The Australian authority that regulates pesticides has finally released its long-delayed review of the rodenticide poisons ...

Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them in battle, in ...

Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows and ...

California health officials issue urgent warning after toxic death cap mushrooms cause fatal outbreak. These dangerous fungi ...

The man may have mistaken the poison mushrooms for edible ones from his home country, health officials say.

Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel, 52, allegedly put a clear, colorless solvent with a sweet-smelling odor into four people’s drinks, authorities allege ...

Traces of toxic plant compounds have been found on a handful of 60,000-year-old African arrowheads, providing the oldest chemical evidence that Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used poison to bring down ...

Five quartz arrowheads unearthed in South Africa contained traces of toxins. Marlize Lombard Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of ...

Winter outbreak: Approximately 20 cases of poisoning due to eating wild mushrooms have been referred to various hospitals across the country since the beginning of December, according to data ...

The death of a Sonoma County resident last week prompted public health officials to urge foragers not to consume wild mushrooms. By Hannah Ziegler Three people in California have died and more than ...

A Tucson woman is in the Pima County jail on suspicion of using ant poison to try to kill her boyfriend and his mother. Tina Renee Beerens, 22, was indicted Monday on two counts of attempted ...