U.S. to do health tests on Katrina victims' trailers
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Federal health experts will begin  testing for formaldehyde in trailers provided to people  displaced by Hurricane Katrina after complaints of health  problems, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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By Traci Watson and Andrea Stone  NASA officials said Wednesday that they will review medical and mental-health screenings of the astronaut corps in response to allegations that astronaut Lisa Nowak tried to kill a woman she regarded as her romantic rival.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--HARRISON COUNTY -- Investigators checking a complaint of a missing purse believe a suspect posed as a FEMA inspector to steal it from an elderly woman's FEMA trailer.
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The Bush administration plans to screen thousands of people who work with charities and nonprofit organizations that receive U.S. Agency for International Development funds to ensure they are not connected with individuals or groups associated with terrorism, according to a recent Federal Register...
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 10--HARRISON COUNTY -- County leaders have given the green light to a new alternative-housing pilot program.   The plan is to provide FEMA trailer residents with safer and better-designed emergency homes.
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Those trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought to house Hurricane Katrina victims were at the center of the storm again yesterday -- and not in a way that's going to make folks at the beleaguered agency any happier.
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A presidential panel said yesterday that it is compiling a first-of-its-kind national survey to determine scientifically the extent of health-care problems for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they approved a new device that could help save the arms and legs of injured soldiers and trauma victims.
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U.S. health officials are beginning to check all shipments of toothpaste coming from China, following reports of tainted products in other countries, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems that may be linked to elevated levels of formaldehyde gas released in FEMA-provided trailers, lawmakers said today.
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New Orleans' coroner said Thursday he has the material he needs to present findings to a grand jury that will consider indictments against a doctor and two nurses accused of killing patients in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.
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Federal health officials have confirmed that high levels of formaldehyde gas pose health risks to hurricane victims housed in 38,000 government trailers on the Gulf Coast, and will recommend that occupants be moved before temperatures rise this spring and summer, Bush administration officials dis...
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The new test takes less than 12 hours, federal health officials said Monday.
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For the next two days, the city will test new evacuation plans and emergency response strategies meant to prevent the widespread confusion, especially among the poor, that accompanied the approach of Hurricane Katrina last year.
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WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. Relatives of more than a dozen travelers who were hurt when their tour bus drifted off a highway kept vigil today at hospitals in Tennessee and Arkansas.
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Britain is to test thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War who have suffered a range of unexplained ailments for the possible presence of depleted uranium in their bodies, a report said.