The head of the Centers for Disease Control said he expects to see increasing numbers of deaths from swine flu because those most at risk from the disease are not seeking treatment when they become ill.
That, said CDC Chief Dr. Thomas Frieden, makes inoculation for the highest risk Americans even more important.
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.
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.
It’s only a snapshot, but 20 physicians and nurses from ten states allowed their bodily fluids to be tested for the presence of chemicals that are linked to health problems and are everywhere in our environment. All the medical professional were found to have surprising levels of toxic chemicals in their systems.
Why is it taking years to protect workers and consumers from illness and death from butter flavoring used in thousands of foods?
Here’s a fact: all influenza, not just H1N1, is mostly transmitted by breathing particles of the virus from those with the disease.
No, I can’t answer the question of why you got the flu last month when the flu season didn’t officially begin until Sunday.
Many public health activists cheered this week’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it plans to actually move ahead with research to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment.
