The four groups of chemicals that trigger consumption advisories — PCBs, mercury, dioxins and PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfate) — have all been associated with endocrine disruption.
Category: Health & Welfare
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Environmental agencies respond to questions about endocrine disruptors
Emails from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Minnow reveals wastewater’s toxic effects
Males exposed to chemicals managed to mate if other males were not around. But if they had to compete with the control males, however, they “suffered nearly total reproductive failure”: They had no game.
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Profiles: Chemicals in the water
More about nonylphenol and BPA, two chemicals commonly found in Minnesota’s waters.
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Concerns grow about hormone-disrupting chemicals in Wisconsin water
Endocrine disruptors have been called a “global threat” to people and wildlife, but Wisconsin is lagging behind Minnesota in testing its waters for them.
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Frac sand industry faces DNR violations, warnings
Nearly a fifth of Wisconsin’s 70 active frac sand mines and processing plants were cited for environmental violations last year, as the industry continued to expand at a rapid clip.
Posted inA Frail System, Health & Welfare
Nursing homes draw lawsuits
Since 1986, at least 297 personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed against Wisconsin nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
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Wisconsin nursing homes fail to report deaths, injuries
Attorneys for families of residents say that facilities’ failure to report serious injuries or deaths related to abuse or neglect is not uncommon. Far more often, they say, the state health department only learns about a case of alleged neglect or abuse after a family member files a complaint. Advocates for health care providers stress that incidents of neglect and abuse are extremely rare, and can come to regulators’ attention in a variety of ways.
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Center’s inquiries prompt state policy changes
In response to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s inquiries into an accident involving a 88-year-old woman at a Milwaukee nursing home, the state Department of Health Services launched an internal review, which concluded that state officials did not properly respond. As a result, the department says it has reviewed its intake procedures and made changes to ensure that complaints against nursing homes are triaged appropriately and investigated in a timely fashion.
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Data: Nursing home inspections
Federal inspection records of Wisconsin nursing homes, September 2009 through November 2012, focusing on only those deficiencies deemed to put residents in “immediate jeopardy.” Data were compiled by ProPublica.
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Nursing home inspections
Federal inspections have found serious deficiencies in one-quarter of Wisconsin nursing homes since 2009.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Welfare, Justice & Safety
How tort reform bill changed state law
A breakdown of what changed under Wisconsin’s Act 2, passed in January, 2011.