Stalled Health Tests Leave Storm Trailers in Limbo
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Three months after FEMA halted the sale of trailers to hurricane survivors over possible formaldehyde risks, none of the 56,000 occupied units have been tested.
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Residents question why a new flood prevention scheme failed its first proper test.
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The American Medical Association is concerned, but says more research is needed before a definitive statement can be made.
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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More than a year after President Bush unveiled a plan for coping with a pandemic flu outbreak, the government still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak.
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Watching for changes in the inner eyewall of a hurricane may help forecasters overcome one of their most perplexing challenges: predicting sudden strengthening or weakening.
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Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.
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After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes
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Stress tests aimed at detecting blocked arteries in patients may miss more than half the cases of early heart disease, US researchers reported on Tuesday.
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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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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Jennifer Sneed was packed and ready for the trip to a hospital to have her baby this week, but she wasn't ready for a snowstorm.
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Headed into the 2008 election season, Christian conservatives are weary. Their movement has lost iconic leaders and the Republican presidential field is uninspiring. But they may have found hope in a trailer on the campus of Bell Shoals Baptist Church.
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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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Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A US study shows stress tests do not adequately diagnose patients with latent atherosclerosis --hardening of the arteries that leads to heart disease.
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Stress tests aimed at detecting  blocked arteries in patients may miss more than half the cases  of early heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.