Recently, the world learned that the Ukrainian opposition leader, Victor Yushchenko, was diagnosed with dioxin poisoning. A number of political analysts have reported it was an attempted political ...

MIDLAND, Mich.MIDLAND, Mich. — The government has spent many millions of dollars in recent decades cleaning up sites contaminated with dioxin and, in extreme cases, relocating residents of entire ...

You could get whiplash watching the scientific back-and-forth on dioxin. In 1982 the federal government evacuated Times Beach, Mo., after waste oil laced with the toxic chemical was spread on streets ...

Three years after Times Beach, Mo., was evacuated because of serious dioxin contamination, health authorities continue to haggle over how much of a hazard the chemical is. Dioxin is at the heart of a ...

The city of Houston found dioxin in 42 soil samples from around the long-contaminated Union Pacific site near Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward, adding to concerns there could be ongoing risk for those ...

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise" said Shakespeare, but the Environmental Protection Agency has prohibited doubt when dealing with dioxin, a chemical that has occupied the attentions of ...

Dioxin is a highly toxic chemical compound that can do serious harm to humans. Dioxin can be created from natural processes, like volcanic eruptions and forest fires. However, it is often an unwanted ...

Residents of a community in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, expressed concern to health officials over possible exposures to hazardous substances from nearby chemical industries. The community is located ...

Lab tests on cattle at four Irish farms have found much higher levels of cancer-causing dioxins than initially thought, government agency officials said Thursday, but they stressed that the problem ...

Prompted in large part by concern over dioxin emissions, cities around the globe have been tightening regulations on municipal incinerators. Largely ignored have been rural households that burn their ...

Agent Orange (AO) was previously identified as a significant risk factor for biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in prostate cancer patients. In this study, we determined the ...