The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival.

Too much sun can do more than turn your skin red or brown—it can actually make you sick. Sun poisoning is an extreme form of sunburn. It doesn’t only affect your skin; it also causes an inflammatory ...

The parents of two Melbourne women who died due to methanol poisoning in Laos late last year have called for travellers to boycott the country until it investigates the deaths properly.

A new Netflix drama is about to reveal the dogged determination of a group of parents convinced a council clean-up of a steelworks had harmed their children’s health. Toxic Town, premiering on ...

Bethany has started a petition for UK schools to educate children about methanol poisoning, in the same way people are warned about the dangers of drink spiking. Bethany has started a petition for ...

Had the weather not been unseasonably cold on a Monday night in April 1999, one of Britain’s worst industrial poisoning cases might have remained an unsolved mystery. An unassuming Home Counties ...

A woman accused of poisoning her ex-husband has wept as a jury found her not guilty in the WA Supreme Court. Bozena Knapinski, 63, had been on trial in the WA Supreme Court, charged with five ...

A fresh contender in the UK parcel delivery market, InPost, is launching a service today that promises to give Royal Mail a run for its money with more affordable rates. The Poland-based company, ...

Thousands of children could be suffering from undiagnosed lead poisoning causing them to have a lower IQ and learning difficulties, experts have warned. Researchers claim the lifelong impacts of e ...

This comes after the authorities suspended the Total Defence food resilience programme until a probe into the Sota food poisoning case is completed. In a joint Facebook statement on Feb 20 ...

Ready-to-eat meals developed by SATS which were designed to be stored without refrigeration and served at ambient temperatures without reheating. (Photo: CNA/Mak Jia Kee) New: You can now listen ...