Agent Orange (AO) was previously identified as a significant risk factor for biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in prostate cancer patients. In this study, we determined the ...
Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...
CHICAGO -- Exposure to the ubiquitous dioxin chemicals was linked with thyroid dysfunction, a new study found. Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) data, researchers led ...
Prompted in large part by concern over dioxin emissions, cities around the globe have been tightening regulations on municipal incinerators. Largely ignored have been rural households that burn their ...
In humans, acute poisoning by high doses of dioxin almost systematically triggers a dramatic skin disease termed chlorine, which may persist for years (Yamamoto and Tokura, 2003). In addition, ...
The government has spent many millions of dollars in recent decades cleaning up sites contaminated with dioxin and, in extreme cases, relocating residents of entire neighborhoods tainted by the toxin.
In December of 1982, the people of Times Beach, Mo., were forced to abandon their town forever because the Environmental Protection Agency found high levels of a chemical called dioxin. At the time, ...
In 2004 the current Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, suffered a severe case of dioxin poisoning. In order to understand how the human body reacts to remove the poison, researchers have analyzed ...
It does seem a strange choice. Unprecedented, even - the recent confirmed poisoning of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin appears to be the first recorded case of a human being ...
US adds $130M to dioxin cleanup project at Vietnam airport, one of world's most contaminated regions
An additional US$130 million has been added to a dioxin decontamination project at Bien Hoa Airport in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam, bringing the total funding to $430 million. During a ...
To come up with “win-win” solutions to the garbage crisis the country is facing, adopting new technologies that will use trash to generate electricity has been resorted to. But doing so “may end up ...
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