ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Cadmium is a soft, blue-white, malleable, lustrous metal or a grayish-white powder. Some cadmium compounds may also appear as a brown, yellow or red powdery substance.

Exposure to the heavy metal cadmium is known to irritate the stomach and lungs or cause kidney disease, but new research links another health issue to inadvertently ingesting low doses of the ...

France's national health agency has warned that nearly half the population exceeds the recommendation for exposure to the ...

This monograph is one in a series of self-instructional publications designed to increase the primary care provider’s knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation ...

Women are more likely to develop endometriosis if they have elevated levels of cadmium in their system, a new study reports. Twice as many women with slightly or moderately elevated levels of the ...

IN NATURE (April 12) the writer of the notice of Dr. Mellor's treatise on chemistry refers to the suggestion of a missing element between cadmium and mercury. That there is no unknown element to go ...

What is Atomic Absorption Spectrometry? AAS is a technique for determining how much of a specific element is present in the specimen under study. The uptake of optical radiation by neutral atoms in ...

This article has been updated with information provided by state regulators. The company at the center of Portland's toxic air scare resumed using cancer-causing cadmium to make glass Tuesday, company ...

Even though cadmium is considered a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it is still used to give some plastics and ceramics red, orange, or yellow hues. That’s ...