Archive for the 'SF Bay PSR Speaks' Category

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould Speaks on Nuclear Weapons on KPFA Radio–Listen Here

February 16, 2009

Terra Verde – November 7, 2008 at 1:00pm
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SFPSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Sarah Janssen Cited in Article on Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals

January 8, 2009

Panel: EPA must consider effects of chemical barrage
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Chemicals that interfere with the male hormone system are so common — and so potentially damaging — that the government should stop studying them one by one and consider their combined effect, an expert panel said Thursday.
Phthalates and other hormone-disrupting chemicals pollute the air, [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould To Be Heard On KPFA Radio 94.1 Today, November 7

November 7, 2008

Dr. Gould will appear on KPFA Radio (94.1) 1-1:30 this afternoon (Nov. 7) to discuss the Environmental/Public health impacts of the nuclear weapons complex.

SFPSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Thomas Newman Publishes Book Review In New England Journal Of Medicine

November 6, 2008

From New England Journal Of Medicine 10/23/2008 Issue

Prescription for Survival:
A Doctor’s Journey to End
Nuclear Madness
By Bernard Lown. 436 pp., illustrated. San Francisco,
Berrett–Koehler, 2008. $35. ISBN 978-1-57675-482-5.
In Prescription for Survival, Bernard Lown
tells the remarkable story of how he and Eugene
Chazov, cardiologists whose countries were on
opposite sides of the Cold War, created and nurtured
the organization International Physicians
for [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould and Vice President Dr. Jeff Ritterman To Lecture At UCSF Mini Medical School For The Public

October 22, 2008

Mini Medical School for the Public
FALL 2008
Thursday evenings, October 16 – December 4
7:00 to 8:45 p.m., 513 Parnassus Avenue

For full catalog and details:
www.minimedicalschool.ucsf.edu
Mini Medical School for the Public
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine presents:
October 30
Public Health Impacts of US
Foreign and Military Policy

Robert M. Gould, MD
President, SF-Bay Area
Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility;
Associate Pathologist, San Jose Kaiser
November [...]

SF Bay PSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Sarah Janssen To Speak At Food As Medicine Event Wed. 11-22

October 20, 2008

Food as Medicine: Health and Food Safety
MLF: Bay Gourmet
Location: Ferry Building Port Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor of the Ferry Building
Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program
Cost: $8 Club/CAFF/Slow Food members, $15 non-members
Program Organizer: Cathy Curtis
Also know: In association with the Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF)
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director, Center for [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould To Appear In Iran Documentary; To Speak at Sept. 26th Screening in SF

September 22, 2008

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time: 8pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
Venue: Artists Television Access
992 Valencia St. (at 21st St)
San Francisco, CA
Ticket price: $6
Dr Robert Gould Will Be Speaking at SF Screening :
Expert on nuclear weapons and related health issues, anti-war activism. Former national president and current Bay Area chapter president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Co-author [...]

SF Bay PSR Program Associate Lena Brook Reviews A New Addition To Literature on Food Equity and Sustainability

August 11, 2008

BOOK REVIEW: CLOSING THE FOOD GAP: RESETTING THE TABLE IN THE LAND OF PLENTY–Mark Winne
By LENA BROOK
Mark Winne’s Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty is an elegant, inspiring addition to the growing body of literature on the food revolution unfolding in the United States today. The author spent over [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors Anti-Nuclear Protest In Berkeley. Executive Director Evan Krasner, MD to Speak

August 4, 2008

NO MORE Nuclear War EVER AGAIN, August 6th Noon-4:00pm
Stand for peace – in remembrance of the lives destroyed in Hiroshima, lives now threatened in Iran, and our Constitutional rights – with CodePINK, SF Bay PSR, MECA, Courage to Resist, Women in Black, Gray Panthers, South Bay Mobilization, American Muslim Voices, and others August 6th, Wednesday, [...]

SF Bay PSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Thomas Newman Publishes Anti-Nuclear Proliferation Article in Influential Medical Journal

May 16, 2008

Dr. Newman’s article, “Taking a Stand Against Nuclear Proliferation: The Pediatrician’s Role,” was published in the May 2008 issue of the prominent medical journal, Pediatrics. Dr. Newman writes from the perspective of a pediatrician and public health physician, and appeals to his colleagues to speak out about the threat to children posed by nuclear weapons, [...]