that they make me do this,
  I will request a blindfold.
  I have no wish to see again,
  My knockers getting steam rolled.
  
  If I had no problem when I came in,
  I surely have one now.
  If there had been a cyst in there,
  It would have gone "ker-pow!"
  
  This machine was created by a man,
  Of this, I have no doubt.
  I'd like to stick his balls in there,
  And, see how THEY come out!
  
  Author unkown to me. Came in via email. ###
  
  It's no joke, Betty is right when she wrote that I despise mammograms. I have never had one
  and will look into sonograms or thermorgraphy, if I feel the need. Otherwise it is the digital
  (fingers) breast exam for me and no radiation . . . which is known to cause cancer. For more info,
  do visit EHN's section on Mammography. -- barb
  http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/m.htm#Mammogram

  
  

• No Exit
  
  http://www.andysinger.com/index.html
  
  
• Pentium jokes
  
  • Humor Space
    http://www.humorspace.com/humor/jokes/jpentium.htm

  • intel outside
    Pentium Related Jokes http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/ed.morris/intel/pentium.html

  • THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG
    http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~cbauman1/pentium.html
    
    
  • Recently heard
    http://hci.stanford.edu/cousins/pentium.html
    
    
  • Some Pentium Jokes!
    http://ozone.ess.sunysb.edu/docs/Pentium.html

• Personality Test
  
  http://www.ullazang.com/personality.html
  
  
  
• Quoteland: Humor
  
  http://www.quoteland.com/quotes/leisure/
  
  
  • Simeon's World of Magic!
    http://www.simeonmagic.com/
    
    
  • Stupid Quotes
    http://www.quoteland.com/quotes/leisure/stupid.html
  
  
  
• The Ultimate Fruitcake Recipe
  http://www.snopes2.com/holidays/xmas/fruitcke.htm

• Sharon Wachsler
  
  • Sick Humor
    http://www.sickhumorpostcards.com/index.html

    If you wish to see more (serious) work by Sharon, visit EHN's General Links, page W
    http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/w.htm

• The W.C. ... The joke that had Jack Paar walking off over a censorship battle with NBC in 1960. -- barb
  http://jewel.morgan.edu/~salimian/humor/humor_179.html
  • PARR, JACK
    U.S. Talk-Show Host
    http://www.mbcnet.org/ETV/P/htmlP/paarjack/paarjack.htm

  • Water Closet Classic
    http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_may2005/Water_Closet.htm
    [This is THE joke that caused Jack Paar to walk off The Tonight Show on
    February 10, 1960 - one of the early classic moments in television censorship (pre-
    Johnny Carson, and post-Steve Allen). He came back a few days later, only after many
    meetings with the NBC honchos. The censor had barred him from telling that joke,
    and he was incensed. As I recall, they never did let him tell it, but somehow talked
    him into coming back to the show...]
    
    And my own recolection is that the joke appeared in our local paper, thanks to Herb Caen.
    I laughed my young self silly. Sent it to my dad, who shared with all his patients. My mom could
    hear the gales of laughter -- my dad always laughing heartily with his patients as if it were his
    first time through the tale. (We lived in a four-family flat, with dad's office downstairs and our
    home upstairs of one side of the building.)

    An English lady, while visiting Switzerland, was looking for a room, and she asked the
    schoolmaster if he could recommend any to her. He took her to see several rooms, and
    when everything was settled, the lady returned to her home to make the final
    preparations to move. When she arrived home, the thought suddenly occurred to her
    that she had not seen a "W.C." [water closet - a euphemism for bathroom] around the
    place. So she immediately wrote a note to the schoolmaster asking him if there were a
    "W.C." around.
    
    The schoolmaster was a very poor student of English, so he asked the parish priest if he
    could help in the matter. Together they tried to discover the meaning of the letters
    "W.C." and the only solution they could find for the letters was for "Wayside Chapel".
    The schoolmaster then wrote to the English lady the following note:
    
    

    Ý Dear Madam:
    
    I take great pleasure in informing you that the W.C. is situated nine miles from the
    house you occupy, in the center of a beautiful grove of pine trees surrounded by lovely
    grounds. It is capable of holding 229 people and it is open on Sunday and Thursday
    only. As there are a great number of people and they are expected during the summer
    months, I would suggest that you come early: although there is plenty of standing room
    as a rule. You will no doubt be glad to hear that a good number of people bring their
    lunch and make a day of it. While others who can afford to go by car arrive just in time.

