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Links to articles either written by Interscan personnel, or of special interest in gas detection, are presented here.

May, 2008   Facility Safety Management  [Formaldehyde: It's Not Only Found In FEMA Trailers]
May 12, 2008   Health News Digest  [Phthalates: Hard To Pronounce, Hard To Spell, And Unjustly Attacked]
May 5, 2008   Health News Digest  [Bitter Melon: An Herbal Therapy For Type 2 Diabetes]
April 28, 2008   Health News Digest  [Formaldehyde Phobia]
April 21, 2008   Health News Digest  [A Critical Look At Some Earth Day Promotions]
April 14, 2008   Health News Digest  [Paper Or Plastic: Today's Green-Bag Inquiry]
April 7, 2008   Health News Digest  [Be Green When You Clean]
March 31, 2008   Health News Digest  [No Ribbons For Athero]
March 24, 2008   Health News Digest  [Can Lyme Disease Be Prevented With A Single Injection?]
March 17, 2008   Health News Digest  [The Wonderful Properties Of Black Tea]
March 10, 2008   Health News Digest  [Rolling The Dice With Patient Health: The Law Of Averages Catches Up With A Vegas Surgi-Center]
March 3, 2008   Health News Digest  [Alpha-Lipoic Acid: Universal Antioxidant...And Miracle Cure?]
February 25, 2008   Health News Digest  [Vitamin C And Cancer]
February 18, 2008   Health News Digest  [A Look At St. John's Wort]
February 11, 2008   Health News Digest  [A Rational Look At Climate Change]
February 4, 2008   Health News Digest  [Where Your Blue Eyes Came From]
January 28, 2008   Health News Digest  [The Ultimate Medical Theory? A Look At Natural Hygiene]
January 21, 2008   Health News Digest  [Here's A New Year's Resolution: Fewer Medical Errors]
January 14, 2008   Health News Digest  [Medicaid, Long-Term Care, And Robin Hood In Reverse]
January 7, 2008   Health News Digest  [Figuring Out The Placebo Effect]
December 31, 2007   Health News Digest  [Good Vibrations? A Look At Vibrational Medicine]
December 24, 2007   Health News Digest  [Gypsum: More Than Just Drywall]
December 17, 2007   Health News Digest  [The Promise Of Energy From The Sea]
December 10, 2007   Health News Digest  [Hospital Infection Control Woes Continue]
December 3, 2007   Health News Digest  [Food Safety For The Holiday Season]
November 26, 2007   Health News Digest  [Some Thoughts On The Hydrogen Economy]
November 19, 2007   Health News Digest  [Environmentalism Versus Energy: A False Dichotomy This Time]
November 12, 2007   Health News Digest  [Homes That Are Sealed Up Too Tight: More Energy Efficient But Less Healthy]
October 29, 2007   Health News Digest  [Antibiotic Resistant Infections No Longer Confined To Hospitals]
October 22, 2007   Health News Digest  [Journey To The Center Of Obesity]
October 15, 2007   Health News Digest  [Should You Be Afraid Of Diagnostic X-Rays?]
October 8, 2007   Health News Digest  [Let The Dead Speak: Reversing The Decline In Autopsies]
October, 2007   Facility Safety Management  [Gas Detection Organization]
October 1, 2007   Health News Digest  [Fattening Up Our Kids With School Lunches]
September 24, 2007   Health News Digest  [Vitamin D: Unsung Superhero?]
September 17, 2007   Health News Digest  [Blood Banks Should Draw More Interest]
September, 2007   Facility Safety Management  [Hazmat Role Model]
September 10, 2007   Health News Digest  [It's Time For Some Common Sense On Methyl Bromide]
September 3, 2007   Health News Digest  [Maternal Death In Childbirth On The Rise]
August 28, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Are Your Employees Prone To Accident?]
August 27, 2007   Health News Digest  [Natural Isn't Always Better: The Raw Milk Controversy]
August 20, 2007   Health News Digest  [Laser Printer Emissions And Your Health]
August 14, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Use It or Lose It: Pain Avoidance May Not Be Best Strategy]
August 13, 2007   Health News Digest  [Should You Be Afraid Of New Car Smell?]
