My package of stories,”The Nanotech Gamble” on AOL News, grew out of interviews with more than 450 scientists, government officials, experts, advocates and others over a 15-month period, and my review of thousands of pages of related documents. I’m continuing to follow this topic, and more stories will be posted on AOL.
Here are some quick [...]

Now everybody has an equal chance of getting a flu shot every year.
The “shot czars” on the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices have called for equal access for everyone seeking the protective inoculation.
The panel of immunization experts voted to expand the recommendation for annual influenza vaccination to include all people aged [...]

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.

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.

Clinicians from around the world are reporting a very severe form of the Swine Flu and they’re finding it in younger, otherwise healthy people, says the World Health Organization.
Infectious disease specialists say that in these patients the virus directly infects the lung, causing severe respiratory failure.
Survival for these patients depend on highly specialized and demanding [...]

The August recess has emptied Washington of most of the elected grownups, but a sparring match among top public health activists over a study on nanomaterial in sunscreens lingers on.
You’ve got to love it when three white-hat-wearing senior scientists skirmish over a study written by three other presumed good guys.
Last week, I wrote about the [...]

I felt that I should write about the passing of Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy or Teddy, as much of the world called him, even to his face.
It seems that everyone who was ever a reporter or writer of any stature has already pontificated about the lion of the senate who will roar no more.
I actually [...]

For decades, hard rock mining, the search for gold, silver and other precious metals, brought people, industry and wealth to Montana. But corporations funding the mining, mostly foreign-owned, abandoned the played-out mines, leaving once beautiful mountains as gutted waste sites and pristine streams poisoned.  Laura Lundquist, a contributing writer for coldtruth.com, shares her opinions on [...]

Think about this, something beneficial to health from the villainous tobacco plant.
Scientists have used a new production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, the unpleasant package of diarrhea and vomiting that has destroyed the costly holidays of thousands of cruise ship vacationers.
Charles Arntzen today told the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society [...]

It’s the strongest warning yet from one of Australia’s best known fertility researchers: men who want to have children should not wear cell phones below their waists.
This issue, says research leader John Aitken, “deserves our immediate attention.”
Microwave News reports that Aitken’s research group at the University of Newcastle in Australia has found that human sperm [...]