    I would especially recommend that your ladyship go on Thursday when there is a musical
    accompaniment. It may interest you to know that my daughter was married in the
    W.C. and it was there that she met her husband. I can remember the rush there was
    for seats. There were ten people to a seat ordinarily occupied by one. It was wonderful to
    see the expression on their faces. The newest attraction is a bell donated by a wealthy
    resident of the district. It rings every time a person enters. A bazaar is to be held to
    provide plush seats for all the people, since they feel it is a long felt need. My wife is
    rather delicate, so she can't attend regularly. I shall be delighted to reserve the best seat
    for you if you wish, where you will be seen by all. For the children, there is a special
    time and place so that they will not disturb the elders. Hoping to have been of
    service to you, I remain,
    
    Sincerely,
    The Schoolmaster.
    
    

• Some of Stephen Wright's lines
  http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/humor/sw.htm
  
  
• Steven Wright Quotes
  http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_dec2004/Wright_Quotes.htm

  
  
  -- end humor --
  

The Hunger Site
http://www.thehungersite.com/

Hydrogen Peroxide

• AAA Wellness Today - HOME USES OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ‚ H2O2
  http://www.wellnesstoday.com/october/cancer.htm

http://www.dldewey.com/hydroil.htm

Hygenaire -- safer products, consulting
800-432-2719
Products Designed By & For People with Severe Allergies
http://www.hygenaire.com
or
http://www.hygenaire.com/hybrochure.html

Hyperberic Oxygen Treatment
Not listed as a healer for Acute Renal Failure, nor Chronic Renal Failure, but I'm trying it nonetheless. -- barb

• HBOT Online
  " ..... HBOT Online is a service designed to provide you with a central source of
  information about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy; a foundation therapy for acute and
  chronic wounds of all types......we want your news and stories for HBOT Online...contact
  us at hbotonline@hbot.com..... "
  http://www.hbot.com/

• HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY RESOURCES
  http://www.netnet.net/mums/HBO.htm

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center of Marin
  Dr. Todd S. Kaufmann Clinical Director
      21 Tamal Vista Blvd., Ste 210
      Corte Madera, CA 94925
      (800) 635-4334
      (415) 927-0749
      (415) 924-6478 fax
  
  And in Sonoma County . . .
      2454 West Third Street
      Santa Rosa, CA 95401
      (707) 541-0749
      (888) 655-5757
  http://hyperbaric02therapy.com/index.htm

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy, and Stroke
  This note is not as promising as I'd like, but that qualifier, DO NOT ALWAYS, gives me some hope.
  "... The principle that redirecting flow toward ischemic areas can help damaged tissue
  recover is well established in cardiology. However, in critical care generally, drugs and
  maneuvers that redirect flow to ischemic organs (e.g., brain and kidney) do not always
  improve recovery at the cellular level. For this reason, improved blood flow must be
  linked to other measures of cellular and organ recovery. ..."
  http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/hypoxsum.htm

• Rapid Recovery Hyperbarics: Research References
  http://www.hbot4u.com/renallisting.html
  • "How does HBOT force more Oxygen into the bloodstream and tissues?"
    http://www.hbot4u.com/whatishbot.html

• Richmond Hyperbaric Health Center
  Unit #4 - 12180, Horseshoe Way, Richmond, B.C. Canada V7A 4V5
  Tel: (604) 277-8608Ý Fax: (604) 277-8628Ý
  Toll Free: 1-888-373-0888
  Now here are some encouraging words and I thank the author for sharing her kidney experiences!
  "... Over the next 10 years, with a vegetarian diet, and lifestyle change, I was able to
  forestall dialysis until the age of 45. I firmly believe, that had I known about HBOT
  (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy), I would not probably even need dialysis now and that the
  possibility of renal function recovery could have occurred at the onset of discovery of
  this current condition, that of kidney disease. For I know of individuals who, with the
  levels of creatinine (level of toxin in the body) that I have hadÝ (about 300), have
  experienced return of function in their kidneys. ... "
  http://www.richmond-hyperbaric.com/case_studies_Kidney%20disease.html
  • Other Research Studies Ý
    http://www.richmond-hyperbaric.com/RHHC.studies.htm

