Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life canc...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
CHICAGO — Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and b...
Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
miamiherald.com | By FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of waste dumped at the Arroyo Barril port has made people nearby sick. After yea...
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.
Robert Koehler | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Zak Wachtendonk, who died in March, a month after his 30th birthday, was the son of a Vietnam vet who had been exposed to Agent Orange.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living
Lynette is what the doctors call a "thalidomide baby." There were other thalidomide babies on the floor, all around 10 years old, mostly limbless or with limbs that were profoundly deformed.
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living
According to the March of Dimes, 1 in 33 babies born in the US have a birth defect -- about twice as many as in China.
guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov in Falluja | Posted 11.13.2009 | World