Academics urge for tougher action on additives
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Â· Consumers should come before industry, says letterÂ· Warning that watchdog is at risk of losing credibility
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One of the first researchers to link the popular prescription painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex to heart problems blamed aggressive advertising for escalating public health risks and called for enabling the government to require better clinical trials to prevent future drug disasters.
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Top environmental groups warned Tuesday at an international conference on climate change that governments must work more aggressively to cut greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
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Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe.
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The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.
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Experts at a seminar yesterday urged the government to incorporate the HIV/Aids issue into primary and secondary textbooks to create awareness about the disease at the grassroots level.
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Dr. Marcia Angell's case against drug companies and their business practices is tough, persuasive and troubling.
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Lignin is tough stuff, but Washington University has a way to turn at least some of it into fuel.
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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Climate scientists tell a conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednesday.
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It is redoubling efforts to promote its product as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
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Air fresheners and aerosols can damage of the health of babies and their mothers, warn researchers.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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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 Douglas Fischer  Flame retardants are generating some heat of their own as concerned researchers and lawmakers note rising levels in the environment and step up efforts to ban them from everyday household products.
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A team of researchers from Cornell University, in a study to be summarized in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found pungent onion varieties like New York Bold, Western Yellow