👇🔥Chronic disease are going up and corporate products are responsible for 31% of deaths globally. Corporations are a vector for disease need to be addressed through research and policy to reduce health harms and improve health. See our paper in www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease — Using Internal Industry Documents to Craft Counterstrategies | NEJM

Corporations that make and market health-harming products are a primary vector for the global increase in mortality related to noncommunicable diseases. Research using internal industry documents c...

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Center to End Corporate Harm@c2ech.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very excited to announce our paper on corporate vectors of chronic disease - and what can be done about it - published in NEJM! Congrats to all our authors including @nickchartres.bsky.social @feralyogi.bsky.social @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028

New TSCA amendments proposed by Republicans in the Senate would undermine EPA ability to stop toxic new chemicals on the marketplace. Sadly no one from the public health community was asked to testify.

Center to End Corporate Harm@c2ech.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Are you watching today's Senate EPW Committee hearing on the draft bill to gut America's chemical safety law? Industry influence is alive and well.

Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

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The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals. What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips

The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,

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👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process

Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS)@heeds.bsky.social · 10mo ago

webinar Thurs. Dec. 11: Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

At EPA’s D4 meeting today: - Most reviewers industry affiliated - Most EPA scientists in sync with industry - EU, UK, Canada: “D4 very persistent and very bioaccumulatative” - EPA: “maybe persistent but not bioaccumulative” This is what corporate capture looks like www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...

Day 1 12/02 - Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)

YouTube video by uvideoonline

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Another Making America Sick Again action by the Trump administration. Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying. insideepa.com/daily-news/e...

this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇 www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...

So many plastics from so many places - and growing leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August

Tracey Woodruff@traceywoodruff.bsky.social · last yr.

👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...

👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...

Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say - Inside Climate News

Plastics and their toxic chemicals endanger people, wildlife and the environment throughout their life cycle, they warn, calling for production caps in the U.N. treaty.

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Washington’s @ecology.wa.gov just released a draft rule on toxic #PFAS. ✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products. ⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban. PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist. 🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!

Tell Ecology: Ban PFAS in ALL products! - Toxic-Free Future

Washington's Department of Ecology must do more to identify safer solutions and ban PFAS in ALL products—not just a few.

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Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.” UCS Statement:

Dark Day for Climate, Health as EPA Axes Power Plant Carbon Regs, Reopens Mercury Pollution Loopholes

EPA announced new plans to unravel protections from harmful carbon emissions and hazardous air pollution released by fossil fuel-fired power plants

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👉new blog on study finding exposures to haloalkanes linked to aggressive brain cancer - supported by our @ucsf-earth.bsky.social prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...

Chemicals used in firefighting and pesticides linked to most common and deadly brain tumors

Causes of gliomas, the most common type of deadly brain tumor, remain a mystery despite improvements in understanding glioma risks. Firefighters have a higher rate of these cancerous tumors, so we exp...

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New study finding glyphosate increases cancers after early life exposure ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats - Environmental Health

Background Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the world’s most widely used weed control agents. Public health concerns have increased since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) c...

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👇My interview in @newscientist.com on how corporations' control your health - and what we can do about it. Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Do corporations actually have more control over your health than you?

From the food on supermarket shelves to the air we breathe, large companies exert a greater impact on our health than we might realise, argues health scientist Tracey Woodruff

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woo hoo - successful science! more of what the world needs

Wallace Marshall@wallaceucsf.bsky.social · last yr.

It worked!!!!

Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

How often can you get admission to a FREE workshop with experts in systematic review? If you are attending @isee-global.bsky.social in Atlanta - learn best practices Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-con...

TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy. @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Join us to hear about what is really driving our current health crisis - and the amazing resources at UCSF that will help address the role of corporate influence on science as a health driver. 👇

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · last yr.

One week from today! Learn about the corporate secrets in the UCSF Industry Documents Library and how you can use the library in your research. Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

OH the irony - they want to publish in their own journals? and they suspended publication of Environmental Health Perspectives a NIEHS/NIH journal. hmm

STAT@statnews.com · last yr.

The criticism of The Lancet, NEJM and JAMA is not new, but the health secretary may use his position to influence research that journals publish. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...

Our statement on new MAHA report. It identifies growing chronic children's health conditions and some toxic chemicals' effects. Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...

Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report

Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release o...

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Excellent speech by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social If the administration is serious about making America healthy they need to fund environmental research. It is science fiction to think that you can cut 55% of EPA’s budget and expect people’s health to improve. www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...

Toxic Priorities: How Trump’s EPA Puts Polluters Over People

YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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And I have been hard on the NYTimes for not covering the role of funding source in their science. So I want to give them extra props and say - please more.

Tracey Woodruff@traceywoodruff.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent NY Times article on how industry funding influences findings of whether meat is beneficial 👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

Excellent NY Times article on how industry funding influences findings of whether meat is beneficial 👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

Is Red Meat Bad for Your Heart? It May Depend on Who Funded the Study.

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Good news from other countries - Finally a process for banning toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs).

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · last yr.

Meetings of three major United Nations chemical conventions wrapped last week, with an agreement for new global restrictions on three persistent organic pollutants. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky🧪