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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After regularly using a skin lightening cream manufactured in Mexico, a California woman was hospitalized, relying on tubal feeding and being unable to speak or care for herself. The U.S. Centers for ...

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 ...