Not all that glitters: mercury poisoning in Colombia
Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world’s highest per head mercury pollution.
Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world’s highest per head mercury pollution.
Anajulia Caicedo and her two children fled 500 kilometers to Ciudad Bolivar, a huge slum outside Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá when fighting erupted in 2006 between the army and …
When Dr. Alfredo Pinzon, an internal medicine specialist, stepped into the emergency ward at Hospital Simón Bolivar Hospital in the Colombian capital of Bogotá to confer with a colleague, he …
Dr. Aida Lebbos Saad hatched the idea while working as a pediatrician in an upscale private clinic within Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá. She’d noticed that children from wealthy families …
Fred Coulter traces his decision to sue the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma (Canada) back to 1994, when a heavy roller in the London, Ontario printing plant where he worked fell …
As I arrived in Segovia, a small city in Colombia’s Antioquia province, I was startled to see soldiers fully geared for combat — machine guns poised, helmets strapped tight, field …