Art safety - preventing lead poisoning from art materials
Healthfacts - March 1, 1992
Virtually all children and about half of all adult Americans are exposed to art and craft materials at school or as home hobbyists. Many of the materials involve substances associated with significant health hazards. Chief among them is lead poisoning, according to indust... (Read More)
State labor law legislation enacted in 1991
Monthly Labor Review - January 1, 1992, by Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson is a State standards advisor in the Division of State Standards Programs, Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. David A. Levy, an advisor in the same division, contributed to the article.
A number of maj... (Read More)
Lead: the next can of worms after asbestos? - Energy & Conservation Supplement
Real Estate Weekly - September 18, 1991, by William D'Angelo
Lead: The next can of worms after asbestos?
The owners, lenders and managers of real property are well aware of the impact of environmental hazards, real or perceived, on their properties' performance. The issue of the 1980's, asbestos, educated this industry about the fi... (Read More)
Schurgin's woes widen as toxics doom mall plan - Mark A. Schurgin's plan to build a shopping mall near Glendale, CA., includes information on other bankrupt
Los Angeles Business Journal - February 18, 1991, by Michael Stremfel
Schurgin's woes widen as toxics doom mall plan
Toxic poisoning has apparently killed Mark A. Schurgin's dream to build a $110 million shopping mall on the former site of the Franciscan Pottery works near Glendale.
Schurgin's partnership, called Franciscan Promenade, fil... (Read More)
Occupational disease
American Family Physician - April 1, 1990
The prevalence of occupational disease in the United States is unknown. To help characterize the extent of occupational disease, Cullen and Cherniack report an eight-year experience in an occupational medical clinic in Connecticut. The authors reviewed the medical records... (Read More)
Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia: definition of characteristic clinical profiles in a series of 16 patients
Chest - November 1, 1989, by Jean-Francois Cordier,
Robert Loire,
Jean Brune
Definition of Characteristic Clinical Profiles in a Series of 16 Patients
Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a pathologic finding common to various injuries to the lung of either definite or idiopathic etiology. Since the presentation of patients w... (Read More)
Living dangerously - though world is safer now, we are better at identifying and measuring dangers
Saturday Evening Post - September 1, 1988, by Bill Bryson
It can sometimes seem as if everything
in the world is out to get you.
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh recently reported that showers can be bad for your health. It appears that while we are merrily lathering away and singing our hearts out, toxic chemi... (Read More)
The radical science movement in the United States
Monthly Review - July 1, 1986, by Jon Beckwith
THE RADICAL SCIENCE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Frank Mirer was working for his Ph.D. in chemistry, headed toward an academic research career. Fran Conrad was teaching high school biology. Rich Rosen worked as a research physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratories. ... (Read More)
Regulations that work - ten rules that have made our lives better
Washington Monthly - April 1, 1986, by Joan Claybrook,
David Bollier
REGULATIONS THAT WORK
When Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for polio, the news was welcomed by The New York Times as "one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine.' The serum's widespread use lowered the incidence of polio from 21,000 cases in 1952 to fewer th... (Read More)
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