Jill Stein, MD 


Dr. Jill Stein, a graduate
of Harvard Medical School, is a co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition
for Healthy Communities and a board member of Greater Boston Physicians
for Social Responsibility (GBPSR). She is co-author of the recently
published Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging (downloadable
free at
www.agehealthy.org)

and co-author of a previous report, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats
to Child Development
, (GBPSR 2000).
 


Ted Schettler,
MD, MPH
 


Dr. Ted Schettler is Science
Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network (www.sehn.org).
He has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s
in public health from Harvard University. He also serves as science advisor
for the Collaborative on Health and Environment Network and for the
Health Care Without Harm campaign. He is co-author of the recently published
Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging (downloadable free
at
www.agehealthy.org), co-author of

In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development

(GBPSR 2000), and co-author of Generations at Risk: Reproductive
Health and the Environment 
(MIT Press 1999).

Blog Entries by Jill Stein and Ted Schettler

Reducing The Risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases

Posted March 25, 2009 | 06:22 PM (EST)


A new synthesis of medical research reveals good news for those who thought that neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are genetically determined and can not be avoided. In fact, the research shows that genetics plays a minor role -- if any -- in the overwhelming majority of cases. Far...

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