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Salon.com
July 31, 2001
Jim Fisher |
Poison Valley (Part 2) What new cocktails of toxic chemicals are brewing in the high-tech industry's "clean rooms" -- and will we ever know what harm they're causing?   |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Spencer E. Ante |
Was IBM Hazardous To Workers' Health? A lawsuit claims chemicals used in making chips and drives caused cancer |
U.S. Banker
January 2002
Mark Bruno |
IBM Moving Along with Identrus The business-to-business billing and payments industry isn't small change. Mark Greene, general manager of IBM's global banking, is well aware of this, and knows that IBM stands to make a pretty penny by getting the B2B payments business going... |
InternetNews
January 3, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
IBM Sued Over Ground, Water Contamination IBM is being sued over environmental concerns in two New York towns where the company opened some of its first factories. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2005
Stephanie Chalupka |
Tainted Water on Tap A description of selected water contaminants and their known health effects as well as which populations are more vulnerable. An outline of assessment and nurses' roles in patient education and as community advocates for safer drinking water. |
Salon.com
November 13, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Silicon hogs A new study tars microchip manufacturing as wasteful and inefficient. Whatever happened to high tech's squeaky-clean image? |
AskMen.com
June 11, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Common Cancer-Causing Substances Find out about the most common cancer-causing agents (both artificial and natural), and how to decrease your risk of developing it... |
AboutSafety
January 15, 2001 |
Preventing Bladder Cancer From Exposure To o-Toluidine And Aniline o-Toluidine and aniline are aromatic amines used as intermediates in making dyes, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and chemicals used in rubber manufacturing. Chronic exposures to them have been implicated in reported cases of bladder cancer in workers. |
Chemistry World
June 6, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Pre-childbirth solvent exposure raises breast cancer risk The timing of exposure to organic solvents -- such as those found in cleaning products and industrial chemicals -- may affect breast cancer risks in women |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
Dylan Tweney |
What's Inside Your Laptop? We reveal the components inside a typical notebook PC and explain where they come from. |
Health
March 15, 2009
Chris Woolston |
How to Detox Your Body Every day we put potential toxins into our mouths, breathe them into our lungs, and track them into our homes without ever really knowing where they'll end up- |
Fast Company
Harry McCracken |
Khrushchev Visits IBM: A Strange Tale of Silicon Valley History On November 18, PBS's American Experience will document the visit in a program titled Cold War Roadshow, with new commentary by Khrushchev's son Sergei. |
Industrial Physicist
Theis & Coufal |
How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering. |
AboutSafety
December 18, 2000 |
Choosing The Right Glove There can be serious consequences from using the wrong gloves with a dangerous chemical. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2001
Mark D. Uehling |
Free drugs from your faucet How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us? |
Salon.com
March 30, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Calling Erin Brockovich The chemical industry's dirty secrets are making us sick... |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Charles Fishman |
The Business of Water Water is becoming a high-stakes business where there's money to be made everywhere you look - from greasy wool to microchips. |
Mother Jones
August 1999
Jon R. Luoma |
System Failure The chemical revolution has ushered in a world of changes. Many of them, it's becoming clear are in our bodies |
Fast Company
September 2003
Kim Girard |
Unions? Not in this valley. Why organizing white collar workers in Silicon Valley is hard slogging |
AboutSafety
March 29, 2001 |
The Effects Of Workplace Hazards On Female Reproductive Health Examples of chemical and physical reproductive hazards for women in the workplace include cancer treatment drugs, carbon disulfide, lead, ionizing radiation like X-rays and gamma rays, and strenuous physical labor like prolonged standing and heavy lifting. |
Wired
Thomas Goetz |
Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer By getting regular blood tests, doctors may be able to diagnose cancer early, giving the patient a 90 percent chance of survival. |
InternetNews
June 10, 2004
Michael Singer |
Trade Group Calls for More Nano IBM and the Semiconductor Industry Association say the government's plan is woefully under funded. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
IBM Expands RFID Services The new services are geared for companies that typically employ 1,000 workers or less. |
Geotimes
June 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Legal victory for mining In Barrick Goldstrike Mines vs. EPA, now being heralded as a victory for the mining industry, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., ruled in April that mine operators do not have to report trace metals in waste rocks to the EPA. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sarah Adee |
Winner: The Ultimate Dielectric Is...Nothing IBM packs wires in vacuum to speed chips and save power. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
James Urquhart |
UN report urges chemical industry to clean-up Governments and industry worldwide must address the management of chemicals in order to curtail the escalating heath and environmental risks associated with the widespread production, use and disposal of chemicals, warns the United Nations Environment Program. |
Food Processing
April 2012
