Pumpkins are the universal symbols of Fall and Halloween. But now, researchers have found that the skin of that pumpkin you carved into a Jack-o’-Lantern contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions infections in adults and infants each year.
Many French, Eastern Europeans and Italians have stopped kissing each other on the cheeks when they meet. Same goes for many living in Quebec, Montreal and some Islamic and South American countries. Also, doctors say, the ever popular air kiss is being done from a greater distance.
The Coalition for Chemical Safety sounds like just the kind of group to which environmental activists would swarm.
Centuries ago alchemists proclaimed copper a life-saving metal. Some Native American shamans and Amazonian jungle healers use potions and trinkets of copper to treat hundreds of maladies. Millions of people wear copper bracelets to ease the pain of arthritis. And late-night hucksters and Internet spammers claim copper can cure everything from ruptured Achilles tendons to [...]
California has a killer state rock.
After two years of research, health investigators have reported that slaughterhouse workers that suffered debilitating diseases of their nervous system were exposed to microscopic particles of pig brain.
The internet has become an open door for modern snake oil salesmen trying to profit on the public’s fear of the H1N1 flu.
There is nothing on this planet that doesn’t have its own unique odor. Some are enticing, seductive, even wondrous. Others are revolting, stomach-turning or repulsive.
The EPA is worried about drugs getting into the water supply. DEA is concerned about drugs getting into your kids. And the FDA – the agency responsible for legal drugs – has finally decided to weigh what to do with all the extra medications lying around most homes.
Government researchers have found that high-fructose corn syrup, which is used as a sweetening agent in thousands of products, creates potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance when heated.
