NewsRack: 'Toxics' news in 'Environmental Health-National' topic for user flenvcenter

TRAIN Act Colossal Waste of Money, Attempt to Delay Regulations	21.9.2100	Union of Concerned Scientists
The House is expected to take up a bill today, called the TRAIN Act, which would waste $2 million of taxpayer money by mandating redundant cost-benefit analyses of environmental and health regulations.
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They discovered the cure for...	22.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Before the term vaccination was coined, millions died each year from these deadly diseases.
Roadshow: Why does BART make me sick? Can I text a BART cop for stealthy help?	22.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: News
Electric vehicle chargers are coming to new BART stations in Fremont, Milpitas and San Jose.
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Supes give San Mateo County the OK to hire 25 people to handle Obamacare benefits	22.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: News
To implement President Obama's Affordable Care Act, San Mateo County will hire 25 people to help process the expected flood of new applications for new benefits.
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Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China	22.5.2013	International Herald Tribune Asia Pacific
Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China
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Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland fined $142,970 for safety violations	22.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Local News
Alta Bates Summit plans to appeal penalty for failing to properly isolate patients with infectious diseases.
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Less Sleep For Teens Means Higher Risk For Car Crashes	21.5.2013	NPR News
New, young drivers are much more likely to have an accident if they're short on sleep, researchers say. And teenage drivers are far more impaired than adults when facing an equivalent lack of sleep.
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California: Treatments for prostate and breast cancer vary widely, depending on where people live, new study shows	21.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
Variation in surgery rates may indicate patients don't participate enough in decision-making, researchers say.
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Courageous Kids cancer-free, at least for a day	21.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley
Every young person with cancer looks forward to the day when they are free of the disease. For one day a year, Courageous Kids Day gives them a chance to check their illness at the door for a day of fun at Great America theme park.
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May 21 Readers' letters: Dental health care and Willow Glen's Three Creeks trestle	21.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Letters
Letters from Mercury News readers.
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Well: No Quick or Easy Choices	21.5.2013	New York Times Health
Well: No Quick or Easy Choices
Minnesota lakes anything but pristine, PCA testers find	20.5.2013	MinnPost
This article was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism . On a midsummer morning last year at popular Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Mark Ferrey dipped a brown glass bottle into the water. His hands were gloved, he had drunk no caffeine, he wore no insect repellent. The slightest contamination would ruin the sample. Below the sparkling surface swam muskies and walleye. Triathletes would be swimming there the next day. But Ferrey, a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency researcher, knew his sample would most likely turn up a cocktail of chemicals at trace levels. According to results released last week, the Nokomis water was contaminated that day with a component of plastic, ibuprofen, a disinfectant used in hand soap, an antibiotic used on swine, a breakdown product of cocaine, an antidepressant, a fungicide and a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Some of the Nokomis cocktail’s most worrisome ingredients, the plastic component bisphenol A (BPA) and the ...
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How China chokes its neighbors	20.5.2013	MinnPost
FUKUOKA, Japan — When the Chinese smog arrives, the medical masks come in fashion. Every few months, this city of 1.5 million people in southern Japan, not far from mainland China, gets a dose of lung clogging courtesy of its neighbor. Coal factories in the cities of Tianjin and Beijing , combined with the growing numbers of automobiles, pump out toxins that drift westward across the East China Sea. They hit Japan and, to a lesser extent, South Korea . The most recent air pollution crisis came in February, when a whitish gray blanket of smog fell over Fukuoka. The city government put out an advisory on its early warning system — the first in Japan, started that month — urging everybody, and especially infants and the elderly, to stay indoors and wear face masks outside. “There is concern among citizens over the health effects,” said Keiko Nabamuta, a city environment official. “Whenever this happens, we ask residents to stay indoors and avoid hanging their laundry outside,” a measure to ...
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Recent Climate Study Reveals Good And Bad News	20.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far...
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One healthful thing we love	19.5.2013	Seattle Times: Health
Free “Pesticide Free Zone” signs.
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Evidence lacking that Marines performed simple test that could have uncovered Lejeune toxins	19.5.2013	Star Tribune: Nation

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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply	19.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback	18.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups'	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl," followed by a surname and a burial date.
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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