Place: Thomastown Kilcullen Co

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Health monitor call for ‘red zone’ residents

FOLLOWING the disclosure that hazardous waste at Haulbowline in Cork harbour has not been disposed of in accordance with accepted safety procedures, the Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association again calls for baseline biomonitoring of populations living in sites adjacent to landfill and industrial facilities.

Have your say on the water directive

Registers would help trace origins of diseases

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Eat organic and don’t put your health at the mercy of pesticide farming

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Cautionary approach to mobile phone health

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Keep phone masts out of residential areas

We must act on threat from phones and masts

THE Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association supports the views of those who are concerned at the possible adverse health impact of radiation from mobile phones and masts.

Wed, 02 Feb, 2005

GM foods should be banned, say doctors

THE Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association does not agree with the recent assertion by Prof David McConnell that we need GM foods for the 800 million starving people in the world.

Fri, 24 Dec, 2004

Doctors seek survey of chemical ill effects

THE Irish Doctors' Environmental Association is disappointed to note that the Department of Health has no plans to undertake an assessment of the burden of environmental chemicals on the human body, such as carried out by the US Centre for Disease Control.

Fri, 01 Oct, 2004