Stanford Researchers Challenge Value of Widely Used Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Methods (1/31/02, EurekAlert)

Flame Retardant Chemical Found in Fish, Humans (1/31/02, Environment News Service)

U.S. Secretary of Energy Previews New Accelerated Cleanup Plan for Former Cold War Nuclear Weapon Production Sites (1/31/02, DOE)

Action Plan of the Government of Canada in Response to the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel Report Elements of Precaution: Recommendations for the Regulation of Food Biotechnology in Canada (1/31/02, Health Canada)

World Health Organization and Top Publishers Today Launch "Access to Research" Internet Initiative for Developing Countries (1/31/02, WHO)

U.S. President's Budget To Provide $131 Million Increase in Funding To Protect Agriculture and the Nation's Food Supply (1/31/02, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Depression Raises Heart Failure Rate in Elderly Women (1/31/02, EurekAlert)

West Nile Virus Heading Toward Texas (1/31/02, EurekAlert)

Simple Stove Hoods Slash Indoor Pollution (1/31/02, New Scientist)

Cornell Educators Turn High-schoolers into Scientific Sleuths with Lessons That Focus on Hometown Toxic Issues (1/30/02, Cornell University)

University of Utah To Monitor Olympic Earthquakes - Thanks to U.S. Geological Survey (1/30/02, USGS)

Poor Indoor Lighting May Encourage Binge-eating, Study Finds (1/30/02, University of California, Irvine)

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Publishes List of November 2001 Recalls (1/30/02, NHTSA)

Cracking Down on Illegal Aliens (1/30/02, Hudson Institute)

A New Theory on Aging, Living Long, and Dying (1/29/02, University of Chicago Social Science Research Computing)

Speaking in New York at a Preparatory Meeting to the Johannesburg World Summit - Jacques Diouf Underlines the Important Potential of Agriculture to Sustainable Development (1/29/02, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization)

Wilshire Associates Launches iQuantum - Institutional-Level Analysis Now Available to Financial Advisors (1/29/02, PR Newswire)

Ozone Tested as Anti-anthrax Weapon (1/28/02, New Scientist)

The Great Dying - 250 Million Years Ago Something Unknown Wiped Out Most Life on Our Planet (1/28/02, NASA Science News)

To Improve Health and Boost Economic Development, Countries Strive for Better Food Safety - Lessons Learned Shared at Global Forum (1/28/02, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization)

European Union Standing Veterinary Committee Agrees on Suspension of Imports of Products of Animal Origin from China (1/28/02, European Union)

Zoologic Joins Forces with Fathom; Zoologic and Fathom To Target Associations and Professional Retail Clients with Online Finance Courses (1/28/02, PR Newswire)

Bloomberg and Algorithmics Deliver Pre-integrated Front-end Trade Capture and Risk Management System (1/28/02, PR Newswire)

Harvard School of Public Health Faculty Votes Not To Accept Funds from Tobacco Companies and Subsidiaries (1/25/02, HSPH)

Toxic Waste Landfills Pose Birth Defect Risks (1/25/02, Environment News Service)

National Science Foundation Director Rita Colwell Discusses Water Safety (1/25/02, National Academy of Sciences); provides link to listen to the lecture

U.S. Ecosystems Altered by Nitrogen Pollution (1/25/02, Environment News Service)

Bioterror Funding Provides Blueprint To Build a Strong New Public Health Infrastructure (1/25/02, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Drinking Alcohol Increases Risk for Breast Cancer - Diet Is Not a Major Risk Factor (1/25/02, American Cancer Society)

Hormone in Birth Control Pills Cut Risk of Ovarian Cancer (1/25/02, American Cancer Society)

No Association Between Fertility Drugs and Ovarian Cancer, Say University of Pittsburgh Researchers (1/25/02, UPMC)

Department of Veterans Affairs Compensates More Veterans Exposed to Radiation (1/25/02, VA)

Morningstar Creates Risk Analyzer Tool To Help Investors Assess Overall Portfolio Risk (1/25/02, PR Newswire)

Energy Department Welcomes Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Report: "No Individual Technical or Scientific Factor" Eliminates Yucca Mountain (1/24/02, U.S. DOE)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration Reopens Tuberculosis Rulemaking Record - Limited Reopening Will Focus on Final Risk Assessment (1/24/02, OSHA)

