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Last updated Thu 4 January 2018 Last updated Thu 4 Jan 2018 Arsenic poisoning, or arsenicosis, happens when a person takes in dangerous levels of arsenic. Arsenic is a natural semi-metallic chemical that is found all over the world in groundwater. Intake can result from swallowing, absorbing, or inhaling the chemical. Arsenic poisoning can cause major health complications and death if it is not treated, so precautions exist to protect those who are at risk.
Sept. 17, 2019 OpinionWater & Sanitation On the UN's first World Patient Safety Day, a cautionary tale. Sept. 17, 2019 By Mike Paddock I rounded a curve in the road and my heart nearly stopped. There was a potable water truck filling its 10,000-liter tank from the river. I nearly threw myself through the windshield applying the brakes and ran over to the startled driver. He explained that a nearby community was without drinking water due to the dry season.
12:30 PM 02/25/2019 | Opinion Mike Paddock | Contributor Everyone seems to have a bug right now, but one hundred years ago the world was in the depths of the Spanish Flu outbreak, an event that would kill an extraordinary 100 million people — more than the combined number of WWII civilian and military fatalities. This event is personal to me.
Last updated Mon 24 September 2018 Last updated Mon 24 Sep 2018 Craniosynostosis is a rare condition in which a baby develops or is born with an unusually shaped skull. It happens when one or more of the natural spaces in the infant's skull join together too early before birth or after delivery. These spaces are known as cranial sutures. An infant's skull consists of seven bones with gaps, or cranial sutures, between them.
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