Category Archives: Toxic Tort
1-27-16- Dr. Hildy® – LEGIONELLA Bacteria: The Cause of Legionellosis, Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever
LEGIONELLA Bacteria: The Cause of Legionellosis,
Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever
(2:00-4:00pm Mountain; 3:00-5:00pm Central; 4:00-6:00pm Eastern)
This week on One Cell One Light Radio, returning guest Veronica Hendricks joins Dr. Hildy in the next in a series of discussions relating to the man-made disasters currently ongoing in our nation.
Our attention next turns to the potential danger of Legionnaires’ disease. Also known as legionellosis or Legion fever, Legionnaires’ disease is a form of atypical pneumonia caused by any type of Legionella bacteria. Legionnaires has a wide variety of symptoms: almost all with Legionnaires’ disease experience fever, while approximately half have cough with sputum, and 1/3 cough up blood or bloody sputum. Other symptoms include muscle aches, headache, tiredness, loss of appetite, loss of coordination, chest pain, or diarrhea and vomiting. Up to half of those with Legionnaires have gastrointestinal symptoms, and almost half have neurological symptoms, including confusion and impaired cognition.
Exposure to the Legionella bacteria is of great concern in stagnant water. At low levels of contamination, the chance of getting Legionnaires’ disease from a water source is very slight. The problem arises when high concentrations of the organism grow in water systems. Water heaters, cooling towers, and warm, stagnant water can provide ideal conditions for the growth of the organism.
1/13/16 – Dr. Hildy®- Toxicology of METHANE and ETHANE – The simplest of Alkanes.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 – 1:00-3:00PM Pacific
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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0108-porter-ranch-20160108-story.html
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With much in the news about the Porter Ranch gas leak in Southern California, special attention should be paid to the potential toxicity of methane gas exposure. This week on One Cell One Light Radio, Dr. Hildy aims to do just that.
Joined by returning guest, Film Producer Veronica Hendricks, Dr. Hildy will outline how exposure to methane is of great concern, for its use as an odorant gas with propane in piped-in gases or container gas to a home or apartment where it will decompose into carbon monoxide and other compounds.
10-21-15- Dr. Hildy® – PARENTS’ Concerns About Vaccines
CALIFORNIA: Bill Text – SB-277 Public health: vaccinations.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277
SB 277 is the new vaccine law that takes away parental rights of choice. We need help spreading the word. We want parents to have the legal right to submit personal belief exemptions. The personal belief exemptions will guarantee the kids’ education without having to get any more vaccinations. The # of doses adds up to 49 by the age of 5. We have no idea how the schools are planning to implement this new law. We will be discussing the CDC Whistleblower and parental rights.
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Now that we are firmly in the Information Age, we have access to just about all of the collected knowledge in human history. There will always be things we cannot know, but for the most part, any fact you have ever wanted to know is easily accessible, and often from a device that fits in your pocket. What was science fiction 25 years ago is now a common part of life. 
Despite this, surely a high point in human history, we must work harder than over to discern what this knowledge means, where it comes from, and what to do with it. And there may be no greater example than a current issue that has the two sides fervently divided – with lives hanging in the balance.
This week on One Cell One Light Radio, Dr. Hildy welcomes guests Dora Ramirez, Lisa Heyrend and Marco Caceres, concerned parents who are crusaders on one side of a hotly contested issue: Vaccinations.
For centuries, mankind has sought to eliminate permanently the things that ail. Through science, we’ve had great success, eliminating diseases such as smallpox, polio, measles, and others. But there is concern that we are currently over-vaccinating our children, and that mass vaccination has eliminated most natural immunity to disease in early childhood and presented fewer opportunities for children to develop strong, healthy immune systems.
Additionally, there is a movement that accuses vaccines of causing the rise in autism. This is still a contentious issue, as some believe that mandatory vaccinations are directly contributing to this rise, while others contend that the science to back up these claims is not there.