August 6, 2007   Health News Digest  [Fires That Occur During Surgery]
July 30, 2007   Health News Digest  [The 2007 Farm Bill And Why You Should Care About It]
July 24, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Since You Can't Molt, Limit Exposure to Heavy Metals]
July 23, 2007   Health News Digest  [Microwave Ovens And Pacemakers]
July 17, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Helping Your Fellow Man May Be Good For Safety]
July 16, 2007   Health News Digest  [Asphalt: Paving The Way, While Respecting The Environment]
July 10, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Could Bacterial Infections Trigger Metal Allergies?]
July 9, 2007   Health News Digest  [Can Buckyballs Improve Your Health?]
July 3, 2007   edmunds.com  [Could That New-Car Smell Be Toxic?]
July 2, 2007   Health News Digest  [Driving While Distracted or Drowsy: A Recipe For Disaster]
June 25, 2007   Health News Digest  [Patient Dumping: Another Dark Side of Health Care]
June 18, 2007   Health News Digest  [Infection Control: More Confusion Means More Deaths]
June 12, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Safety Meeting Déjà Vu:  Could It All Be In Your Head?]
June 11, 2007   Health News Digest  [Splendor In The Grass: Enjoying Your Lawn]
June 5, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Fruit Flies Do It, Too: Exercise Free Will, Wear Your PPE]
June 4, 2007   Health News Digest  [More Than A Fish Story: Bringing Steelhead And Salmon Back To Oregon's Deschutes Basin]
June, 2007   Facility Safety Management  [HazMat: Not For The Fainthearted]
May 29, 2007   Facility Safety Management Weekly E-Newsletter  [Has the tide turned on ethylene oxide?]
May 28, 2007   Health News Digest  [Behind The Scenes In Infection Control]
May 21, 2007   Health News Digest  [Keeping It Cool]
May 14, 2007   Health News Digest  [Second Thoughts About Palm Trees]
May 7, 2007   Health News Digest  [Some Reasons To Give A Damn About Dams]
April 30, 2007   Health News Digest  [Getting Your Hands Dirty:  Improving The Environment By Gardening]
April 23, 2007   Health News Digest  [Take Out The Salt, To Fight The Drought]
April 16, 2007   Health News Digest  [The Sting Of Disappearing Bees]
April 9, 2007   Health News Digest  [Shedding Some Light On The Light Bulb Ban]
April 2, 2007   Health News Digest  [LNG To the Rescue]
March 26, 2007   Health News Digest  [Carbon Trading: History Repeating Itself?]
March 19, 2007   Health News Digest  [How Valuable Are Cedar Closets For Protecting Your Clothes?]
March 12, 2007   Health News Digest  [Spring Ahead, Fall Back, Roll Over, And Play Dead:  What You Might Not Know About Daylight Saving Time]
March 5, 2007   Health News Digest  [Siding:  When a Cover-Up Can Be a Good Thing]
February 26, 2007   Health News Digest  [The Burning Bed—Revisited]
February 19, 2007   Health News Digest  [Skid Row: Where Do Old Tires Go to Die?]
February 12, 2007   Health News Digest  [The Downside of Tanning Your Hide]
February 5, 2007   Health News Digest  [Endless Hot Water—What's the Catch?]
January 29, 2007   Health News Digest  [Diamonds Are Forever—Whether Mined Or Synthetic]
January 22, 2007   Health News Digest  [French Fry Your Potatoes, Then Fill Up Your Car?]
January 15, 2007   Health News Digest  [Stopping The Scourge Of Type 2 Diabetes]
January 8, 2007   Health News Digest  [Germs At The Gym]
January 1, 2007   Health News Digest  [Hot Off The Press: Another Misguided Attack On Dietary Supplements]
December 25, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Story Behind the Bacterial Outbreak That Killed Two Preemies in Los Angeles]
December 18, 2006   Health News Digest  [Don't Be Afraid Of rbST]
December 11, 2006   Health News Digest  [Deck the Halls—Safely!]
December 4, 2006   Health News Digest  [It's Time To Get Serious About Fireplace Safety]
November 27, 2006   Health News Digest  [Never Heard Of Fomites? You'd Better Learn About Them!]
November 20, 2006   Health News Digest  [Sickly Sweet]
November 13, 2006   Health News Digest  [Anti-Vaccination Hysteria - Undoing Progress]
October 30, 2006   Health News Digest  ['Tis The Season...For Head Lice]
October 23, 2006   Health News Digest  [Toxic Shock - It's Baaack!]