Food Controls - European Union Inspectors Find National Controls on E. coli Vary Between EU Countries (1/24/02, European Union)

European Commission's Scientific Steering Committee Publishes New Opinions on BSE-related Issues (1/24/02, European Union)

Frequently Asked Questions on the European Commission's Proposal on Environmental Liability (1/24/02, European Union)

University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Offers Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Using Selenium and Vitamin E (1/24/02, UPHS)

United States Reverses Weapons Plutonium Policy (1/24/02, New Scientist)

Europe Reverses Position To Support Genetic Engineering (1/24/02, Environment News Service)

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Announces Administration Plan To Proceed with Plutonium Disposition and Reduce Proliferation Concerns (1/23/02, DOE); also see statement of John Gordon, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and Under Secretary of Energy

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Proposes Probability Limits for Excluding Unlikely Events from Consideration at Potential Waste Repository (1/23/02, NRC)

Barcelona European Council: European Commission Launches Proposal for Comprehensive Biotechnology Policy (1/23/02, European Union)

Identity Theft Heads the Federal Trade Commission's Top 10 Consumer Fraud Complaints of 2001 (1/23/02, FTC)

Consumer Federation of America Study Finds Fewer Terror Insurance Problems, Lower Losses Than Predicted - Congress Urged To Go Slow on Back-Up Legislation [PDF file] (1/23/02, CFA)

Risky Business: Do Media Help or Hinder Consumers’ Assessment of Health Risks? (1/22/02, National Consumers League)

Breastfeeding Cuts Mother's Risk of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk Is Increased for Women Who Drink More Than Average Amounts of Alcohol If Their Dietary Folate Intake Is Low (1/22/02, Breast Cancer Care and Research Fund)

Mercury Interactive Unveils Application Risk Management Model To Maximize IT Efficiency and Increase Application Quality (1/22/02, Mercury Interactive)

RiskWatch® Launches HIPAA-Watch Software for Healthcare Industry Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment Tool Automates Healthcare Compliance with Patient Care Regulations (1/22/02, RiskWatch Inc.)

Agricultural Leaders Discuss Challenges of Genetically Modified Crops in the Food System (1/22/02, Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology)

Medicare Now Covers Glaucoma Detection Eye Exam (1/22/02, National Institutes of Health)

Vitamin C Prevents Cancer by Blocking Hydrogen Peroxide, but Apple Chemical Works Even Better, Cornell and Korean Scientists Report (1/22/02, Cornell University)

Outcome of the European Union Agriculture Council of January 2002 (1/22/02, European Union)

Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Urges Congress To Allow National Highway Traffic Safety Administration To Address Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards Through Administrative Procedure Act Rulemaking (1/22/02, CRE)

Study Finds Massachusetts Drinking Water Contains Higher Levels of Chemical By-Products from Disinfection than Previous U.S. Reports (1/22/02, Harvard School of Public Health)

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System Partners with Air Force Medical Service in $8.5 Million Telemedicine Initiative (1/22/02, UPMC)

European Food Safety Authority Adopted - Council of Agriculture Ministers Agrees Key Legislation Putting a New European-wide Food Safety System in Place (1/21/02, European Union)

New Guidelines Will Reduce Hazards Posed by Plastic Wastes (1/21/02, United Nations Environment Programme)

Chemicals, Strengthening UNEP, and Modernising the World's Environmental Machinery Key Issues at Global Environment Talks (1/21/02, United Nations Environment Programme)

Cigital's Secure Software Vision Reinforced by Microsoft's New "Trustworthy Computing" Mandate (1/21/02, Cigital, Inc.)

