2016 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:11:43 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Birth defects and pollution: Study on IBM in Endicott [New York] out next week"
 
Birth defects and pollution: Study on IBM in Endicott out next week

by Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
May 20, 2016

When a federal study on pollution’s relationship to birth defects in Endicott is released next week, it will be packed with research terms such as "risk factors," "statistical significance" and others reflecting the tools of epidemiology.

Like the researchers, former Endicott residents Tiah and Kevin Every are drawn to the same health mystery – but their quest for answers is more personal.

Their son, Deron, was born in 2003 with a malformed heart requiring open heart surgery as an infant. At 12, he survived a heart attack, a stroke and more major operations.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2016/05/20/birth-defects-pollution-study-ibm-endicott-tce/84500904/

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Lenny Siegel
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