The Neighborhood Toxicologist

Book Review.  Below is an excerpt from my recent review of: Fake Silk  The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon Paul David Blanc, Yale Universit...

Antibiotic resistance test. Image: Dr. Graham Beards A toddler suddenly becomes deathly ill. In the ER she is diagnosed with dysentery,...

( Cross-posted from toxicevolution .)We were closing in on the end of a glorious spring weekend when my husband discovered the bag. “Any c...

http://www.longislandhort.cornell.edu/ vegpath/photos/ lateblight_tomato.htm#images The first inkling that things were really bad was t...

It has been quite a while (apologies to those who left comments over the past 3 years...when Google took over, I couldn't figure out how...

When I started writing this blog, my goal was to explain why certain chemicals in consumer products were toxic, as well as discuss some o...

This summer I met a family from Australia who’d mentioned their daughter was highly allergic to peanuts. Wondering if all the concern about ...

“Ask for a cone, save the environment!” proclaimed the sign at the local Creamee. The girls asked for cups anyway, to catch the drippings o...

First published in the Montague Reporter First we hear about tens of thousands of picocuries* in the groundwater beneath Vermont Yankee Nucl...

The following is what I intend to be the first in a series of essays on the Evolution of the Toxic Response – a topic which piqued my inter...

Over the past two years the debate about bisphenol A (BPA) has become a quagmire where highly regarded scientists who once worked side by si...