Safety

by Dave Stevens and Delores Broten

There is good reason to doubt that anyone in Canada  has a solid handle on how much air pollution Canadians are exposed to.

Pollution data comes mainly from two sources, self-reports by the polluters, published in the National

by Susan MacVittie

Sunscreen has been touted over the past several decades as an essential protector from the sun's burning rays and the advent of skin cancer, but some Canadian dermatologists say that the incidence rates have more than doubled in the last 20 years for all types of skin cancer.

Introduction by Delores Broten

If you use the internet, a WiFi connection seems like the greatest thing since cell phones. Increasingly, however, questions are being asked about the health impact of these handy devices and their signal towers. Each expansion of the technology spreads more invisible rays through our schools, our cities, and our bodies.

Digging into the information on electromagnetic fields (EMF) is a minefield, occasionally entertain­ing, frequently fascinating, definitely complicated, certainly a great way to spend a lot of time to win few an­swers.

Did you know that an Israeli company is in human tri­als to treat cancer tumours with very low level medium fre­quency electrical fields? Turns the whole extensive debate about electromagnetic pollution and cancer on its head, be­cause the fields kill cancer cells right off. But each type of cancer cell responds to a different amount of electrical field applied at different angles.

by Susan MacVittie

The nitrogen-rich industrial chemical Melamine was added to watered-down milk to mask the resulting protein deficiency and fool quality tests.

Offshore outsourcing has been a boon to the modern globalized economy, but regulating what happens in a factory half way across the world is difficult and - as in the recent case of the melamine scandal in China – can be deadly business.