Aug 242012
 
Brain Eating Organism Found in Louisiana Water Supply

  Last year, two Louisiana residents died from a single-celled organism that thrives in warm, freshwater after using tap water for flushing their sinuses. The amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, can cause primary amoebic meningoecephalitis (PAM), which is fatal in 99 per cent of cases. Both victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had [...More...]

Aug 172012
 
Studies Examine Health Consequences of Fukushima Meltdown in Japan

The results of two studies in the August 15 issue of JAMA report on the psychological status of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan several months after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and the amount of internal radiation exposure among residents of a city north of the power plant that [...More...]

Aug 112012
 
Vietnam, US begin historic Agent Orange cleanup

From deformed infants to grandparents with cancer, families near Vietnam's Danang Airbase have long blamed the toxic legacy of war for their ills. Now after a decades-long wait, a historic "Agent Orange" clean-up is finally beginning. The base was a key site in the US defoliant program during the Vietnam War, and much of the [...More...]