It is the goal of Dora Ramirez, Lisa Heyrend, and many, many others to educate the general populace to understand that vaccines should not be viewed as a “one size fits all” solution for eliminating disease. Additionally, they believe that vaccination carries a risk
8-26-15-Dr. Hildy® : Dr. Vallianatos- POISON SPRING and Carol Van Strum- BITTER FOG
“I never thought of myself as an activist. I was just me…
There are so many ways of fighting. ”
Carol Van Strum
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 1:00-3:00PM Pacific
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This week on One Cell One Light Radio, Dr. Hildy welcomes two specials guests to the show – authors Carol Van Strum and Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos.
In the first hour of the show, Dr. Hildy, will talk to Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos about his book Poison Spring, The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, and will be joined by author of Bitter Fog, Carol Van Strum for his conversation. Dr. Vallianatos earned a BA in zoology from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin. He also did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard, and worked for 2 years on Capitol Hill and 25 years for the U.S. EPA. He is the author of 6 books and hundreds of articles. His book on the workings and failure of EPA, Poison Spring, was published in 2014.
Poison Spring documents the EPA’s corruption and misuse of science and public trust. In its half-century of existence, the agency has repeatedly reinforced the chemical-industrial complex by endorsing deadly chemicals, botching field investigations, turning a blind eye to toxic disasters, and swallowing the self-serving claims of industry. E. G. Vallianatos, who saw the EPA from the inside for more than two decades with rising dismay, reveals in Poison Spring how the agency has allowed our lands and waters to be poisoned with more toxic chemicals than ever. No one who cares for the natural world, or for the health of future generations, can ignore this powerful exposé.
In the second hour of the show, Carol Van Strum will stay with Dr. Hildy to discuss her book A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights, a true story of people living in the forests of Oregon fighting to protect their families and environment from Agent Orange poisons sprayed on them from the air. A Bitter Fog puts human faces on those who defied profiteering corporations and indifferent government agencies and fought to protect their homes and families and was given the Christopher Award for “media that affirms the highest values of the human spirit” in 1983.
In the 70s, Carol and her husband Steven moved to rural Oregon to retreat from the din of civilization and start anew, farming and raising their four children in a simpler environment than the urban area they’d left behind in Berkeley. Then, in the mid-1970s, in an attempt to eliminate unwanted plants and speed the growth of timber, the U.S. Forest Service sprayed herbicides – poisons – on the Van Strums’ refuge. She became an activist, protesting the use of these chemicals and had victories, winning a court order in 1977 to cease spraying for a year. However, Carol believes the cost of this victory was greater than you could ever imagine, losing her four children in a house fire in 1978. A house fire she suspects that was set by a hired killer employed by the chemical industry.
Join Dr. Hildy and her guests as they discuss their writings against the dangers of chemicals on One Cell One Light Radio!
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6th Edition – Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings – | Occupational Pesticide Safety and Health | US EPA – .pdf
www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-01/documents/rmpp_6thed_final_lowresopt.pdf
(Contents and Preface available at *Look Inside*) Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA: E.G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins: 9781608199266: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Poison-Spring-Secret-History-Pollution/dp/1608199266/ref=sr_1_1
Carol Von Strum Review of: Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA by Evaggelos Vallianatos
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/poison-spring-the-secret-history-of-pollution-and-the-epa/Book Discussion Poison Spring | Video | C-SPAN.org
Absolutely Fascinating. Share this widely and make sure to watch. Evaggelos Vallianatos, who spent 25 years as an analyst for the EPA, talks about his book “Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA”, in which he argues that the EPA has failed to protect us. His book leaves a trail of blood back to the bodies. This will not surprise many of you but gives a candid view from the inside of the EPA.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?319791-1/book-discussion-poison-spring
http://www.theletterfromamerica.org/
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(Contents and Preface available at *Look Inside*) A Bitter Fog by Carol Van Strum (Amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Fog-Carol-Van-Strum/dp/0871563290
The title of the 288 page book comes from the very first experience her four children had with the spaying of Agent Orange along a dirt road and the bitter taste it had in their mouths.
Dec. 2014 Evaggelos Vallianatos review “A Bitter Fog” – The Poisoning of Melyce
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/27840-the-poisoning-of-melyce
Carol sighs, half exasperated and half excited, she explains, “What should we tell young people. I don’t know! You know what you have to do? The only way I can keep going is to find some unholy glee in causing trouble even for one bureaucrat. You have to look for the fun in it, somewhere.”
