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of botulinum toxin-term, one of the most powerful neurotoxins known to man. Produced by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, cause muscle paralysis and in extreme cases even cause death. This is usually done in cases of...
By Anne Peterson • November 21, 2009 Dear Anne: I am writing to provide accurate information about the city's Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Ordinance. The lead ordinance utilizes de-minimus levels to assess lead hazard...
Health Departments are servants of the drug company pawns of the CDC, of the meat and dairy industries, of landlords. Fast Food Pawns: Across the US, many health departments ignore because of the power of money the many...
Submitted by Ramona Bates MD on Nov 20th, 2009 It has been a week since Nicholas Brown, 18, attended the Phi Delta Lamda party which later resulted in his trip to the hospital emergency room. Both the University of Arkansas and...
According to Fred Pritzker, a national food safety lawyer, a recent study of long-term, negative health effects of food poisoning should be a powerful catalyst for more meaningful food safety reform. “This study amplifies the...
WASHINGTON Staff Reports Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., joined by a Wilton family, called for stronger food safety provisions Wednesday at a session of a Senate committee, along with the development of consistent federal guidelines...
Updated Thursday, November 19, 2009 ; 10:51 AM The Southern Appalachian Labor School presented several meetings. Story by Erin Barnett WHIPPLE -- Researchers from the Southern Appalachian Labor School held a meeting Wednesday,...
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City; 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and 3Division of Biomedical...
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have solved one of the great environmental disaster riddles of the last 30 years -- where did the arsenic that has poisoned between two and 25 million people in...
Thanksgiving is an opportunity to share a meal with loved ones, but it is also a time when small mistakes in the kitchen can lead to foodborne illness. Dr. Ben Chapman, food safety specialist and assistant professor of food...
