Join the Blue Ribbon Online

Free Speech Campaign!

 

RECALL CPSC:  Rinnai Wall Furnaces Due to Carbon Monoxide Hazard

2005 Gulf-Coast Hurricane Response: OSHA Gas and Vapor Monitoring Data

A $36 million federal study of 5,000 Canadians will document the extent of chemical pollution in the body

A guide to household toxins

A preliminary investigation into the use of biosensors to screen stomach contents for selected poisons and drugs.

AAAAI: Seasonal Allergy Patients Also Bugged by Non-Allergic Irritants

Abstracts of European Association of Poison Centers and Clinical Toxicologists 

Acute effects of some volatile organic compounds emitted from water-based paints.

Adapting an ambient monitoring program to the challenge of managing emerging pollutants in the San Francisco Estuary

Ailing NY Ground Zero workers demand more help

Air Pollution and Heart Rate Variability: Effect Modification by Chronic Lead Exposure

Air pollution kicks men where it  counts.

Air Pollution Linked To Cardiovascular Risk Indices In Healthy Young Adults

Air Pollution Shrinks Fetus Size, Study Suggests

Air pollution, oxidative stress and dietary supplementation: a review

Air Quality In Airplanes: Blame Ozone And Natural Oils On Skin

Air Quality Study: Mercury and Formaldehyde Found In Houston, Texas Air

Air remains toxic for students riding school buses

Ambient Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight in Connecticut and Massachusetts

Ambient Formaldehyde Levels and Allergic Disorders Among Japanese Pregnant Women

Ambient Particulate Pollutants in the Ultrafine Range Promote Early Atherosclerosis and Systemic Oxidative Stress.

Annoyance due to air pollution in Europe

Antioxidant enzyme induction: a new protective approach against the adverse effects of diesel exhaust particles

Aquatic Non-Scents: Repercussions of water pollutants that mute smell 

Arthritis and Pain. Neurogenic origin of joint pain

As adults, excess weight may render drugs toxic

Association between Agent Orange and birth defects: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Association of Environmental Toxicants and Conduct Disorder in U.S. Children: NHANES 2001-2004

Athletes are concerned about Beijing's air -- and with reason

Australia launches air cabin quality study

Avoidable Chemicals

Bad air linked to low birth weight

Be Good To Your Mother

Black Children Especially Vulnerable to Second-Hand Tobacco Smoke

Black, poor children face higher toxic air risks

Brain's Biggest Enemy

Budgie Toxins

California Considers Banning PFOA

Canadian University CMU Scent Free

Cancer causing chemical in the air

Car Talk tackles toxins in car cabins

Carbon monoxide may cause long-lasting heart damage-Toxic levels of gas can affect heart muscle

Case study of volatile organic compounds in indoor air of a house before and after repair where sick building syndrome occurred

Changes in different rat brain areas following intoxication with  nerve agents 

Chemical contained in liquid resin can be toxic

Chemical Safety and Health Conditions among Hungarian Hospital Nurses

Chemicals in Home a Big Smog Source

Chemicals Pose Health Crisis Regulators Fail to Address Hazards From Environmental Toxins

Chemicals Put 27,000 People a Year at Risk

Clean Indoor Air in Schools as Basic as Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

Cleaning agent tied to abnormalities

Cleaning Chemicals Can Be Risky For Indoor Air

Clock ticking for US nanotech companies

Cluster of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) associated with an oil field waste site: A cross sectional

Cognitive impairment and olfactory panic from occ.exposure to voc's

Combined Single-Drop and Rotating Drum Dustiness Test of Fine to Nanosize Powders Using a Small Drum

Contact allergy epidemics and their controls.

Controlled Exposures to Volatile Organic Compounds in Sensitive Groups

Counterintuitive Toxicity

Cumulative Lead Dose and Cognitive Function in Adults

Curcumin - antidote to lead poisoning

Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor Environmental Quality

Danger:  Chemical Hazards

Dell Children's Hospital kid-friendly, green

Detect and Protect Project

Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals

Do carbamates cause polyneuropathy?

Do you know what you're breathing at 30,000 feet?

Docs Tongue-Tied on Treatment: Medical Doctors Withhold Information

DOSE~RESPONSE STUDY FOLLOWINGIN UTERO AND LACTATIONAL EXPOSURE TODI-(2-ETHYLHEXYL)-PHTHALATE (DEHP)

Drink Me I'm Toxic

Drug hypersensitivity: epidemiology and risk factors. 

Dying for a Home: Toxic Trailers Are Making Katrina Refugees

Effect of topically applied lipids on surfactant-irritated skin.

