PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - N. Robb
TI  - The environment was right for Nova Scotia's new environmental health clinic
DP  - 1995 Apr 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1292--1295
VI  - 152
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/8/1292.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/8/1292.full
SO  - CMAJ1995 Apr 15; 152
AB  - With a $1-million contribution from the Nova Scotia government, Dalhousie University medical school is establishing an environmental health clinic that will research and treat the controversial condition known as multiple-chemical sensitivity. Already several hundred Nova Scotians, including about 100 former employees of Halifax's Camp Hill Hospital, have been referred to a part-time clinic that addresses environmental illness and other unexplained conditions. Some physicians contend that the sensitivity is largely psychosomatic and treatments provide little more than a placebo effect, but proponents believe research will support environmental health's goal of becoming a new, recognized speciality.