People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...

Failure to recognize and resolve problems in an honest and evidence-based manner is the root cause of increasing vaccine ...

People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of ...

U.S. hat manufacturers last week agreed to drop mercury from the process of making felt hats. A substitute, hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid, will be used. Thus ends one of the oldest industrial ...

To the Editor: After reading the article in the October 24 issue of the Journal on mercury in house paint by Hirschman et al. and the editorial on the same subject I went to our garage and retrieve ...

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall of refillable medicine bottles. The lids of these bottles fail to be child-resistant, posing a risk of poisoning if ...

In the past, if you had a question or curiosity about global norms, you'd probably talk it over with friends, family, or ...

This little bottle of mercury, with its ring of small shells, was used by a wise woman living in Penzance in about 1905. She earned money by using it to forecast the weather for the fishermen.