Feeling exhausted, achy, and anxious way too often lately? The toxic heavy metal mercury could be literally dragging you down. When mercury accumulates in the body, as experts say it does for many of ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in ...

Multiple children in Camp Washington were exposed to mercury recently, the neighborhood's community council said in a news release Wednesday, and officials are concerned there could be more cases. The ...

In my research on the history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, I can’t get away from mercury. Edgar Allan Poe, three months before he died in a delirious state, had been treated with ...