Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as much as ten times the national averages, according…
Air pollution
If the U.S. healthcare system were a country, it would rank 13th in the world for greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. The study,…
Monsanto may not be the largest company in the world. Or the worst. But the St. Louis, Mo. biotech giant has become the poster child…
A French diplomat competing to be the world's top health official says a tiny international tax can help fill the World Health Organization's coffers, a…
A new study says that emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia…
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her. Stuck…
New research in the journal Science of the Total Environment has highlighted the dangerous effects of indoor pollution on human health, and has called for policies to…
“Dr. Hyman, I grew up following the guidelines of the Food Pyramid,” writes this week’s house call. “Now the guidelines keep changing. What about these…
Hillary Clinton approved the construction in South Africa of the world's two largest coal-fired power-plants, and helped them get Export-Import Bank financing (U.S. taxpayer backing);…
Only 29% published in journal in two years, 13% on registry Dissemination varies widely among 51 academic medical centers One-third of clinical trials conducted at…
They're making fuel from thin air at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. For the first time, researchers there have directly converted carbon dioxide from…
Moody, tired, or gaining weight? It could be your thyroid. Of course there are many underlying factors that could contribute to these frustrating symptoms such…