Diagnosis: Mercury

UPDATES

9.8.09: Air America | Ring of Fire with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

3.4.09: KPIX-TV/ CBS 5 | Sue Kwon Conducts Tuna Mercury Test»»» Watch here

2.26.09: KQED Radio "Forum" »»»Listen here.

1.28.09: KCRB-FM »»» Listen here.

1.16.09: NPR's Science Friday. "Fish and Mercury." »»» Listen here.

12.9.08: Video of Jane M. Hightower, M.D. at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco »»» Watch here

11.28.08: "I hereby endorse the publication and frightening conclusions of Diagnosis Mercury. I am tempted to quote the entire book, but the best I can do is recommend that you read it." — Truthdig.com

11.14.08: "Reading Diagnosis Mercury I have concluded that there really is no safe level of mercury, and I'm going to stop eating tuna. Why would anyone want to continue to ingest poison? I'm going to tell my children to stop eating it, and anybody else who will listen... I applaud the publication and frightening conclusions of Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison by Jane M. Hightower" — Richard Ellis, Sunday Times, UK

10.27.08: "Hightower's thesis focuses on our need as a country to have a uniform regulation of mercury throughout our food supply." — HealthNews.com

10.20.08: "Hightower's impressive book is an extension of her own path of discovery and research about mercury in our fish supply." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

10.9.08: KPIX-TV/ San Francisco, CA: Bay Area Research Questions Fish Mercury Levels

10.4.08: "...A voyage of discovery that led this idealistic physician into the murky waters of corporate cover-ups and conflicting science, bemused colleagues and corrupt officials, mass poisonings and what may be a widespread but obstinately unrecognized problem for ordinary consumers. She relates that voyage, and the surprising history of mercury, crisply and, for the most part, clearly in Diagnosis: Mercury.... I defy anyone not to be angry by the end of this book." —New Scientist

9.24.08: Environmental Health News: "Northeastern, West Coast women have high mercury levels"

PRAISE

"Dr. Hightower passionately argues that we still need numbers and hard facts; without them consumers cannot make appropriate informed choices. Hightower has worked long and hard on this fight to make the dangers of mercury public and this important new book highlights the long and lonely quest she has fought to help get us where we are today." — Senator Patrick Leahy

"Dr Hightower's intriguing tale takes us from her physician's office to sites of mercury poisoning and through the halls of Congress where public policy will determine our future exposure to this heavy metal. Throughout, she shows how important it is to understand mercury's wide-ranging health effects and the urgent need to set stricter limits on the amount of this known neurotoxin emitted from coal-fired power plants, which contaminates the fish we eat." —Paul R. Epstein, M.D., MPH, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

"Not content with discovering mercury-contaminated food as the reason for her patients' strange symptoms, Jane Hightower follows the threads even further. Driven by curiosity, courage, and pure persistence, she enters a messy world of science and public environmental health contaminated with money and special interests. This tale is for every citizen of the world." —Ted Schettler, science director, Science and Environmental Health Network