Toxic Term And Paper

This is an article by Kelly Burke (Consumer Affairs Reporter) that was recently published in The Sydney Morning Herald – Australia.INCREASING numbers of unsuspecting Australians are having their mouths filled with cheap dental prosthetics from unregulated overseas laboratories, some of which are believed to contain toxic heavy metals.Lead, nickel, cadmium and beryllium were being added to ceramic-covered prosthetics by manufacturers in many Asian countries, said the president of the Oral Read more

We all have to fight bugs. Let me correct myself. Those of us who have ever done any sort of gardening have definitely had to deal with those pesky critters. Most of us try to find the best bug repellant and exterminator we can find and just try to avoid making our plants and/or veggies toxic. Dealing with bugs in your garden can be a tremendous head-ache, and I am not judging anybody. However, I just want to bring to light a method of controlling bugs which sounds very environmentally Read more

Recently, gout has inundated the business and health news. The big stories are about US Federal Drug Administration’s approvals of new uric acid lowering drugs for gout and hyperuricemia. Scientists at John Hopkins University also made the news claiming to have found the “gout gene.” Population studies indicate that there is an alarming worldwide increase of gout, and the pharmaceutical companies see a potential billion-dollar a year market in developing new uric acid lowering drugs. Read more