CAROL AND SUSAN – Published on May 19, 2015
Carol Van Strum & Susan Swift Parker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=68&v=zK0fAz3_Xn0
But then the tank trucks came.
Then the helicopters came.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910707&slug=1293023
Failure to Regulate: Pesticide Data Fraud Comes Home to Roost
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30097-failure-to-regulate-pesticide-data-fraud-comes-home-to-roost
S/R 7/8: EPA Reinvents the Wheel on Reproductive Effects of Dioxin (Carol Van Strum)
http://www.greens.org/s-r/078/07-25.html
Reuters Article: USDA Approves 2,4-D, glyphosate Enlist
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/17/us-agriculture-dow-enlist-idUSKBN0HC2JS20140917
Damning Agent Orange Research Studies
http://covvha.net/agent-orange-deliberate-malfeasance-and-deception-by-the-u-s-govt/
Agent Orange and Children Latest Chronology
http://www.scribd.com/doc/228498008/Agent-Orange-and-Children-Latest-Chronology
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8-5-15- Dr. Hildy® welcomes Dr. Ernest P. Chiodo – Toxic Tort: Medical and Legal Elements
(2:00-4:00pm Mountain; 3:00-5:00pm Central; 4:00-6:00pm Eastern)
Dr. Ernest P. Chiodo – BRIEFBIOGRAPHY-1-23-2015
Dr. Ernest P. Chiodo – Website
In the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays the titular, real-life legal assistant who nearly single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply. Although actress Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her performance, these types of cases are not only real, but also prevalent and common. Known as “toxic torts”, they are increasingly common, as more and more negative side effects from long-term exposure to chemicals are discovered and those in charge are held responsible.
This week on One Cell One Light Radio, Dr. Hildy welcomes her guest, physician, attorney, industrial hygienist, industrial toxicologist and biomedical engineer Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.B.A., C.I.H. to discuss these types of cases and more.
Dr. Chiodo’s law practice has included service as a trial attorney in toxic tort and environmental litigiation, and he has written a book on the subject, Toxic Tort: Ernest P. Chiodo: Amazon.com: Books.
Determination of causation of occupational and environmental disease requires knowledge of medicine, epidemiology, toxicology, biostatistics, industrial hygiene, public health, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Chiodo has formal education and board certifications documenting his expertise in all of these disciplines. In addition, as a practicing attorney, he has knowledge of evidentiary rules including the Federal Daubert Rules for admission of expert testimony.
People are typically exposed to toxic chemicals from pharmaceuticals, from consumer products, from the environment, in the home, and at work. Most toxic tort cases arise either from exposure to pharmaceutical drugs or occupational exposures. There have also been many occupational toxic tort cases, because industrial and other workers are often chronically exposed to toxic chemicals. Most of the law in this area arises from asbestos exposure. However, thousands of toxic chemicals are used in industry and workers in these areas can experience a variety of toxic injuries.
Join Dr. Hildy and her guest this week as they discuss toxic tort cases, their causes, and what you can do to protect yourself on One Cell One Light Radio!
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Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.B.A., C.I.H is a physician, attorney, industrial hygienist, industrial toxicologist and biomedical engineer licensed to practice medicine in New York, Michigan, Florida and Illinois as well as law in Michigan and Illinois. Dr. Chiodo provides medical, legal, industrial hygiene, toxicology, biostatistics, epidemiology, and biomedical engineering services from his offices in Metropolitan Detroit and Chicago. He also has a forensic medical office in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Toxic Tort: Ernest P. Chiodo: Amazon.com: Books
When your legal concern involves dangerous toxins and pesticides, you want to know exactly what you are dealing with. Attorney and physician Dr. Ernest Chiodo has outlined these concerns in his book, Toxic Tort: Medical and Legal Elements.
This is what former Chairman of the environmental law section of the State Bar of Michigan, Donnelly W. Hadden had to say about the book:
“Dr. Chiodo provides within this book gems of researched law and accepted science polished with the grit of practical courtroom experience. If you do any toxic tort litigation, this book will soon become dog-eared and full of underlined passages. You will always keep it near.”
ERNEST P. CHIODO, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.B.A., C.I.H.