Enhanced mucosal cytokine production in inflammatory bowel disease.

Environmental Illnesses Haunt Some Who Covered 9/11

Environmental nonallergic rhinitis.

Environmental pollution reaches alarming level

Environmental stressors (salinity, heavy metals, H(2)O(2)) modulate expression of glutathione reductase (GR) gene from the intertidal copepod Tigriopus japonicus.

EPA Funded Research Explores Connection Between Respiratory Illnesses, Air Quality and Weather in New York City

EPA Tests For Toxic Fumes At Day Care Center

Exposure to Chemicals May Harm Young Brains

Exposure to diesel exhaust during commutes poses a serious public health risk

Exposure Response of Silicosis Mortality in Swedish Iron Ore Miners

FDA Issues Alert on Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent for Kidney Patients

FDA Warns Industry to Follow Law on Untested Ingredients

Findings on Katrina Trailers Went Undisclosed, Maker Says

George Mason University: Bicycles Welcome Here: Campus Culture Adapts to 'Greener' Mode of  Transportation

Getting the "baddest of the bad" toxins out of you

Glass baby bottles making comeback

Government of Canada Brings in Tough new Emission Standards on Smog-Producing Chemicals

Greenpeace on Chemicals

Handsome, Healthy Homes 

Hawaii Schools Could Receive $20.5 Million In New ‘Green’ Construction Grants

Health Effects of Construction Materials

Health effects of nonindustrial indoor air pollution

Health-related disparities: influence of environmental factors.

Healthy Homes Household Toxins

Help moms keep kids from toxic exposures

Hereditary Toxins Spur Scientific Concerns

Home air filters may improve elders' heart health

Hospital Study Shows Importance of Indoor Environment

Household antibacterial products generate chloroform

How to Reduce Chemical Contaminants in Your Home

How Toxic Is Your Body?

IAQ-Biological Organisms

Incense Burning May Expose People to Toxic Chemicals

Indoor Air Chemistry: Cleaning Agents, Ozone and Toxic Air Contaminants

Indoor Air in Homes Often Contaminated with Formaldehyde from Building Materials

Indoor Air Quality in Office Buildings: A Technical Guide

Indoor ultrafine particles and childhood asthma: exploring a potential public health concern

Inflammatory ointment from shea butter and hydro-alcoholic extract of Khaya senegalensis barks (Cailcederat)

In-flight toxic fume cases rise

Inhaled glutathione for the prevention of air pollution-related health effects: a brief review.

Into the Wilds of Oakland, Calif.

Intolerance to ambient odors at an early stage of pregnancy

Investigation of the detoxification mechanism of formaldehyde-treated tetanus toxin 

Is China's Pollution Poisoning Its Children?

Is there evidence that methyl heptine carbonate causes allergic contact dermatitis

Is Your Mattress Making You Sick?

It's time to push for healthy schools

Lifting the veil on toxic neighbors

Looking for Green building product info

Lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels are associated with Parkinson's disease.

Mammography Enters The Deadly Depths Of Deceit

Mechanisms Related to the Genotoxicity of Particles in the Subway and from Other Sources

MIT gas sensor is tiny, quick Energy-efficient device could quickly detect hazardous chemicals

Mortality Risk Associated with Short-Term Exposure to Traffic Particles and Sulfates

Multiple organochlorine pollution and the thyroid

Multivariate evaluation of VOCs in buildings where people with non-specific building-related symptoms perceive health problems and in buildings where they do not.

NANOTECHNOLOGY MATERIAL MAY BE THE NEW ASBESTOS

Nanotechnology: Really, really small stuff that's really big

Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures

National Report on Air Quality

Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy from Gd-med-contrast

Neurological disease common, survey finds

Neurotoxic effects in workers of the clinical thermometer manufacture plant. 

New chemical entities with decreased potential for adverse drug reactions 

New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week

New Report Links Toxic Pollution and Health Hazards as EPA Acts to Restrict Pollution Data

New research explains link between smoking and SIDS

NIOSH-Interim Guidance on Medical Screening of Workers Potentially Exposed to Engineered Nanoparticles

On a Sick Planet Hospitals Must Go Green

Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks

Oxidative stress associated with indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome-related symptoms among office workers in Taiwan.

Passengers on 116 UK flights report noxious gas fumes in cabin

Pilots 'being poisoned by their own aeroplanes'

Poisoned By Your Home

Pollution in air taints U.S. parks

Pollution Within

Preliminary studies on nasal decongestant activity from the seed of the shea butter tree, Butyrospermum parkii.