October 16, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Superbugs Are Here. Don't Help Them Along]
October 9, 2006   Health News Digest  [Funding Pink Ribbons With Corporate Green]
October 2, 2006   Health News Digest  [What's On Tap With Your Water Supply?]
September 25, 2006   Health News Digest  [Should You Be Worried About Microwave Ovens?]
September 18, 2006   Health News Digest  [What A Waste:  Septic Tanks And Their Environmental Problems]
September 11, 2006   Health News Digest  [More Deadly Fallout From 9/11]
September 4, 2006   Health News Digest  [Playing It Smart, Health-Wise, With Your Computer]
August 28, 2006   Health News Digest  [Don't Tread on Me: Are the Attacks on Carpets Justified?]
August 21, 2006   Health News Digest  [Is Your Immune System Getting Weaker?]
August 14, 2006   Health News Digest  [How Safe Are Petting Zoos?]
August 7, 2006   Health News Digest  [Is Dry Cleaning Really Dangerous?]
July 31, 2006   Health News Digest  [Don't Get Nailed With An Infection]
July 24, 2006   Health News Digest  [Safety Tips for That Backyard Swimming Pool]
July 17, 2006   Health News Digest  [Designing Food to Save the Planet]
July 10, 2006   Health News Digest  [Relaxing Hot Tub—Or Breeding Ground?]
July 3, 2006   Health News Digest  [How About a Fourth of July Celebrating Independence and Safety?]
June 19, 2006   Health News Digest  [Air Quality? — How About Inside the Plane?]
June, 2006   chem.info Magazine  [The Challenge of Toxics in the Chemical Processing Industry]      This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. (457 KB)   Click here to download the Acrobat Reader
June 12, 2006   Health News Digest  [Going to the Well Once Too Often: The Problems with Well Water]
June 7, 2006   Chemical Equipment e-Update  [Testing for Caffeine Right in the Cup]
June 5, 2006   Health News Digest  [Caught In Traffic]
May 29, 2006   Health News Digest  [Some Positive Environmental News—From Unexpected Places]
May 22, 2006   Health News Digest  [Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?]
May 15, 2006   Health News Digest  [Oil Shale—Now's the Time to Ratchet This Thing Up]
May 8, 2006   Health News Digest  [Artificial Reefs:  Great for the Ecology and the Economy]
May 1, 2006   Health News Digest  [Fed Up With High Gasoline Prices? It's Time to Bring Back Diesel]
April 24, 2006   Health News Digest  [Save the Green Movement by Stopping the Insanity]
April 17, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Best Way to Repel Insects and the Diseases They Carry: DEET!]
April 10, 2006   Health News Digest  [Our Cups Runneth Over: Is Your Soft Drink Safe?]
April 3, 2006   Health News Digest  [Getting the Lead Out—Dumbest Case Scenario]
March 27, 2006   Health News Digest  [Cooling Down The Bird Flu Hysteria]
March 20, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Incredible Sushi Mercury Monster]
March 13, 2006   Health News Digest  [Is Anything Sterile Yet?]
March 6, 2006   Health News Digest  [Barbecued Mythology - It's Overdone!]
February 27, 2006   Health News Digest  [Mono A Mono: Ain't Nothin' Like the Rail Thing]
February 21, 2006   Chemical Equipment e-Update  [Hard Science and Hard Drugs]
February 20, 2006   Health News Digest  [Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer: Shocking Junk Science]
February 13, 2006   Health News Digest  [TB Or Not TB]
February 6, 2006   Health News Digest  [Don't Let The Bedbugs Bite!]
