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 man who first created and marketed the painfully noisy vuvuzela horn is now including ear plugs with the plastic noisemakers.  But Neil Van Schalkwyk’s generosity may come too late for thousands whose hearing has already been damaged or destroyed.
Meanwhile, shipments of thousands of the hearing-annihilating horns are arriving this week at some U.S. ballparks [...]

EPA must be gulping down its energy drinks in large quantities, because after years of allowing corporations to withhold vital safety information, it screamed “stop” yesterday.
In the Federal Register, the agency said that it will no longer permit the obstruction of safety evaluations by allowing firms to hide behind age-old claims of business secrecy.
EPA Administrator [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.