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In Time for Valentine's Day, a Riveting, True "Love" Story: POISONED LOVE -- A Memoir by Melanie Cane

In 1993, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin, wrote a front page story for New York Newsday about Melanie Cane, a young, troubled psychiatrist, who "let love take her too far" by poisoning her former boyfriend, also a psychiatrist. Now, 16 years later, Melanie tells her sid...

Lead Poisoned Family Reaches Two Million and Fifty Thousand Dollar Settlement of Lawsuit

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael Stewart Frankel Law Firm in New York City, recently settled a protracted lead poisoning litigation for the sum of Two Million and Fifty Thousand Dollars against the New York City Housing Authority. The suit entitled Wendy Robles, and her four minor...

Worse Than Love Canal - A Town Poisoned by Corporate Greed

Trial Begins this Week in Fort Worth, Texas in an Effort to Prove that a Texas Railroad Illegally Burned Ties Releasing Toxins in the Air, Destroying a Town Hundreds of Residents Suffer From Cancer and Dozens of Babies Have Been Born With Birth Defects NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNe...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

That the notorious US Central Intelligence Agency mounted innumerable attempts to kill its bete noire, Cubas Fidel Castro, is well known . Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has indeed been resourceful, even if they came to grief every time. Castro has already turned 80. Still the recen...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

More and more literally devastating evidence of global warming keeps coming up from across the world. A glacier in Norway is shrinking fast and toxic Californian// seawaters are killing marine life in their thousands. Global warming continues to wreak havoc. A couple of days ago it was report...

40 People in Orissa Taken Ill After Consuming Poisoned Fish

Kendrapada: At least 40 people including nine children fell ill after consuming poisoned dead fish// from a pond in Orissa's Kendrapada district, police said Friday. Residents of Dashipur village, some 45 km from the district headquarters of Kendrapada and 70 km from the state capital, Bhuba...

Salmonella Poisoned Frozen Pasta Hit Six

In Adelaide, Frozen pasta (such as frozen Beef Ravioli and Ravioli de Brodo products) caused salmonella poisoning in six people //. The classical symptoms of Salmonella poisoning are severe vomiting and diarrhoea. South Australian Health Department public health director Kevin Buckett said d...

Call For Testing Of Poisoned Town: Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

Following detection of Alzheimer's disease in a former resident of the so-called poison town, a new survey calls for further testing of people // who reside in the Cornish town that was hit by water poisoning in 1988. The suggestion has been made in a Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiat...

Jharkhand Elephant may Have Been Poisoned

An eight-year-old elephant which died under mysterious circumstances not far from here may have been poisoned, officials say//. The animal died Tuesday in Huntar village, 45 km from Ranchi. Forest officials are awaiting an autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. But they suspect it was poiso...

United Kingdom House of Commons Safety Group Recommends Carbon Monoxide Screening by Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) to Reduce Misdiagnosis and Prevent Deaths

...s ambulances/crews returned to core duties earlier Prior to this study, London Ambulance crews had no way to accurately diagnose CO poisoned patients. With just five Rad-57s, the London Ambulance Service was able to diagnose and treat 83 patients with unsuspected CO poisoning in a year, wh...

If Your Child Says School Makes Him Sick - He Might Be Right

... The study reaffirms what the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) has been reporting since 2001. In several reports, beginning with poisoned Schools, CHEJ presented case studies of school aged children harmed by chemicals in their school environments and called on the federal government to...

FDA Touts Efforts to Enhance Food Safety

...d with the industrial chemical melamine imported from China; to jalapeno peppers from Mexico bearing the salmonella bacteria; to U.S.-produced spinach poisoned with the E. coli bacteria. The new report updates progress made since the FDA unveiled its Food Protection Plan in 2007. Titled Food Protection ...

Recent developments at Burnham Institute

...ght be a result of bad chemistry. Peroxiredoxin, a protein that protects cells from free-radical damage in the brain and elsewhere in the body, can be poisoned by nitric oxide via a chemical reaction called S-nitrosylation. This chemical reaction was found to occur in the brains of patients with Parkinson's d...

Federal Regulation Will Require Renovators to Work Safely with Lead-Paint

...nnecessarily, permanently losing IQ points as a result. The new regulation is an important first step towards preventing another generation from being poisoned by debris left behind after a remodeling job," stated Alliance for Healthy Homes Executive Director, Patrick MacRoy. While a positive step, EPA's fi...

Blood Test Catches Secret Smokers

...ning that only the heaviest smokers should set it off. Patients wonder why the alarm goes off, and "we can tell them that 10 percent of their blood is poisoned with carbon monoxide. That gets them in a conversation about preventing lung disease even if they don't have it," he said. Dr. Joseph DiFranza, a p...

Most comprehensive study of mercury in dental fillings begins

...s a major source of food. Thousands of people were poisoned to varying degrees, and many children born of moth...rom there, it entered the food chain again through poisoned fish and birds. As many as 20,000 people were poisoned and half of those died. The team at the University...