January 30, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Answer Is NOT Blowin' In The Wind]
January 23, 2006   Health News Digest  [The Population Bomb Defused]
January 16, 2006   Health News Digest  [Terms Of Endangerment: Not Saving The Species]
January 9, 2006   Health News Digest  [Addicted To The Bottle...Of Water]
January 2, 2006   Health News Digest  [Sustainable Forests: The Greens Should Love This]
December 26, 2005   Health News Digest  [Enviro Whoppers For 2005]
December 19, 2005   Health News Digest  [As Close as Your Neighborhood Restaurant: Biofuel That Works]
December 12, 2005   Health News Digest  [Cool Environmental Urban Myths--Part One]
December 5, 2005   Health News Digest  [Less Smog, More Hot Air]
November 28, 2005   Health News Digest  [The Quest For Biofuels Is Destroying The Rain Forest]
November 21, 2005   Health News Digest  [Running Out Of Oil]
November 14, 2005   Health News Digest  [Environmental Myths—Old And New]
November 7, 2005   Health News Digest  [The War Against DDT, And Its Innocent Victims]
October 31, 2005   Health News Digest  [How Sweet It Is: Defending Splenda®]
October 17, 2005   Health News Digest  [Up In Smoke: The Bonfire Of The Inanities]
October, 2005   The Synergist®  (American Industrial Hygiene Association)  [Gas Detection In The Real World]      This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. (1.9 MB)   Click here to download the Acrobat Reader
October 10, 2005   Health News Digest  [Blame It On The Wind]
October 3, 2005   Health News Digest  [Mold: The Gift That Keeps On Giving]
September 26, 2005   Chemical Equipment e-News  [Teflon® Accusations Don't Stick]
September 26, 2005   Health News Digest  [Germs: The Smallest Members Of Our Environment Are The Scariest]
September 19, 2005   Health News Digest  [Jimmy Crack Corn, And I Don't Care: Looking At Ethanol As An Energy Source]
September 12, 2005   Health News Digest  [Life Goes On--Weather Or Not!]
September 5, 2005   Health News Digest  [Politics, Pop Music, Junk Science, And Hurricanes]
August 29, 2005   Health News Digest  [Teflon - Nonstick Science]
August 22, 2005   Health News Digest  [Yes Nukes]
August 19, 2005   Chemical Equipment e-News  [Driving the Hydrogen Economy]
August 15, 2005   Health News Digest  [Swimming With Sharks: Hardly Eco-Tourism]
August 8, 2005   Health News Digest  [Hype-Bred Cars: You'd Better Think Twice]
August 1, 2005   Health News Digest  [Personal Environment, Personal Bias, Junk Science]
July 25, 2005   Health News Digest  [The Fluoridation "Conspiracy"]
July 18, 2005   Health News Digest  [Enviro Politics, Enviro Hysteria, Or Enviro Science?]
July, 2005   Chemical Equipment Magazine  [Taming The Beast With Good Gas Detection]      This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. (676 KB)   Click here to download the Acrobat Reader
June 17, 2005   Chemical Equipment e-News  [How About A Positive Spin, For A Change?]
June 13, 2005   Health News Digest  [Mercury Rising]
May 23, 2005   Health News Digest  [Got Waste? The Debate Over Recycling]
May 9, 2005   Health News Digest  [Radon: The Silent Killer...Or Maybe Not]
April 18, 2005   Health News Digest  [It's Termite Swarm Season!]
March 28, 2005   Health News Digest  [Does Mite Make Right? Living With Dust Mites]
March 14, 2005   Health News Digest  [Up In Secondhand Smoke: What Does Science Tell Us?]
February 28, 2005   Health News Digest  [Don't Inhale: The Dangers Of Carbon Monoxide]
February 14, 2005   Health News Digest  [Formaldehyde—It's Everywhere]
January 18, 2005   Health News Digest  [Toxic Mold: The Hidden Enemy]
December 27, 2004   Health News Digest  [Figure Eight: Danger at the Ice Rink]
December 13, 2004   Health News Digest  [The Silent Killer: Hospital Infections Claim More Victims]
October 4, 2004   New York Magazine  [The Real Environmental Implications Of 9/11]
One Woman's Near Fatal Experience With A Hospital-Induced Infection  [First Do No Harm:  How "Prestige" Nearly Killed Me]
May, 2004   Facility Safety Management  [Respiratory Diseases And Their Prevention: A Look At Industrial Dust And Its Control]
February, 2004   Facility Safety Management  [Monitoring for PELs, TLVs of Toxic/Combustible Gases]
July, 2003   Healthcare Purchasing News  [Only a few industries kill their customers]
June, 2003   Healthcare Purchasing News  [To Sterrad, with love]
April, 1997   Plant Services  [No, you are not paranoid. They really are out to get you]

 


  

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