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Chemical Sensitivity News ( 1 - 40 of 43 items)

• Annie Hopper meets with neuroplasticity author Norman Doidge, MD
  The creator of the Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ talks face-to-face with the author of The Brain That Changes Itself about chemical intolerance and the promise of a brain plasticity treatment approach.
• Bene’s Battle Is Not Yet Over
  Bene Barrymore, a senior who should be enjoying a comfortable retirement, is instead appealing to her community to help her repair her car so she can seek safe shelter before pesticide spraying season starts.
• Interview with Laurie Tümer, MCS Landlord
  The owner of Eco-Casitas for Traveling Canaries in Espanola, New Mexico shares tips for running your own MCS guest house.
• Chemically Sensitive Artist Reveals Pesticide Trail
  An interview with fine art photographer Laurie Tümer about her illuminating body of work.
• Seeking Participants for MCS Work Study
  MCS researcher Pamela Reed Gibson, PhD and her team at James Madison University are seeking participants for a new study of persons with chemical sensitivities in the workplace.
• Call for submissions: Scarsongs
  Submit your writing and art for an anthology articulating the terrain of trauma and resilience - a collaboration of the Icarus Project, the Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, and Activist Trauma Support.
• New on PT: Site Map
  Planet Thrive has added a site map that lists all the sections of the site in "outline" form in order to help visitors navigate around the comprehensive website.
• Chicago Tribune features chemically sensitive artist
  The Chicago Tribune presents an inspiring account of one woman's struggle to overcome severely isolating and disabling chemical sensitivity.
• Artists: Win a 3 Bedroom House in Maine!
  One lucky artist may be the new owner of this 3 bedroom house located in Sanford, Maine -- if they can write the winning essay for the Artist's House Essay Contest.
• Interview with performance artist Julie Laffin
  Moving Beyond MCS, a blog about recovering from environmental illness, has published an interview with performance artist Julie Laffin that explores how her work has evolved due to her illness.
• Unravelling the Mystery of Autism
  E Magazine's cover story this month connects environmental toxicity with autism -- shining light on the link between children with autism and adults with environmental illness.
• Hope for MCS/EI housing communities?
  A general contractor/developer from Fargo, North Dakota appeared on Facebook.com last week to announce his interest in tackling the housing crisis of the chemically sensitive.
• A Few Select Safer Condos in Dallas Being Offered for Sale
  As of December 1, 2009, a few select Regina Caeli Environmental Condos in Dallas are being offered for sale at $105,000. Buyers may be eligible for the Homebuyers Tax Credits, available until April 30, 2010.
• Nesting Instinct: A Survey of Bedding Options for the Chemically Sensitive
  Julie Genser presents an array of sleeping solutions for those unable to tolerate chemicals in conventional mattresses and bedding materials.
• 12 Ways to Stay Warm this Winter with Severe MCS/ES
  For those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, staying warm through a cold winter can be quite challenging. Here are 12 tips for conserving body heat and surviving the coming winter season.
• MCS Brain Retraining: Medical Scam or Breakthrough?
  The Canary Report's recently published op-ed "The False Promise of Miracle Cures for MCS" by Lourdes Salvador and Linda Sepp is full of disinformation.
• Naked and Caged: A Nightmare Come True
  Right this moment, former professional concert pianist and music teacher, Maha Laxmi, is sitting naked in her bed somewhere in Canada, under a Faraday cage -- a structure that blocks wireless signals.
• Online fundraiser for severe ME/CFS and MCS sufferer
  Help Jason keep his love Nicole afloat: on "bad days" she cannot speak and can barely turn over in bed. With savings dwindling quickly, they are appealing to friends and family for help.
• Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  An interview with Dutch author Els Valkenburg, whose book "Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Causes, Effects, Personal Experiences and Resources" was recently translated into English.
• When Illness Strikes, Men Leave More Often
  WebMD shares the results of a new study that shows women with cancer and multiple sclerosis are more likely than men to become separated or divorced.
