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, ...

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 ...

An independent food safety researcher has called on authorities in the Chinese mainland to impose tough limits on dioxin contamination of water and soil, following the detection of the carcinogen in ...

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 ...

It's been 27 years since the EPA said it would issue a clear scientific report that could be used to set health-protective limits on dioxin in our food. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made ...

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 ...

To come up with “win-win” solutions to the garbage crisis the country is facing, adopting new technologies that will use trash to generate electricity has been resorted to. But doing so “may end up ...

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 ...

It does seem a strange choice. Unprecedented, even - the recent confirmed poisoning of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin appears to be the first recorded case of a human being ...

US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development has completed its review of a dioxin exposure study conducted by the University of Michigan in the Midland-Saginaw, Michigan ...

He’s not the quickest calf in the pasture, so it took George W. Bush, and his White House handlers, a few months to grasp a basic rule of modern American electoral politics: Don’t look bad on the ...