Exposure at Germ Lab Reignites a Public Health Debate
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A national debate has erupted over whether the rapid expansion in work with dangerous pathogens is adequately regulated and scientifically justified.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Environmental and health groups say the presence of dozens of industrial chemicals in 13 Mainers who volunteered for a study underscores the need for new policies to protect the public from potential toxins found in everyday consumer products.
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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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A study suggests that a virulent drug-resistant bacterium spreading in hospitals and nursing homes may be twice as common as once thought.
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A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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(HealthDay News) -- Child-care centers are often breeding grounds for germs.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests. Yet few U.S. hospitals do it, and many fight efforts to require it. Why?
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The microbes within us could explain rising allergy rates.
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Prolonged exposure to a germ killer widely used in industry and in household and personal care products, stunts the growth of developing nerves in the brains of rats, according to new research.
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One of the biggest indicators of a person&#39;s health risks can be found simply by asking grandma and grandpa a few questions. But although most Americans believe that knowing their family health history can
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Could that ancient practice of bleeding patients really have done some good? A scientist says new research on how germs thrive in the body suggests it just may have &#151; for some people.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.