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Mother Jones: Why Mercury in Tuna is Still Legal

Firrst, Deborah Landvik-Fellner's hair started falling out. Then her speech began to slur and her memory grew unreliable. Her heart started fluttering, and her hands shook. One day she walked out of the supermarket and woke up surrounded by a crowd of people. She'd collapsed in the parking lot for no apparent reason. Landvik-Fellner, then 45, went to one doctor, then another, and another. None could figure out
what was wrong. Finally, in 2004, after five years of weird symptoms, her husband Mike saw a TV show about a man who was poisoning his business partner with mercury, a potent toxin that can damage the heart, nervous system, and kidneys. The business partner's symptoms — shaky hands, staggering gait — reminded Mike of his wife's. On a lark, he suggested that she have her blood tested. When the results came back, they were both stunned: 48 parts per billion of mercury, nearly 10 times what the EPA says is safe . . .

Sacramento News: Beauty Products are Loaded with Hormone Disruptors

You know those 12 products women use daily? That adds up to some 168
chemical ingredients, and men’s habits total about 85 ingredients. I deposit
about 110 chemicals into my body every day. Add to these numbers the
fact that toxins pervade our environment—our drinking water, air, food and
plastics. We’re each contaminated with hundreds of industrial chemicals,
including plasticizers, flame retardants, stain repellents and pesticides that
have been linked to cancer, immune-system damage and reproductive and
developmental toxicity. Meanwhile, chronic illness and disease in the United
States is on the rise, affecting almost one-half of the population, according
to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the use of
synthetic chemicals  increased, so did infertility, birth defects, testicular
cancer and learning disabilities. Breast cancer used to be relegated to
menopausal women. Now women in their 20s are regularly afflicted . . .

Washington Post: Chemical in Plastic is Linked to Reproductive Problems

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have linked a chemical found in
everyday plastics to problems with brain function and mood disorders in
monkeys -- the first time the chemical has been connected to health
problems in primates. The study is the latest in an accumulation of
research that has raises concerns about bisphenol A, or BPA, a compound
that gives a shatterproof quality to polycarbonate plastic and has been
found to leach from plastic into food and water. The Yale study comes as
federal toxicologists yesterday reaffirmed an earlier draft report finding
that there is "some concern" that bisphenol A can cause developmental
problems in the brain and hormonal systems of infants and children . . .

Oakland Tribune: Toddlers Absorb Far More Toxic Chemicals Than Mothers

In a world permeated with chemicals, toddlers' penchant for crawling on
floors, chewing on assorted objects and touching everything within reach
expose their bodies to a disproportionate amount of toxic pollutants. It's
only the second study to examine this chemical load in U.S. toddlers, and
breaks new ground in taking a national glimpse at its prevalence . . .

Alternet: Pharmaceuticals in Our Water are Causing Bizarre Mutations

Trace amounts of pharmaceuticals, including narcotics, birth control,
antidepressants and other controlled substances, are in the drinking water
and in U.S. rivers, lakes and streams. The growing public debate on
pharmaceuticals in water will heat up this summer as experts on both
sides of the issue try to convince the public that it's either much ado about
nothing or another example of humans ignoring early warning signs such as
deformed frogs -- the amphibian considered the canary in the coal mine.

Wall Street Journal: Curbing Antibiotic Use In the War on "Superbugs"

Hospitals are turning to a new breed of antibiotic SWAT team to win the
war against "superbugs" -- the bacteria that are outmaneuvering nearly
every weapon in the arsenal of drugs long used to fight them. The efforts,
known as antimicrobial stewardship programs, team top pharmacists,
infectious-disease specialists and microbiologists. The groups monitor the
use of a hospital's antibiotics and restrict prescriptions of specific drugs
when they become less effective at fighting infections. The heightened
vigilance comes as the federal Medicare program plans to begin refusing to
pay hospitals to treat preventable infections that patients contract while
under the facilities' care. Although antibiotics kill or inhibit the growth of
susceptible bacteria, they allow some to survive and become resistant . .
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