Palestinian Rival Leader Claims That Arafat Died of AIDS

...onfirmation of this from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his staff. Jibril said that earlier he had suspected that Israel had poisoned Arafat, who was being treated in Paris for a complex blood disorder, but when he met Abbas and his aides in Damascus, they told him that the French g...

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...ding imports from china in the form of food, drugs and other products which were found to contaminated. Thousands of animals in the United States were poisoned from pet food additives made in China, one of a series of incidents that have exposed lax controls in Beijing's food quality control system. "At ...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

...ng. In other words, if your eyes and ears are telling your brain two different things the brain will believe the ear and assume you have been poisoned and begin to make you feel sick until you vomit. Once you vomit the brain will assume you have removed the poison from your body (thats why you feel p...

Uganda Bans Plastic Bags, Still a Tough Battle Lies Ahead

...of the richest soil in Africa, but around the towns and villages it is laced with plastic. New strata are forming - a layer cake of polythene and poisoned soil, through which Uganda's rains can never percolate. In the slums and shanties buveera are breeding grounds for disease. With no mains wa...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

... A Pakistani channel ARY TV, has revealed that the champagne bottles which contained the weed killer that poisoned Pakistans former cricket coach Bob Woolmer, was in fact handed over to him by a person well known to him-bowling coach Mustaq Ahmed. The channel ...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

...article does raise concerns about whether there will be adequate staffing to carry out these new protocols. Child protection has become something of a poisoned chalice for pediatricians and pathologists, says the writer, as they are increasingly the target of complaints. Yet, says Professor Fleming: ...

US Consumers Warned Against Toxic Chinese Fish

...e country most people associate with the puffer fish, also known as blowfish, is Japan where it is called "fugu". In Japan about 100 to 200 people get poisoned by eating puffer fish every year, and about half of them die. A restaurant meal of fugu in Japan is expensive, and not only because of the fis...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...alciparum degrades the hemoglobin in the red cell, producing a toxic byproduct known as heme, which the parasite then crystallizes so that it wont be poisoned by it. Eventually, however, an infected person can die from cerebral hemorrhages or anemia that are consequences of red cell infection. Natur...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

...the enzyme NADPH oxidase, which in turn initiates a process of oxidative stress that is fatal to neurons. Oxidative stress occurs when cells are poisoned by highly reactive forms of oxygen. Previously, it had been assumed that oxidative stress in neurons was initiated primarily by mitochondria, which pr...

Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths

...y Thursday, prompting more than 500 protestors, who said he had been slowly poisoned to death by mercury contamination, to block roads and demand an autopsy to ...n Lever Ltd) chose to hide safety information from the workers and wilfully poisoned them." Mercury is a nerve poison that can cause subtle to severe long...

Mystery illness takes 18 lives in Panama

...ling Lisinopril tablets from pharmacies, hospitals and private clinics across Panama as scientists are testing the drug for toxic agents that may have poisoned 30 people.” “The cause is still not completely confirmed,” Alleyne told a news conference late on Friday. “We decided as a safety precaution to wit...

False Dietary Habits Gives Way To Food Poisoning Risk

...e, others don’t and therefore lead to risk of cross-contamination. Some people don’t even know that they are at a risk of developing food being poisoned by the use of dirty sponges and cross-contamination – said Melanie Leech, FDF director general. FDF was constantly working to reduce food hygien...

Making a mocktail of chemical cocktail in children’s blood

...rooctanoic acid (PFOA), comparatively newer in use. According to Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence, 'Our children are being poisoned every day by toxic chemicals that surround them at home, school and play. It is common to expect adults to be more contaminated by harmful chemicals t...

Kids Fall Ill After Consuming Ricin-Contaminated Castor Beans in China

...northwest China's Shaanxi Province were apparently poisoned by ricin early on Thursday. //The state media reported that the children were poisoned by ricin, which was found in the castor beans that...trate of the county, Li Xiaojing said that all the poisoned students were taking part in a bean planting activ...

UK children getting high on binge drinking

...disease including cirrhosis, mental behavior disorders and the toxic effects of drinking when teenagers and children have drunk so much that they have poisoned themselves. The latest official figures released to the Liberal Democrats show that the number of young admitted to hospital with alcohol-related ...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...bout 120 miles southeast. Five people were killed and 10,000 evacuated. But the Chinese authorities announced only last week that the Songhua had been poisoned with 100 tons of benzene. The state media have criticized local officials for reacting too slowly and not telling the public the truth in time. En...

The romantic legacy of an AIDS victim ended up in tragedy

...o preferred to end their miseries instead of dying a little of humiliation everyday. In an act driven// by social ostracism, a 29-year-old man first poisoned to death his 25-year-old wife and then hanged himself in the Durgapur industrial town of south Bengal's Burdwan district, near Kolkata. Probir ...