TY - JOUR T1 - The environment was right for Nova Scotia's new environmental health clinic JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 1292 LP - 1295 VL - 152 IS - 8 AU - N. Robb Y1 - 1995/04/15 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/8/1292.abstract N2 - 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. ER -