Word: toxically
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...have been ruled out as the source of the unusually high concentrations of aluminum in Alzheimer's disease victims, researchers are now exploring another possible cause: that is, a link between acid rain and Alzheimer's disease. There is no question that acid rain contributes to the toxic levels of free aluminum in our environment and is detrimental to plants and wildlife. Consequently, it must be asked: Is the high aluminum concentration in the brains of Alzheimer's victims the result of the disease? Or could the illness be caused by the high levels of aluminum...
...Health and Human Services Department to lower nutritional and health standards in nursing homes, and later to make inspections less frequently, the Administration simply cut the funds for such inspections nearly in half, from $27.6 million to $13.6 million. Until the Environmental Protection Agency's coziness with toxic-waste polluters became a scandal, funding for enforcement of waste regulations had been slashed from $11.4 million to $2.3 million and enforcement personnel cut from 311 to 75. When the Agriculture Department could not convince Congress that meat and poultry inspections could be reduced, it ordered inspectors, in effect, to work...
...Reagan Administration set out to make the FDA move faster. Now some critics charge that the FDA has become a tool of the drug industry. They cite the FDA's approval in 1982 of Oraflex, an arthritis pain reliever, despite evidence that its side effects might be highly toxic. In the first three weeks, 64,000 U.S. prescriptions were written. But after 61 deaths in Britain had been linked to the drug, the manufacturer withdrew the product. Critics also note that the FDA's relaxation of rules allowed a defective batch of Nursoy, an infant formula, to reach...
...were about to pulverize a rancid cantaloupe, and screams. He staggers wildly about the apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources of intelligence or nobility upon which to build a decent new life. He is dull...
...miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from the tainted well. "There were so many medical problems on our street we joked that maybe we were living on a toxic dump...