Melissa Jones |
California's Proposition 65 Applies to All Food Processors Any food and beverage manufacturer who sells products in California can be sued. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2002 |
Skin Problems on the Job Skin diseases and injuries are the most common job-related medical problems. Workers of all ages and in almost all jobs can get skin problems. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
8 Cancer Myths The following myths about cancer have been debunked by doctors and scientists the world over. So do yourself and your community a favor: read the facts and spread the word. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2004
Michael Singer |
IBM's New Semiconductor Technique The company develops a processor that can regulate and adapt its own actions in response to changing conditions and system demands. |
Wired
June 2006
Steve Silberman |
Don't Try This at Home Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of do-it-yourself science. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2000
Lecia M. Apantaku |
Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Screening Statistics on breast cancer risk, symptoms and recommended tests. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sony Invests in IBM Chip Foundry The electronics giant will pump $325M into Big Blue's Fishkill, N.Y., plant, as part of a larger semiconductor initiative. |
Information Today
March 7, 2011 |
EBSCO Publishing to Release Chemical Hazard Information Library CHIL brings toxicology, pharmacology, occupational and public health, and chemical hazard information to corporations, government agencies, medical facilities, and academic institutions. |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010
Jonathan Katz |
Toxic Avengers Manufacturers discover that greener and smaller chemical inventories can save money. Reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, introduced in July by Representatives Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bobby Rush, D-Ill., are aimed primarily at the chemical content of products. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2004
Colin Haley |
IBM Snatches Chip Deal Big Blue's investment in a new semiconductor factory begins to pay off against its competition. |
Fast Company
May 2014
Adam Bluestein |
How IBM Is Using Nanotechnology To Tackle MRSA And HIV IBM's unusual nanomedicine program is tackling a range of ambitious projects: creating better antimicrobial and antifungal agents, new methods of drug delivery, and novel ways of combating such diseases as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. |
Chemistry World
February 25, 2013
REbecca Trager |
Endocrine disrupting chemicals under fire Common synthetic chemicals suspected of disrupting the hormone system could be responsible for serious health problems, warns a report released by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2004
Tim Stevens |
Technologies Of The Year -- IBM Corp.'s Nanotechnology For Semiconductor Processing Polymer molecules that self-assemble will enable smaller, more powerful semiconductor devices for the future. The technology promises significantly reduced feature size, higher component density, improved performance and lower voltage requirements for microelectronic devices. |
AboutSafety
April 20, 2001 |
CDC Chemical Exposure Report Begins To Fill Info Gaps In Environmental Health The first report initially measures the exposure of the US population to 27 environmental chemicals including lead, mercury, pesticide metabolites, phthalate metabolites and cotinine which tracks exposure to tobacco smoke. |
Salon.com
November 10, 2000
Laurie Tarkan |
The business of breast cancer Big medicine is making big bucks on the disease, but we're still far from a cure... |
Financial Advisor
November 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Chemical Solutions Safer chemical management strategies can help prevent toxic financial fallout. Consumer products companies are also moving away from controversial chemicals such as triclosan, an antibiotic agent used in soaps. |
Information Today
March 15, 2012 |
Occupational Health Content Integrated into EBSCO's ExPub Databases Haz-Map is designed to assist professionals seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biological agents in the workplace. |
Information Today
June 20, 2011 |
EPA Releases Two New Databases With Chemical Toxicity and Exposure Data The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the release of two databases that make it easier to find data about chemicals. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
EPA seeks heightened scrutiny for 16 chemicals The US Environmental Protection Agency wants to tighten its oversight of certain chemical substances by adding 16 chemicals to its Toxics Release Inventory list. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2004
Michael Singer |
IBM Breeds Cross-Foundry Design Program The company strikes a deal with Chartered Semi, Artisan Components, and Virage Logic to advance its 90-nanometer plans. |
Science News
July 8, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Farm Fresh Pesticides In the U.S., for people who live near croplands, traces of agricultural chemicals can find their way into homes by hitchhiking on windblown dust. This is disturbing for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the link between pesticide exposure and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 53
David Bradley |
An Underarm Review A review of health effects of organometallic compounds suggests that aluminum compounds used in the manufacture of underarm antiperspirants may somehow be involved in an increased risk of breast cancer. |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2015
Colacci & Kleinstreuer |
Rethinking risk assessment For the purposes of regulation, the onset of adverse effects is key to determining the level of exposure that presents an unreasonable risk for humans and ecosystems. |
