Health
Yes, you should clean that water bottle, and here's how
Does your water bottle only get washed once or twice a weekâor even less?
Mar 21, 2024
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News tagged with metal particles
Health
Toxic metal particles can be present in cannabis vapes even before the first use
Vapes have often been heralded as a "safer" way to consume either nicotine or cannabis, where legal to do so. But the devices present their own suite of risks that are slowly being revealed as they undergo increasing research ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Neurotoxin BMAA found in dust from Great Salt Lake
In a startling discovery, researchers have identified a chronic neurotoxin known as BMAA in dust particles from the Great Salt Lake's dried lakebed. This toxin, linked to neurodegenerative illnesses, has become a significant ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Medical research
Ultrasmall metal oxide radiosensitizers for cancer radiation therapy
Today, treatment methods are available for cancer that complement each other. Radiation therapy is frequently used, and can be combined with surgery and chemotherapy, for example. Although treatment with ionizing radiation ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Testing new cancer treatment which could banish chemotherapy
Current treatment for head and neck cancer can have debilitating side-effects, but new research combining robotics, nanoparticles, ultrasound and lasers could treat it without chemo- or radiotherapy.
Oct 2, 2018
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Medications
Maker of kids' Tylenol pleads guilty over metal particles
A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal criminal charge that it sold over-the-counter infant's and children's liquid medicine containing metal particles.
Mar 10, 2015
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Health
Kids' risks from toxic metals in dirt downplayed using standard tools
Current approaches may be underestimating the risks posed to children by toxic metals that they are exposed to while playing outdoors, according to Japanese researchers. The researchers used a new approach that they developed ...
Jun 25, 2014
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Medical research
New effort to find why replacement hips and knees go bad
A Case Western Reserve University chemistry professor has begun imbedding magnetic nanoparticles in the toughest of plastics to understand why more than 40,000 Americans must replace their knee and hip replacements annually.
Feb 4, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Link between common environmental contaminant and rapid breast cancer growth
Studies by researchers at Dominican University of California show that breast cancer cells become increasingly aggressive the longer they are exposed to small concentrations of cadmium, a heavy metal commonly found in cosmetics, ...
Apr 23, 2012
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Medications
Hospitals face drug price-gouging
(AP) -- A severe drug shortage is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can't get them any other way.
Sep 23, 2011
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