After applying a mercury-laced skin cream for months, a woman begins to experience alarming neurological symptoms. Doctors soon discover that the mercury in the cream caused severe brain poisoning, a ...

Sampling on L.A. area beaches found no lead or other metals at concentrations that could hurt humans or animals.

An exhibit featuring the works of an American photojournalist who documented Minamata disease has opened in Tokyo.

Declassified CIA files reveal a secret program that a former US president was certain would help him 'control the world.' ...

A Utah woman who wrote a children's book about coping with grief after her husband's death has been convicted of murder after ...