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The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center
for Pediatric Oncology®
Our Mission
To identify, control and ultimately prevent
exposures to environmental factors that may cause adult,
and especially pediatric cancer,
as well as other health problems with our children.
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Back-to-School "To Do" List from Deirdre Imus
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Give Children an Environmental Exposure Check up
 I recommend your children get a yearly check up that includes a brief discussion of your child’s potential exposures to environmental toxins in their environment at home, school, playground, sports, anywhere they spend a lot of time. This should also include a focus on your child’s diet/food. These tests are usually a combination of urine and full blood work up that check levels of pesticide exposure; toxins such as cadmium, antimony, lead, mercury, aluminum, phthalates, BPA’s; PCB’s and also includes checking nutritional levels such as vitamin B, vitamin D3, iron, and zinc to make sure your child is optimized for detox/excretion. You can head off potential health problems if you know where your child’s levels are at. For example, if your child has a low or deficient Vitamin D3 level then your pediatrician can recommend proper supplementation.
More "Back To School" To Do's Greening Your School |
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September is Cancer Awareness Month Deirdre’s Cancer Prevention Tips
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| Most people will never read the President's Cancer Panel Report even though it has very important information on ways to help prevent cancer. So I've made it easy and have provided you with 13 Basic Tips that everyone should follow to help prevent cancer and maintain wellness. ...more |
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HUMC: State-of-the-Art Medicine, Quality Patient Care
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 Q. Why is being a "green" hospital important?
A. Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) strives to set a national standard for environmentally sound hospitals because it is the right thing to do. As a national leader in healthcare and disease prevention, we recognize and embrace the practice of environmental design in creating a total healing environment, from the air handling system to the pillowcases...even the cleaning products are green...
The leader of our "green" hospital initiative, Deirdre Imus, has done a terrific job as president and founder of the award-winning Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology®, part of HUMC. She helped HUMC develop a Greening the Cleaning® program in 2001 and since then has helped hundreds of healthcare facilities, government authorities, business and schools do the same...
Read the full interview with HUMC President/CEO Robert C. Garrett in
the June 2010 issue of Commerce.
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HUMC Wins Excellence in Patient Care Award for Exemplary Cleanliness
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| HACKENSACK, NJ, July 20, 2010 -- Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) has been chosen to receive an Excellence in Patient Care award by the Studer Group®. The hospital will receive the award—which will be presented at the 8th annual What’s Right in Health CareSM conference—for its exemplary “cleanliness” ratings on the HCAHPS patient survey. |
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Gulf Oil Spill's Silent Victims--The Children
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By Deirdre Imus, Erin S. Ihde
and Dr. Lawrence Rosen
The BP oil spill has garnered international attention for unimaginable real and future losses: lives as well as livelihoods, wildlife and coastal communities. We've learned from the Exxon Valdez and other spills how these catastrophes impact ecosystems, and witnessed the years of rehabilitation and billions of dollars invested in the cleanup. Yet in weighing these losses, little attention is being given to what this latest man-made disaster will mean to the most vulnerable of our society: our children... Click to read the full article at AOLNews.com.
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Natural Cleaning Products for the Kitchen
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The kitchen is often the gathering place for a family and is the heart
of the home, according to Deirdre Imus, author of Green This! Volume
1:
Greening Your Cleaning. ... Read more (Livestrong.com)
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Award-winning household green
cleaning products.
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| 100%
of all profits from our retail line go to the Imus Cattle
Ranch for Kids with Cancer, a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit. |
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President's Panel on Cancer
Details Environmental Risks
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| Check out the report from the President's Panel on Cancer and learn what you can do to reduce your exposures. It offers a comprehensive approach to reducing cancer and other health risks associated with environmental contaminants, in our air, water, food, soil, excess radiation, and other harmful exposures. Everyone has a role. The Panel recommends concrete actions for governments; industry; research, health care, and advocacy communities; as well as individuals. About two in five Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and about one in five will die of cancer. Learn the seven things the report recommends to reduce your risks. more... |
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Senate to Consider "Safe Chemicals Act of 2010"
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| The "Kid-Safe Chemicals Act" Senate bill of 2008 is being replaced by the "Safe Chemicals Act of 2010," introduced in April by Senator Frank Lautenberg of N.J. A companion House bill is still in committee. The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology vigorously supports efforts to curb toxins in the environment that threaten children's health.. .....more |
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Legislation
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"Green Cleaning" Policy for NJ Schools
NJ Assembly bill A1848 would require the Department of Education to adopt green cleaning policy for schools and child care centers with 50 or more students. It was introduced January 25 and referred to the Education Committee. |
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Clean Sweep -- Deirdre Imus and Healthy Kids
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It wouldn’t be difficult to imagine Deirdre Imus strolling along Fifth
Avenue, popping into any tony boutique, and being fawned over by
salesclerks. As the wife of media personality Don Imus, this Westport
resident could have easily taken her place in that exclusive club. But
Deirdre Imus has more important things on her mind. As mother, wife,
best-selling author, entrepreneur, national advocate for a green
lifestyle, and committed cancer crusader, she packs more into one week
than most people do in a decade.
...Click to read the full article in the May/June 2010 issue of WMN magazine.
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Deirdre Imus Sparks Kid-Powered Relief for Haiti
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Deirdre Imus Sparks
Kid-Powered Relief for Haiti
HACKENSACK, NJ, March 17, 2010 – Haitian children are receiving colorful bags filled with messages of love and goodies from U.S. school children through a new program of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology® called Kids-Love-Kids. This program is possible with the combined forces of Operation Goody Bag, the Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), and an army of children from East Brook Middle School.
Donate NowSelect "Operation Goody Bag" from the pulldown menu.
* HAITI PHOTO GALLERIES *
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5 Easy Steps to Greening
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Easy Steps to Greening
Your Home
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Your Life
... Your Diet
...Your Hospital... Your New Building...
From The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology® |
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Childhood Cancer Statistics"
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Over 90% of all cancers are caused by environmental
factors;
fewer than 10% are genetic.
This means that childhood
cancer
is often preventable.
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Up & Coming
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DATE / TIME
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APPEARANCE |
LOCATION |
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Tues, Sept 21
9 pm – 10 pm (ET) |
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Wed, Sept 22
6 am - 6 pm (ET) |
3rd
Annual
Imus Ranch
Golf Fundraiser |
Great River Golf Club
130 Coram Lane
Milford, CT
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Thurs, Sept 23
7 pm (ET) |
Keynote Presentation
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Princeton
Public Library
65 Witherspoon St.
Princeton, NJ
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