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...

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Poisoned in Medical Dictionary

Poison

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Mercury Poisoning

..... harmful effects of mercury poisoning have been linked ... Learn the Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning & What You an Do if You Have Been poisoned ... What is mercury poisoning ? ... 80 percent of mercury poisoning symptoms. ... Do you think you have candida? Maybe its really mercury ...

Botulism

... a paralytic illness, is rare, but can cause serious, paralyzing ... foodborne botulism ... Foodborne botulism can affect a great number of people poisoned by ... Botulism can be controlled with awareness of the types of botulism , conditions affecting the growth of the toxin-producing spores, symp...

Poisoned in Biological News

Lead-based consumer paint remains a global public health threat

...oo little attention is being given to correcting the problem in many parts of the world," says Clark. "Meanwhile, thousands of children continue to be poisoned by the metal, setting them up for life-threatening problems later in life. "Our studies have shown that when comparing the prices of the same size...

Restoring a natural root signal helps to fight a major corn pest

... insecticide was directly applied on the seeds, but during sowing it was unintentionally emitted as dust from abraded seeds, contaminated flowers, and poisoned 330 million honey-bees. "Instead of using insecticides, the use of natural enemies of the corn rootworm could be much more environmentally friendl...

Urban water ecology at the ESA annual meeting

...ys, and larval mosquitoes can eat like kings. To make matter worse, it's possible that other aquatic insects that would feed on mosquito larvae are poisoned in sewage overflow water. Many aquatic insects breathe underwater through gill-like structures, so excess nitrogen and phosphorous could be toxic to t...

Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa

...reves, action can be taken in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP). In an attempt to protect their livestock, cattlemen there have reportedly poisoned and shot predators in large numbers, stirring fears that the king of beasts may be driven to extinction in Uganda. But these pastoralists haven't ...

Integrated Fuel Technologies gets worldwide license for Argonne-developed Diesel DeNOx Catalyst

...fuel that will soon be required for off-road use and is now mandated for on-highway use actually extends the life of the catalyst technology, which is poisoned by the sulfur," Marshall said. The Diesel DeNOx Catalyst is a low-cost technology given the usable lifetime of the catalyst, which is about 400,00...

Study shows immigrant children are at increased risk of lead poisoning

...n may face additional lead threats in their home countries. Of the 800 lead poisoned children requiring home investigations in 2006, Health Department staff ide... 14% of the citys children were born outside the United States, 18% of lead poisoned children with lead levels requiring home investigation were foreign-born. ...

Lipids in the brain an important factor for Alzheimer's disease?

...ary stages in the formation of plaques is the formation of the protofibril form of the A -peptide. Protofibrils are toxic for brain cells, causing the poisoned cells to die off and leading to memory loss. This is why these protofibrils are considered to be the main cause of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease...

Science casts doubt on famous British murder case

...s wife. This cant be Cora Crippen, Foran said. Were certain of that. For nearly a century, Crippen, a homeopathic physician, was thought to have poisoned his flamboyant and domineering wife with an obscure toxin, dismembered her body and buried little more than tissue in his London cellar. Crippen was l...

Extra gene copies were enough to make early humans' mouths water

...n when you look at modern human hunter-gatherers, meat is a relatively small fraction of their diet. They cooperate with language, use nets; they have poisoned arrows, even, and still it's not that easy to hunt meat. To think that, two to four million years ago, a small-brained, awkwardly bipedal animal could...

Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial 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 won't be poisoned by it. Eventually, however, an infected person can die from cerebral hemorrhages or anemia that are consequences of red cell infection. Natural ...