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Could nanoparticles cause some lung damage?C. Juste/Miami Herald/Newscom Claims that seven Chinese factory workers developed severe lung damage from inhaling nanoparticles are stoking the debate over the environmental-health effects of nanotechnology.A paper published in the European Respiratory Journal claims to be the first to document cases of ill health caused by nanoparticles in humans (Y. Song, X. Li and X. Du Eur. Respir. J. 34, 559 - 567; 2009). Other experts are sceptical as to whether nanoparticles are actually to blame, but the paper has triggered lively discussions."The study raises the bar for doing appropriate research as fast as possible to...

In a reversal which has monumental implications for thousands of chronic pain patients with implanted pain pumps, these two studies implicate all known opioid medications delivered via implanted intrathecal pumps for causing tumor generation within the sensitive area around the spinal cord. Thousands of patients are today living in wheelchairs due to these lesions, which the makers of the pumps denied. If I could draw an anology with the secret that "Big Tabacco" wouldn't admit; that cigarettes are not habit forming due to nicotine. Seldom is an industry more deserving of, or ripe for civil litagation. In 1983, DW Coombs...