October 7, 2009 (Dallas, Texas) — An association seen between mercury levels and blood pressure (BP) in a recent analysis [1] has researchers warning physicians and consumers about the need to weigh ...
New York, NY The desire to comply with environmental initiatives clashes with the need for accuracy in measuring blood pressure (BP), as medical experts call for a delay in replacing mercury ...
Additional solutions for mercury-free BP measurements are provided by use of non-auscultatory devices based on the oscillometric technique. Oscillometric instruments, however, operate under a ...
Indiana regulators will require BP to cut its Whiting refinery’s mercury discharge into Lake Michigan by more than half under a final permit issued Wednesday. The five-year permit will allow the ...
Although the federal government ordered states more than a decade ago to dramatically limit mercury discharges into the Great Lakes, the BP refinery in northwest Indiana will be allowed to continue ...
— -- The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes to 1.3 ounces per year. The BP ...