Public Health Watch produced cutting-edge journalism on a wide range of topics in 2024. Here are nine stories and one column ...

Advocates canvassed Niagara Falls’ LaSalle neighborhood last week with a map showing potential neighborhood exposure to a ...

The Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been using a chemical called ortho-toluidine, linked to bladder cancer, since 1957. The plant has had an outbreak of the disease among workers; there ...

The modeling, by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, shows that levels of ortho-toluidine in some areas are seven times the state’s safety guideline.

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Jim Morris is founder of Public Health Watch and has been a journalist since 1978, focusing on public health and the environment. He is the author of “The Cancer Factory,” an investigative book on ...

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Fred Blackman II, a minister in Austin, has to take dozens of pills every day to deal with the pain and complications of a catastrophic back injury. His experience going uninsured turned him into an ...

The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than ...