• Safe Houses: Only for the affluent?
  Barbara Eaton, president of a regional chapter of The National Association of the Physically Handicapped, writes about how people with MCS who have few resources end up as housing refugees.
• Missing: A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
  Salvador López Arnal interviews Eva Caballé, Spanish author and MCS activist, about her new book "Desaparecida. Una vida rota por la sensibilidad química múltiple" ("Missing. A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities").
• Call for chemical free zone
  Tami Duncan, Executive Director of the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation sends out a plea to parents and practitioners of autistic children to refrain from wearing perfume, and other scented products.
• Pesticide kills humans but not bugs
  Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Whitfield's mobile home is still infested with insects after using a bug spray but her 10-month-old baby is dead and her 2-year-old son was critically injured.
• Bene’s Battle
  A senior with environmental illness hopes to avoid yearly homelessness during pesticide spraying season. Find out how you can help!
• Ashok Gupta Interview
  Planet Thrive founder Julie Genser interviews Ashok Gupta to get a more in-depth view into the Amygdala Retraining™ Program for CFS/ME and related disorders.
• (dis)abling conditions: curated by Julie Laffin
  Julie Laffin will be "Skyped" in to this year's disability-themed Site Unseen show in Chicago to help spread awareness on environmental illness. The show is presented by The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
• Successful treatment of mold-related illness
  Study results from Planet Thrive Q & A columnist William J. Rea, M.D.'s successful treatment of patients with mycotoxin-induced disease were recently published in the Oct/Nov 2009 issue of Toxicology and Industrial Health.
• MCS recognized in Japan
  Eva Caballé corresponds with Takeshi Yasuma from Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP) in Japan on the level of acceptance MCS gets in his country.
• MCS – Caused by Toxic Chemical Exposure
  Breakthrough study on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity shows MCS is an epidemic caused by toxic chemicals; peer-reviewed paper is published in prestigious toxicology reference work.
• Rewiring the Chemically Sensitive Brain
  Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining System offers new hope to those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, and related conditions
• Whoopi: You in Danger, Girl!
  As Whoopi Goldberg's character Oda Mae Brown in the movie Ghost says to Molly, we'd like to say to her: "You in danger, girl!"
• Rewiring the Brain against Addiction – and MCS?
  Researchers are figuring out how addiction rewires the brain. The goal is to eventually be able to rewire an addicted brain back to the way it was, before the drugs, the cravings, and the self-destruction.
• Perfume spritz sickens 150 in Texas
  Thirty four people were overcome with fumes from a co-worker's perfume in a Texas bank, sending them to the hospital. Many others were treated on site for sickness.
• The Ovenless Kitchen
  Many with environmental illness will eventually find that cooking with a standard gas oven makes them very ill. Julie Genser has surveyed those with both severe chemical and electrical sensitivities in her community and presents an array of available options for the "ovenless kitchen."
• In search of a non-toxic home
  July 24, 2009 LA Times health feature and photo essay on Kathy Hemenway and her non-toxic house in Snowflake, Arizona.
• A Gypsy Life: Notes from the Diaspora
  Mokihana and Pete of Washington state discuss their journey with chemical sensitivity, building a tiny safe home on wheels, and their gypsy lifestyle.
• New healthier housing site: MCSsafehomes.com
  Planet Thrive's new free service for safer housing & trailer listings.
• Healing words
  Five Canadian women suffering from fibromyalgia, CFS, MCS and other related conditions started a health book club called Health Pursuits Reading/Study Group in 1996 which now has over 60 members.
• Ashok Gupta Explains the Amygdala Retraining Program for ME/CFS/FM and Associated Illnesses
  Ashok Gupta's self-recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome gave him the insight needed to develop his Amygdala Retraining™ Program that helps those with CFS, ME, Fibromyalgia, MCS and related conditions.