Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...

CHICAGO -- Exposure to the ubiquitous dioxin chemicals was linked with thyroid dysfunction, a new study found. Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) data, researchers led ...

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 neighborhoods tainted by the toxin.

Once again, contaminated animal feed is threatening the health of consumers. The control system is too lax, and information policy is a disaster. The most recent dioxin scare shows that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2004 the current Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, suffered a severe case of dioxin poisoning. In order to understand how the human body reacts to remove the poison, researchers have analyzed ...

In December of 1982, the people of Times Beach, Mo., were forced to abandon their town forever because the Environmental Protection Agency found high levels of a chemical called dioxin. At the time, ...

In humans, acute poisoning by high doses of dioxin almost systematically triggers a dramatic skin disease termed chlorine, which may persist for years (Yamamoto and Tokura, 2003). In addition, ...

Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to ...