The Neighborhood Toxicologist

I’d been blabbing away for the past hour or so about chemical contaminants, imparting my imperfect knowledge upon my seven brilliant college...

Throughout my professional life, I have, for the most part buried my head in research. That’s what it’s all about - the science - right? Wro...

Toxicology fascinates me, and I love passing that fascination on to students eager to learn about how chemical contaminants impact their env...

I just came across a little blurb in this week’s issue of Science, noting that the EPA has finally made some decisions about regulating nano...

Here in the Valley, many of us love our local Atlantic salmon. We wait patiently watching as thousands of shad, and hundreds of eel pass by ...

The current Environews Focus published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Face to Face with Toy Safety by Charles W. Schmidt reviews in ...

High tech trash is a problem that just won’t go away, and a problem which all of us help (if you're reading this you're included) ge...

My friend Cal recently sent around a link to the online video The Story Stuff . After a bit of inter-e-mail discussion by those receiving t...

Just a brief note as I prepare a longer (and more depressing article) on farmed fish - salmon in particular. Hearing how local wild caught C...

For those interested in reading more about the estrogenic plasticizer bisphenol A (BPA), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just published its o...

What to buy if you’re compelled towards holiday consumerism, yet feel just a twinge of guilt when you pick out the latest hot-pink cell phon...

Ok, this is it. One last word on grapefruit juice. As both JLowe at Impact Analysis and my sister who actually reads the Wall Street Journa...

A few weeks back, I wrote about drug interactions. On the recommendation of my editor (it was originally for the local paper,) I'd remo...

It's not easy finding information on the waste products, the energy used, or the carbon dioxide produced by your favorite shoe manufactu...

As many are aware by now, there's been a lot of interest in Bindeez beads, the toy beads that can turn toxic if or when ingested. I fir...

Many years ago, my father suffered a TIA or transient ischemic attack – a sort of mini-stroke. This episode occurred in association with a v...

The following article about Nestle's interest in our local water isn't my usual entry, but after noticing that the moderate sized ta...

An ongoing debate about the health impacts of bisphenol A (BPA), the ubiquitous chemical used in production of polycarbonate - that hard cle...