We've known for some time that lead is a potent neuro-toxin that can cause significant damage to a number of organs in the body, including the central nervous system, and can lead to behavioural problems in children.

BBC: Does lead poisoning make you violent?

Versicor brought to the table a host of interesting programs early in the research pipeline and an antifungal drug, anidulafungin, which is now being evaluated by the FDA to treat invasive fungal infections that can damage the internal organs of patients with already compromised immune systems.

FORBES: Building An Antibiotic Powerhouse

Arsenic can damage most of the body's major organs and the immune system.

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By disturbing the body's equilibrium, anabolic steroids can potentially cause damage to many of the body's major organs, particularly the liver, which has to deal with breaking down the compound.

BBC: Nandrolone and anabolic steroids

And like the treatment of appendicitis, most of the offending organs of television economics should be removed from the air before they can do any fatal damage.

FORBES: The Age Of The Rockstar Economist Comes To An End

"For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs, " said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

CNN: Toxic chemicals finding their way into the womb

Noah won its case, Dr Menache said, by basing it on actual autopsies of birds that had been force-fed to prove the damage to their digestive system, throat and other organs.

BBC: Israel court cans foie gras farms

These iPS cells, like stem cells derived from embryos, can be turned into many different kinds of cells, and researchers believe they eventually could be used to regenerate tissue for organs and repair damage.

CNN: Study: Human fat yields multipurpose stem cells