Mercury is a silvery metal, liquid at room temperature. It exists in three forms — elemental mercury, inorganic mercury compounds, and organic mercury compounds. Organic mercury compounds can be ...
University of Georgia research has found that inorganic mercury, which was previously thought to be a less harmful form of the toxic metal, is very damaging to key cell processes. This study is the ...
A 47-year-old woman in Sacramento, California, has been left severely impaired—unable to talk or care for herself and requiring a feeding tube—after using tainted face cream that contained highly ...
Editors’s Note (6/27/25): On June 26 the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the reversal of a long-standing recommendation for flu vaccine formulations containing ...
In 2005, Texas coal plants, refineries, and cement companies released 43,000 pounds of toxic mercury and mercury compounds into the air, land, and waters of our state — a 10,700-pound increase over ...
On June 27, 2018, EPA published in the Federal Register a final mercury inventory reporting rule regarding reporting requirements for applicable persons to provide information to assist in the ...
In July Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., officially approved recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s committee of vaccine advisers to remove ...