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Search results for "leukemia" ...
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362 Million Pounds of Trouble
Analysis shows that about one-quarter of the state of Ohio's waste in 1989 included toxic chemicals that are known or suspected to cause cancer and birth defects. That's the equivalent of seven and a half pounds for every man, woman, and child in the state. Steel Mills are among the state's biggest generators of toxic waste. Ohio's industries generated 362 million pounds of toxic waste, a figure that should rank Ohio as one of the most polluted states in the nation.
Tags: B.P. Chemicals America Inc.; TRI; toxic waste; toxic chemicals; Ohio Environmental Protection Agency; Toxic Release Inventory; benzene; steel-making; leukemia; cancer; Armco; birth defects; Clean Air Act; Ammonium sulfate; manganese compounds; hydrochloric acid; ammonia; xylene; zinc compounds; sulfuric acid; acetone; trichloroethane; toluene
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Stonewall
This story addresses clause in Ohio's Bioterrorism Bill, which allows it to hide information gathered during public health investigations. The reporter discovered that hiding this information was more of a pattern than an exception. She found examples of the Department's efforts to bury information, stonewall citizens, and downplay health risks. For example...in one community, data was skewed to show no link between toxins in the soil and local leukemia cases. Not only does the Health Department hide this information, they make it nearly impossible to retrieve, by ignoring information requests...even the State Attorney General couldn't get answers to its health-related inquiry.
Tags: Ohio Department of Health; Bioterrorism Bill; Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Ohio Attorney General; EPA; health assessment; public health; stonewall; health risks; public health information; Ohio Attorney General; Centers for Disease Control; Waste Technologies Industries; hazardous waste; cancer rates; air pollution; pollution testing; leukemia; autism; neurological disorders; multiple sclerosis; well water; health hazard; toxic chemicals; Trichlorethylene (TCE); anthrax; e.coli; Greenpeace
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Betrayal of Trust
"Families of about 110 children treated for leukemia at University of New Mexico Hospital thought their kids were getting state-of-the-art treatment" but mortality rates were consistently higher than national averages. Since then, UNM disclosed that "substandard" treatments lessened the survival rates for the children who were not given the newer, more aggressive drugs. It is estimated that the state of New Mexico (as the insurer of the state institution) will have to pay as much as $55 million in damages.
Tags: diskette; University of New Mexico; National Cancer Institute; FOI; oncology; pediatrics; lymphoblastic leukemia
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No title (id: 13403)
The Sciences investigates how a small-time diary farmer inspired a crusade that threatens to breach the wall between conventional and "alternative" medicine. Ever since he cured his own back troubles, people with allergies, with AIDS, with multiple sclerosis or leukemia have been coming to Herb Saunders for an illegal, $2,500 colostrum treatment. Now supporters of "alternative" medicine want to pass Senate Bill 1035 to allow licensed medical practitioners to treat patients with any type of therapy at all. (November/December 1996)
Tags: Bilger Beyond the Pail Health care Drug regulation 5 pgs.
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No title (id: 12557)
This is the story of a large, complicated and bitterly fought lawsuit between 8 working-class families from Wolburn, MA and two multinational corporations. The case involves a cluster of childhood leukemia victims living near city wells poisoned with industrial chemicals. Two of the nation's largest corporations, each with a plant near the wells, stand accused. (Sept. 1995)
Tags: Harr A civil action Contest entry Justice Courts Harvard Law BOOK
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Diagnosis: Leukemia
The Observer investigates the case of an 11 - year - old girl, Eva Maria Taveras, who was turned away from a New York City hospital despite the fact that she was dying from advanced leukemia. (Dec. 25, 1995 - Jan. 1, 1996)
Tags: Finkelstein; Diagnosis: leukemia; no insurance; medical
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Dwayne Sexton
A CBS News 60 Minutes investigation to find the truth about how a six-year - old boy was turned into a nuclear guinea pig on behalf of the U.S. government and exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. The purpose of the radiation, his mother was told, was to cure her son's leukemia. The real reason we learned was to gauge the level of radiation a human being could stand for the Department of Defense and the manned space program.
Tags: TAPE; human experiments; DOD; radiation; ethics
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No title (id: 9690)
Charlotte Observer details how Amaco, with the collusion of government officials, systematically leaked gasoline into the ground and failed to clean it up for 30 years; water supplies are at risk and the rate of leukemia in the area is double the average, May 20, 1993.
Tags: SC Hechinger 19 pages
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No title (id: 7408)
The New Yorker describes three clusters of brain cancer, leukemia, and lymphoma afflicting people living, working, or attending school near electrical substations and high-current power lines in Connecticut, North Carolina and California; medical and scientific evidence links cancers with exposure to power-line magnetic fields; state health officials deny cancer link, July 9 and Nov. 19, 1990.
Tags: NY Brodeur
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No title (id: 6863)
Arizona Republic's six-part series "The Poison Within" documents the effects of pesticides, contaminated water and tainted food on human health, Jan. 29 - Feb. 3, 1989.
Tags: AZ agriculture chemicals environment water health leukemia