Pesticides: High Court Judgement on over-sprayadmin admin
"All exposure factors must, it is said, be taken into account. It is not enough to consider exposure to the immediate spray [drift] alone. There must be recognition that residents may be exposed to vapours which persist in the air for a considerable time (certainly hours and possibly days, weeks or even longer) and to residues which may, for example, be contained in harvest dust... + Full Story
Mary Langman Prize Essayadmin admin
The Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took place between 1935 – 1950.
As part of its activities, the Foundation is launching the ‘Mary Langman Prize’; an annual award for an essay that furthers the lessons learnt at the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional... + Full Story
Iodine DeficiencyTrevor Brian Bennett Izzeldin Hussein, member of the Board of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency on his work in Sudan, gave a lecture recently at LondonMet University, Holloway, London. We will be putting his Powerpoint presentation on this website shortly. Although we are supposed to know how to prevent iodine deficiency, and it is the most certain way of retarding the brain of the... + Full Story
Welcome to the McCarrison Society and summary of its Aims
In this millennium, the greatest threat to our future security comes from the escalation of non-communicable diseases which now kill more people than the tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS and all infectious diseases combined. By 2020, mental ill health will share the top three burdens of health with perinatal conditions and heart disease.