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Health officials track harbor bacteria menace (Contra Costa Times)

County Environmental Health officials have known for years that Pillar Point Harbor's waters contain dangerously high levels of fecal coliform bacteria. They'll test that hypothesis with an ambitious, wide-scale, real-time water circulation study on Sept. 27.

UW doctoral student in environmental health to receive 2008 Bullitt Foundation prize (UW News)

Clarita Lefthand, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, will receive the second annual Bullitt Environmental Prize at an awards dinner to be held Sept. 9 in Seattle. The cash award of $100,000 distributed over two years is in recognition of Lefthand's ...

African Health And Environment Ministers Join To Defend Health From Environmental Harm (Medical News Today)

Health and Environment Ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic health and environment alliance to reduce environmental threats to human health and well-being.

Great Lakes health study criticized: "Substandard science" (Chicago Tribune)

Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.

Call for results of health probe into urban beach (The Inverness Courier)

AN Inverness councillor concerned about the cleanliness of a temporary beach sited in the city centre during the school holidays has called for the results of an environmental health inspection to be published to allay public concerns.