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Edited on Thu Apr-07-05 01:54 PM by blm
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cancer conference today
The Cancer Institute at UPMC Shadyside will host a conference on the impact of environmental contaminants on human health today through Saturday. Doctors, scientists and public health officials will discuss the effect of mercury emissions on children, environmental factors involved in breast cancer and safer energy sources for hospitals.
Organizers said the event will kick off today at 7 p.m. with a keynote address by Teresa Heinz Kerry, who heads an environmental health initiative on behalf of the Howard Heinz Endowment. The conference will honor Herbert Needleman, the University of Pittsburgh doctor who initiated research on the effects of lead poisoning on children's behavior in the 1970s.
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Thanks for keeping your neck out there for all of us, Teresa.
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