Red delicious, Northern Spy apples have most antioxidants, chemists find
Some apples might do a better job of keeping the doctor away than others, according to Canadian researchers who analyzed eight popular varieties of the fruit. Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Ida Red, they say, pack a greater wallop of disease-fighting antioxidants than other apples studied. The researchers, led by Rong Tsao, Ph.D., of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Guelph, Ontario, a...Fact Sheet on Polonium-210 - The Substance That Killed Former Russian Spy
Two UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) physicians with special expertise in radiation poisoning have compiled a fact sheet on polonium-210, the substance implicated// in the death of a former Russian spy. Benjamin C. Smith, M.D., is a nuclear engineer, and Ziad N. Kazzi, M.D., is a medical toxicologist. They are in UAB’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Kazzi, co-director of the U...Italian Who Met Former KBG Spy is Arrested
An Italian, Mario Scaramella who met - ex-KGB agent - Alexander Litvinenko on the day the Russian became ill from radiation poisoning was arrested.// He was arrested on Sunday in Naples while returning from London and taken to Rome, the man's father, Amedeo Scaramella said. Scaramella, who is the first person connected to the poisoning case to be arrested, met Litvinenko a...