Psychosocial factors that aggravate the symptoms of sick house syndrome in Japan.

Questionnaire evaluation and risk factor identification for    nonallergic vasomotor rhinitis.

Recirculating Air Filtration Significantly Reduces Exposure to Airborne Nanoparticles

REGULATION FOR LIMITING OZONE EMISSIONS FROM INDOOR AIR CLEANING DEVICES

Relation between Cord Blood Mercury Levels and Early Child Development in a World Trade Center Cohort

Research Summary: Pollution In Homes

Researchers: Baking impacts Puget Sound

RISK OF 4,000 EVERYDAY CHEMICALS TO BE STUDIED

Road Pollution Blamed for Higher Allergy Risk in Kids

Routine screenings uncover hidden carbon monoxide poisoning

Safeguarding Kids from Environmental Hazards in Contemporary Pediatrics

Scientists Find Evidence of Link Between Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Health Symptoms

Scientists Lend Expertise to Green Chemistry Initiative

Scientists say toxic stew harming Canadians; tougher pollution laws needed

Second-Hand Smoke Bestows Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers

Sick building syndrome in relation to air exchange rate, CO(2), room temperature and relative air humidity in university computer classrooms: an experimental study

Sick buildings spurs air quality testing statewide

SICK SCHOOLS SYNDROME

Silver Spring sprouts "green" apartment building

Simulation of the detoxification of paracetamol using on-line electrochemistry/liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry.

Skin Exposure to Isocyanates: Reasons for Concern

Smog Can Make People Sick, Even Indoors

Societal Costs of Exposure to Toxic Substances: Economic and Health Costs of Four Case Studies That Are Candidates for Environmental Causation

Solvent Exposures Linked to Birth Defects in Babies of Male Printers

Some Chemicals Are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected

Some Devices Produce Ozone, Which Can Pose Health Risks; Agency Considers Safe Levels

Some ozone to go with your flight, sir?

State bans in-home ozone air purifiers, citing health risks

Students invent self powered toxic sensor

Study finds NSAID analgesics raise blood pressure

Study Links Air Pollution Particles, Heart Disease

Study links air pollution to blood clots in legs connection.

Study warns of health risk from ethanol.

Symptoms of mothers and infants related to total volatile organic compounds in household products

Synthetic chemicals can affect offspring

Systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and activation in clinically healthy children exposed to air pollutants.

Systemic inflammatory Response Syndrome

The arms race in hand soap leads to serious overkill

The dark side of dust:  Particles can contain flame retardant PBDE and may be dangerous

The Effect of Live Plants and Window Views of Green Spaces on Employee Perceptions of Job Satisfaction

The impact of new technologies on human population studies.

THE PRESENCE OF FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH SICK BUILDING SYNDROME IN NORTH AMERICAN ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS

There's something in the air, so see ya!

Those in power are poisoning children

Toward a global network for persistent organic pollutants in air: results from the GAPS study.

Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America 

Toxic Chemicals in Cars

Toxic chemicals pose threat

Toxic Existence 38% of the homes in America

Toxic Fumes impairing our ability to fly, say pilots

Toxic fumes in airliner cabins ignored by authorities

Toxic fumes on planes 'threaten thousands of passengers each year'

Toxic planes: what the airlines don't tell you

TOXIC REPORT CARD FOR BUSINESS PROPOSED 

Toxic Tour' takes in Los Angeles' dirty little secrets

Toxic Toys

Toxic Triangle: What's Causing Deaths Around Old Kelly AFB?

Toxins in the Home: Indoor Air Can Be Polluted Too

Transparent epoxy withstands extremes

Trials & Tribulations of Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards

Ultrafine and Respirable Particles in an Automotive Grey Iron Foundry

Ultra high frequency-electromagnetic field irradiation during pregnancy leads to an increase in erythrocytes micronuclei incidence in rat offspring.

Unusual cross-disciplinary meeting explores effects of environmental compounds on human development and reproduction

US Army gets French firm to burn nerve gas waste in Port Arthur, TX

Up to 24,000 deaths a year in California are linked to air pollution

Vehicle toxic gas emission to end next year

We Share the Air

Welcome aboard toxic airlines

What are these chemicals and what do they do?

When work gets up your nose

Work Area Measurements as Predictors of Personal Exposure to Endotoxin and Cotton Dust in the Cotton Textile Industry

Working to become a barrier-free university. Mandate is to ensure that all students participate in the academic and co-curricular U of T experience