Word: toxication
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Harvard and other medical schools should increase research on the prevention of disease from toxic substances, Douglas Costle '61, outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said yesterday in a speech at the School of Public Health...
...baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Until now, this dangerous task has been done by men in elaborate space suits. The robot, which knows neither weariness nor boredom, also knows nothing of danger...
...impressive: plague, diphtheria, malaria, polio, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever. Even cancer and heart disease at last seem to be yielding up their secrets to medical research. But in the past ten years, doctors have focused on a number of mysterious "new" ailments, notably Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome...
...university laboratories across the U.S., scientists are manipulating genes to create new forms of life: tiny bacteria that might be able to clean up toxic chemical wastes or produce anticancer agents on a grand scale. The potential profits from this work are so enormous that many researchers have set up companies like the highly touted Genentech. Now the schools themselves are looking for test-tube gold. In what would be an unprecedented step, Harvard University is considering starting a genetic-engineering firm to cash in on its scientists' breakthroughs. President Derek Bok has called for faculty comment...
...panel did not deny the clear risk in living atop toxic pollutants. As Thomas put it: "Love Canal is obviously a miserable place, and I feel very sympathetic to the residents." It did say that before any rational decisions can be made about these dangers, they must be established by something more than what Thomas calls "fragmentary and poor science...