  
  
• San Francisco Preventive Medical Group's Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
  Dr. Joel Lopez is my doctor. It could be argued that he's saved or extended my life by telling me
  about fish peptides to lower blood pressure, rather than taking the prescribed blood pressure
  medicine that further damages kidneys.-- barb
     345 West Portal Ave
     San Francisco CA 94127
     415 566-1000
     Fax 415 665-6732
  http://www.sfpmg.com/hyperbaric-oxygen.html

• Lab Tests Online
  http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/hypertension.html

• Baby Ills from Beauty Aids?
  Cynthia Washam / Environmental Health Perspectives v.109, n.5, May01
  http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Beauty-Aids-Baby-Ills.htm

• Earth Crash - Earth Spirit
  Healing ourselves and a dying planet
  Documenting the Collapse of a Dying Planet
  Pollution: Hormone Disrupters
  http://eces.org/ec/pollution/hormonedisrupters.shtml

• Health Effects of Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) - Effects in Laboratory Animals
  Environmental Working Group
  http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/beautysecrets/presskit/healtheffects.html

• Hypospadias
  http://ibis-birthdefects.org/start/hypospad.htm

• Hypospadias -- What Every Parent Should Know
  TERRY W. HENSLE, M.D.; STEVEN Y. TENNENBAUM, M.D.; ELIZABETH A. REILEY, M.D.
  Babies & Children¼s Hospital
  Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
  New York, NY 10032
  (212) 305-8510
  (212) 305-4421 fax
  http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/urology/pediatric/hypospadias.html

• Hypospadias and Endocrine Disruption: Is There a Connection?
  Laurence S. Baskin,1 Katherine Himes,2 and Theo Colborn3
  1Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA;
  2Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Wildlife and
  Contaminants Program, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C., USA
  
  "Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital anomalies in the United States;
  it occurs in approximately 1 in 250 newborns or roughly 1 in 125 live male births (1,2).
  Hypospadias can be defined as an arrest in normal development of the urethral, foreskin,
  and ventral aspect of the penis. This results in a wide range of abnormalities, with the
  urethral opening being anywhere along the shaft of the penis, within the scrotum,
  or even in the perineum (3). The more severe forms of hypospadias are associated with
  penile curvature. Left uncorrected, patients with severe hypospadias may need to sit
  down to void and tend to shun intimate relationships because of the fears related to
  abnormal sexuality. Babies born with severe hypospadias and penile curvature may
  have "ambiguous genitalia" in the newborn period, making an immediate accurate
  sex assignment difficult. ... "
  Abstract: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/109p1175-1183baskin/abstract.html

  Full article for members: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/members/2001/109p1175-1183baskin/baskin-full.html

• International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems (ICBDMS)
  and National Birth Defects Prevention Network will be organising the NBDPN/
  ICBDMS Collaborative Meeting
  http://www.icbd.org/symposium.htm

• The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  Current Research
  One wonders when they are going to pay closer attention to the toxic chemical brews
  known innocuously as "fragrance"? -- barb
  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/despr/EPIRSH.HTM

• National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals - Phthalates
  CDC National Center for Environmental Health ; 21mar01
  " This is one section of four including Metals, Tobacco Smoke,
  Organophosphate Pesticides, and Phthalates "
  http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Environmental-Chemicals-CDC-21mar01.htm

  Our Stolen Future
  Male Reproductive Disorders
  http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/reproduction/testes.htm

• P&S Medical Review: August 1996, Vol.3, No.2 True Hermaphroditism: Considerations in the Management of
  Patients Presenting in Early and Adult Life
  http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/news/review/archives/medrev_v3n2_0002.html