• Bisphenol A and Pthalates Guidance (PDF)
• Healthy Homes
  • Healthy Homes Resource Guide (PDF) 
  • Environmental health concerns and your home (PDF)
  • Pediatric Environmental Heath Assessment
  • What To Do if a Compact Fluorscent Light (CFL) Bulb Breaks in your Home
• Molds
• Lead
  • Fact Sheet - Lead in DC Drinking Water (PDF)
• Pesticides
• Mercury
  • Instructions For Cleaning Up “Small” Liquid Mercury Spills In Household (PDF)
  • Advice for Women Who Are Pregnant, or Who Might Become Pregnant, and Nursing Mothers, About Avoiding Harm To Your Baby Or Young Child From Mercury in Fish and Shellfish (PDF)
• Arsenic poisoning
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

General Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Environmental Health
• American Cancer Society ()
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
• American Lung Association (1-800-LUNG-USA)
• Art Hazards Program, Sacramento, California (916-445-6900)
• Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) 
• Bio-Integral Resource Center, Berkeley, California
• Bioterrorism and Children
• Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute (1-800-4-CANCER (422-6237))
• CDC/National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
• Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, Alexandria, Virginia
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition

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For healthcare providers

• Essay: Prenatal Exposures: A Continuum of Vulnerability to Environmental Toxins
  

  Watch the presentation: Potential Health Impacts of Fracking Presented by Jerome Paulson, MD November 2011

• Presentation: Potential Health Impacts of Natural Gas Extraction with Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking). Presented November 2011 by Jerome Paulson, MD
• Presentation: Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill 2010: Creating Guidance to Protect Children's Health. Presented November 22, 2010 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine by Joel Foreman, MD and Jerome Paulson, MD.
• Book: Healthy and Safe Homes: Research, Practice and Policy (order from American Public Health Association)
• Article: Green Right Now/KABC-TV (Los Angeles) Dr. Paulson discusses the impact of climate change on children.
• Bisphenol A and Pthalates Guidance (PDF)
• Healthy Homes (PDF)
• Indoor Mold Exposure – Effects, Recognition, and Management (PDF)
• Hair Analysis – It’s Lack of Utility in Clinical Decision Making with Pediatric Patients (PDF)
• Waterborne Disease and Health Effects
• Bioterrorism
• Anthrax as a Biological Weapon: Medical & Public Health Management 
• Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon: Medical & Public Health Management
• Plague as a Biological Weapon: Medical & Public Health Management
• Smallpox as a Biological Weapon: Medical & Public Health Management
• Tularemia as a Biological Weapon: Medical & Public Health Management
• Effects of Climate Change on Pediatric Health (PDF)
• Asthma fact  heet (PDF)
• Autism and the Environment fact sheet (PDF)
• School Nurses and Children's Health and the Environment fact sheet (PDF)
• Damp School Environment fact sheet (PDF)

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Related links

• General resources suggested reading list (PDF)
• Environmental Health Resources reading list (PDF)

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