That familiar smell from opening a new shower curtain could be hazardous to your health. And
that’s why a consumer group is urging retailers to stop selling PVC shower curtains.
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice has just published “Volatile Vinyl: The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell”, which claims more than 100 chemicals are released into […]
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Vaccines Approved for Flu Season
The country is still gripped by the heat of summer, but federal officials are already thinking about a common cold weather problem.
The flu bug is the target of new seasonal vaccines announced today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The influenza vaccines include new strains of the virus likely to appear during the 2008-2009 season. […]
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A new pharmaceutical weapon is emerging in the breast cancer fight.
One of the latest studies shows that younger women battling the disease may benefit from a drug used to treat the brittle bones disease known an osteoporosis.
Austrian researchers have found that women who took Zometa had a one-third lower risk of the cancer spreading to […]
With the arrival of summer comes the annual warning about the West Nile virus. The Centers for Disease Control says some human, bird and equine infections have already been reported this year.
Human cases have been reported in Arizona, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Avian, animal or mosquito WNV infections have been reported from the following states in […]
One of the earliest general anaesthetics to be used by the medical profession, chloroform, has shed light on a mystery that’s puzzled doctors for more than 150 years – how such anaesthetics actually work.
A discovery described as “true serendipity” made by Leeds University PhD student Dr Yahya Bahnasi, has provided a clue that may unravel […]
In a case study on how not to recycle electronic waste (e-waste), scientists in the United States and Hong Kong have documented serious environmental contamination with potentially toxic metals from crude e-waste recycling in a village located in southeast China. Recycling methods used in family-run workshops could pose a serious health risk to residents of […]
Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking today (Monday 31 March 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics in their fight against resistant superbugs, making […]
One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
Dr Anthony Sanchez, from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia is presenting […]
Fruit producers Chiquita and Dole have joined the now week-old recall of cantaloupes from Honduras amid a salmonella scare.
About five-dozen people have been sickened by the melons in 16 U. S. states and Canada.
The Food and Drug Administration says it is working with the company involved, Angropecuaria Montelibano, as well as the Honduran government, to […]