Chemicals Blamed for Fume Problem ; Official: Improper Storage Led to Hospital Trips for 11 People
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By JOHN P. KELLY  KINGSTON - Improperly stored chemicals used in X-ray processing at South Shore Medical Center were blamed for sending 11 people to the hospital with dizziness and nausea yesterday, a Kingston Board of Health member said.
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By Staff Reports  A woman who was overcome by a leaking dry-cleaning chemical and fell unconscious into a chemical puddle Thursday was decontaminated at the site and taken to a hospital.
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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By Robert Crowe, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Four people were taken to hospitals after a 55-gallon drum of sulfuric acid exploded Monday night at a southeast Houston chemical plant.   The fire started about 8:20 p.m. at SET Environmental Inc., 5738 Cheswood.
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In a scathing report on 11 deaths last year at the District's St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally ill, an advocacy group for the disabled told city officials yesterday that medical neglect resulted in "needless pain and suffering" for most of the patients "and may well have contributed to...
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High levels of carbon monoxide forced the evacuation of a day care center Friday and sent at least eight people to hospitals.
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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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HOUSEHOLD chemicals, including bleach, disinfectant and cleaning fluid, have been blamed for the huge surge in childhood asthma in Britain.
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Household chemicals are being linked to a rise in the number of children with asthma. A study of 7,000 youngsters has resulted in signs that bleach, paint stripper and carpet cleaners used in the home can lead to the condition.
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Firefighters are called to a Queen's University science building after reports of fumes.
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Hospitals accused of keeping thousands of seriously ill patients in 'holding patterns'
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A dozen people hospitalized from injuries they got when a chemical plant exploded were released Thursday, while investigators kept residents away from the neighborhood riddled with homes and businesses blasted off their foundations.
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Many of the government-supplied  trailers housing thousands of people displaced by Hurricane  Katrina contain potentially dangerous levels of the chemical  formaldehyde, U.S. federal health officials said on Thursday.
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By Donna Littlejohn DAILY BREEZE  For years, San Pedro residents like Janet Gunter have lived with the uneasy knowledge that operating close to their neighborhoods are storage facilities that handle dangerous substances that could spill, release toxins or even explode.
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Mobile homes provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 contain unsafe levels of cancer-causing chemicals and the 39,000 families still living in them should be relocated as soon as possible, health officials said Thursday.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.