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 ...

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 ...

You could get whiplash watching the scientific back-and-forth on dioxin. In 1982 the federal government evacuated Times Beach, Mo., after waste oil laced with the toxic chemical was spread on streets ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Houston found dioxin in 42 soil samples from around the long-contaminated Union Pacific site near Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward, adding to concerns there could be ongoing risk for those ...

COHOES -- Norlite, the state's only commercial hazardous waste incinerator, failed a self-test last fall for emissions of dioxin, a highly toxic carcinogen, the state Department of Environmental ...

EAST PALESTINE — Environmental Protection Agency Response Coordinator Mark Durno discussed preliminary results of the completed Phase I soil-sampling with East Palestine residents at First United ...

Food & Water Watch, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, said Monday it’s concerned about the way the U.S. Department of Agriculture is regulating meat imports following last weekend’s recall of ...

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, ...

Lab tests on cattle at four Irish farms have found much higher levels of cancer-causing dioxins than initially thought, government agency officials said Thursday, but they stressed that the problem ...

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 ...