This is an important story that hasn’t been written before.
Carol Smith, a skilled reporter and gifted writer, has documented something that had been rumored for years to be killing medical professionals, proven in peer-reviewed studies, but ignored by government safety regulators.
Spread over most of the front page of today’s Seattle Times, [...]

The health hazards of bisphenol A are clearly proven, but scientists now report that the levels of the chemical – used to protect canned food from corrosion and bacteria –  are surprisingly high in the  canned goods found on our kitchen shelves.
To reach this conclusion, 50 different cans of food were collected [...]

The White House patted itself on the back and said that the federal government’s nanotechnology operation was doing a “commendable” job.
These words did not come from President Obama, but rather were the conclusion of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and 12 leading civilian experts recruited to examine what the White House-run [...]

It’s happening again. A single salmonella-contaminated food item is forcing recalls of scores of other products throughout the country.
We went though this last year with contaminated peanuts from the Georgia and Texas plants of Peanut Corporation of America.
PCA recalled the tainted goobers, but the ripple effect spread for weeks as hundreds of manufacturers pulled thousands [...]

Over the holidays I wrote about a meal we all wanted to avoid.
For the appetizer: San Antonio Bay oysters polluted with Noroviruses. For the main course: grilled beef infected with E. coli from contaminated tenderizing needles; chicken with Campylobacter or imported ham with Listeria monocytogenes. Then there’s a side dish of stuffing loaded with salmonella-contaminated [...]

The frequently forgotten and often ignored asbestos victims in Libby, Mont., came out as possible big winners in the dead-of-night battle over health care reform.
According to the Associated Press, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus quietly inserted language in a package of last-minute amendments that will grant the asbestos victims of the tiny town in the [...]

I have the feeling that if we had transported all the politicians bickering over improving access to health care to a community college in Michigan today they would have gotten a lesson in how to do what has to be done.
About 400 physicians gathered in Lansing to hear top doctors and senior insurance officials lay [...]

As lawmakers in Washington try to control the swirling tornado know as health care reform, a study has been released showing that thousands die each year because they have no health insurance.
What makes the fate of this group of patients even more puzzling is that they are victims of trauma and thought to be protected [...]

At last, the world’s oldest public health organization has joined the funeral dirge-paced parade to ban asbestos in the U.S.
The 50,000-member American Public Health Association adopted a resolution at its annual meeting this week calling on Congress to pass legislation banning the manufacture, sale, export, or import of asbestos-containing products including products in which asbestos [...]

California has a killer state rock.