Toy Tests Find Lead, Other Toxins
Lead Found In Children's Toy Tests. Even with revised laws banning certain chemicals and lowering lead limits in toys, a public interest group has found that some toys being sold at popular retailers violate current mandates. A significant issue given that we are in the midst of the heaviest shopping season of the year. The … [Read more...] about Toy Tests Find Lead, Other Toxins
In Tests, Phthalates Worsen Skin Allergies
Dangerous Phthalates Exacerbate Dermatitis. Dangerous, plastic-softening chemicals called phthalates have been found to exacerbate dermatitis in lab tests with mammals. In laboratory tests with newborn male mice exposed to DEHP—a type of phthalate—through their mothers, it was found that the baby mice developed more serious skin … [Read more...] about In Tests, Phthalates Worsen Skin Allergies
Breast Cancer Patients Inaccurate Tests
Faulty Tests Kept Cancer Patients From Getting Appropriate Treatment. Faulty cancer tests might be keeping some breast cancer patients from getting appropriate treatment. The American Cancer Society expected nearly 180,000 patients to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in the U.S. in 2007. Tests help determine whether women … [Read more...] about Breast Cancer Patients Inaccurate Tests
Toxic FEMA Trailer Tests Set to Start After Long Delays
FEMA Trailer Test For Formaldehyde. Finally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is ready to start testing trailers provided to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for dangerous levels of formaldehyde. Harvey Johnson, FEMA's deputy administrator, told a Senate Committee yesterday that test on 500 occupied FEMA trailers … [Read more...] about Toxic FEMA Trailer Tests Set to Start After Long Delays
FEMA Trailer Tests Detect More Formaldehyde Than First Thought
FEMA Trailer Emit Formaldehyde Toxins. Travel trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as temporary homes for Hurricane Katrina victims are emitting far more toxic formaldehyde than previously thought. Recently revealed air quality test results indicate that as many as 95% of occupied FEMA trailers used by … [Read more...] about FEMA Trailer Tests Detect More Formaldehyde Than First Thought
Testimony: Feds not told about tests that exposed Vioxx dangers
Merck Did Not Inform Authorities About The Vioxx Dangers. Merck & Co. did not inform federal authorities about two clinical trials in which users of the painkiller Vioxx were more likely to die than people given a placebo, jurors in the first Vioxx liability case to go to trial in California were told Wednesday. Dr. … [Read more...] about Testimony: Feds not told about tests that exposed Vioxx dangers
NYC Hospital Fails to Tell of Cancer Tests
NYC Hospital Didn't Inform Hundreds Of Women Of Cancer Tests. A New York City hospital admits that it didn't inform hundreds of women of their abnormal results on a cancer-screening test. An emergency review of all Pap smear tests at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx since late 2003 showed that 307 women were never … [Read more...] about NYC Hospital Fails to Tell of Cancer Tests