Draft Perchlorate Risk Assessment Released for Review; Peer Review Meeting Scheduled (1/18/02, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Monitoring of Radioactivity in Nevada Groundwater Flawed (1/18/02, Environment News Service)

U.S. Policy-makers Should Ban Human Reproductive Cloning (1/18/02, National Academy of Sciences); also see NAS president's introductory remarks and Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning Panel members' opening statements

Landmark Lead Paint Settlement Protects 130,000 Apartments (1/18/02, Environment News Service)

Some Foods May Cause Reactions in Latex Sensitive Individuals (1/17/02, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Urges Home Testing for Radon, Second Leading Cause of Lung Cancer (1/17/02, EPA)

Sandia Studies Security at Nation’s Chemical Plants (1/17/02, Sandia National Laboratories)

Climate Change May Bring More Winter Floods, and a Drier Growing Season in California (1/17/02, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Foot and Mouth Could Return to United Kingdom (1/17/02, New Scientist)

United Kingdom's Health and Safety Executive Issues Guidance on Planning for Radiation Emergencies (1/17/02, HSE)

Dangerous Substances: European Commission To Refer France to the Court of Justice (1/17/02, European Union)

National Security & Oil: "Dangerous Addiction" Report Outlines Risks of Import Dependence, Offers Roadmap To Save 5 Million Barrels Per Day (1/16/02, Union of Concerned Scientists)

Consumer Federation of America's Carol Tucker Foreman: Bush Administration To Lower Public Health Standards for Poultry (1/16/02, CFA.)

U.S. Pressures Europe To Drop GMO Labeling Rules (1/16/02, Environment News Service)

Limiting Methane, Soot Could Quickly Curb Global Warming (1/16/02, Environment News Service)

Largest Ever World Wide Project To Promote Biosafety Launched by United Nations Environment Programme (1/16/02, UNEP)

Health Canada Is Advising Consumers Not To Use Any Products Containing Kava (1/16/02, Health Canada)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Announce Landmark Lead Disclosure Settlement; More Than 130,000 Families in 47 States and D.C. Will Benefit (1/16/02, PR Newswire)

Early Breast Cancer Shares Some Risk Factors with Advanced Breast Cancer, a Study by Yale Researchers Shows (1/16/02, Yale University)

Well Quality: Secret of the Good Oil (1/16/02, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)

Blocking Transmission of Cell-Associated HIV (1/16/02, EurekAlert)

Even Moderately Premature Birth Poses Risk for Developmental Delays (1/15/02, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

U.S. Geological Survey Partners with MapMart.com To Serve Geographic Data (1/15/02, USGS)

U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission Offers Tips To Prevent Home Fires Caused by Space Heaters -- Devices Associated with 21,800 Fires and 300 Deaths Annually (1/15/02, CPSC)

Environmental Organizations Call for Decisive Position on Future European Union Environment Policies (1/15/02, European Environmental Bureau)

World Health Organization To Push for $66 Billion Investment in Health (1/14/02, WHO)

Canadian Company Will Sue To Prove Hemp Is Not Pot (1/14/02, Environment News Service)

Team Studies Use of Sandia Technology To Ensure "Farm-to-Fork" Safety of the Nation’s Food Supply (1/14/02, Sandia National Laboratories)

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Urges Clinicians and Patients To Discuss Aspirin Therapy (1/14/02, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Schedules Three-Day Conference To Discuss Regulatory Issues with Nuclear Industry (1/14/02, NRC)

Researchers Seek Ways To Reduce Children's Injury Risk (1/14/02, EurekAlert)

New Cholesterol Guidelines Not "One Size Fits All" (1/14/02, EurekAlert)

Simple Blood Test in Doctor's Office Could Detect New Cases of Diabetes (1/12/02, Center for the Advancement of Health)

Enlargement and Upgrading Food Controls Are the Challenges Ahead - David Byrne at Green Week 2002 (1/12/02, European Union)

Deals To Prevent Chernobyl-style Disaster Collapse (1/1102, New Scientist)

Euro Changeover Practically Complete (1/11/02, European Union)

Over 40,000 Lives Lost Worldwide Every Year [Aspirin Can Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke] (1/10/02, EurekAlert)

Nevada Outraged: Yucca Mountain OKd for Nuclear Waste (1/10/02, Environment News Service); see previous release

European Environment Agency Draws Key Lessons from History on Using Precaution in Policy-making (1/10/02, EEA)

Researchers Assess Risk of Mad Cow Disease in Sheep (1/10/02, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

New Trial Seeks To Find a SMARTer Way To Treat HIV (1/10/02, PR Newswire)

Using Simulations and Remote Sensing, University at Buffalo Geologists Create High-Tech Hazard Maps To Mitigate Volcanic Risk (1/10/02, UB)

