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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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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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold trailers to victims of the 2005 hurricanes at prices that range from $1  to $20,000, under inconsistent policies  that prompted a temporary ban on all trailer sales, according to a new government report.
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Technology at airports to check  luggage for bombs is now being used by the government in tests  for screening cargo loaded aboard passenger planes, officials  said on Tuesday.
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The city is showing signs of rebirth nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, but a lack of health care and other services and a dearth of affordable housing could stymie a full recovery, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Secure Freight Initiative will see cargo scanned for nuclear and radiological threats before it sets off for the U.S.
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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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Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons.
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An updated diagnostic test can   simultaneously detect whether someone is suffering from an H5   strain of bird flu or seasonal influenza, its developer said on   Tuesday.
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A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.
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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.
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U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Pima County health officials are testing five people from Tucson who were co-passengers with a man now quarantined and under treatment in Denver for a rare, dangerous strain of tuberculosis.
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A blood substitute the military wants to test on civilian trauma victims is urgently needed to save lives on the battlefield in places like Iraq, a Navy official told federal advisers Thursday.
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US health officials are asking Americans this Thanksgiving to try to find out what their family medical history is, as this can have a big impact on an individual&#39;s health and longevity.
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A demonstration project by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking rapid H.I.V. testing to city streets.
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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.