title: The environment was right for Nova Scotia's new environmental health clinic.
abstract: 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.
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authors.lastname: Robb
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002202:Capital Financing; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D018777:Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D009674:Nova Scotia; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012106:Research; D013038:Specialization; D014691:Ventilation