NeoSafety Adds RCRA Training to Existing Suite of OSHA and EPA Related Courses (1/10/02, PR Newswire)

Scientist Bias Helping Cause Mass Extinction (1/10/02, The University of Melbourne)

Fetuses Can Get a Higher Dose of Radiation Than Their Mother If She Is Exposed to Certain Substances at Work, Says UK Health and Safety Executive Research (1/9/02, HSE)

vCJD Deaths Will Rise If UK Sheep Have BSE (1/9/02, New Scientist)

Vitamin May Protect Against Childhood Cancer - Folate Taken During Pregnancy May Reduce Leukemia Risk (1/9/02, American Cancer Society)

Hidden Danger Found in Flash Animation Software (1/9/02, New Scientist)

USCAR Announces FreedomCAR Research Partnership with U.S. Department of Energy (1/9/02, PR Newswire); also see Energy Secretary Abraham Launches FreedomCAR, Replaces PNGV (1/9/02, U.S. Department of Energy)

Canada Bets on Natural Gas for Clean Stationary Power (1/8/02, Environment News Service)

Kaiser Permanente Research: Exposure to Magnetic Fields Linked to Increased Risk of Miscarriage (1/8/02, PR Newswire)

Immune System Protein Linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (1/8/02, New Scientist)

Close on 3/4 of All Payments by Consumers Now in Euros (1/8/02, European Union)

Teaching Physics First (1/8/02, EurekAlert)

Environmental Support Solutions Releases Refrigerant Compliance Manager™ 2002 Software (1/8/02, Environmental Support Solutions Inc.)

Biopesticide on Tap Against Aflatoxin (1/7/02, USDA Agricultural Research Service)

Nevada Confronts Energy Chief Over Yucca Mountain (1/7/02, Environment News Service)

NACHA Internet Council Launches Projects To Address Risks of Internet Payments (1/7/02, NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association)

Roche Initiates S.M.A.R.T.™, an Enhanced Pregnancy Prevention Program To Prevent Accutane-Exposed Pregnancies (1/7/02, PR Newswire)

"Unprecedented Challenges Face U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Policies," Dr. Henry Kaufman Warns (1/4/02, PR Newswire)

Rear Seatbelt Use Slashes Front Seat Deaths (1/4/02, New Scientist)

Oil Tanker Grounded in Plymouth Sound Conservation Area (1/3/02, Environmental News Service)

Biodiversity May Need Millions of Years To Recover (1/3/02, ENS)

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Speaks in Oxford, England (1/3/02, USDA); transcript includes comments on precautionary principle and risk management

Depression and Anxiety Increase Risk of Fatal Stroke (1/3/02, EurekAlert)

University of Rhode Island Researcher Receives Grant To Demonstrate New Technology for Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste (1/3/02, URI)

University of Pittsburgh Dean Named President-Elect of the Society for Risk Analysis (1/3/02, UPMC Health System)

National Infrastructure Protection Center Advisory Update: "Universal Plug and Play Vulnerabilities" (1/3/02, NIPC); see Dec.20 advisory and earlier updates (Dec. 21 and 22)

Study Explores the Effect of Temperature on Mortality (1/3/02, EurekAlert)

Repeated Human Papillomavirus Infection, a Reliable Predictor of Cervical Cancer Precursor Lesions (1/3/02, EurekAlert)

Research Needed To Improve Health and Ecological Risk Assessments for Ozone (1/2/02, National Center for Environmental Assessment)

Age of Terror: Yale Scholars Publish Book on Implications of September 11 (1/2/02, Yale University)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deploys New Website That Provides Live Broadcasts of Commission Meetings Over the Internet (1/2/02, NRC)

Study Links Selenium and Age to Prostate Cancer Risk (1/2/02, American Cancer Society)

National Space Science Centre To Be the UK Information Centre for Near Earth Objects (1/1/02, NASA Near Earth Objects Program)

Progestin in Oral Contraceptives Associated with Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer (1/1/02, EurekAlert)

Office of Management and Budget Issues Data Quality Guidelines Which Provide the Foundation for a Unified Federal Risk Assessment Program (1/1/02, Center for Regulatory Effectiveness)

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