Cosmetics carry cancer agent.
Researchers in Beijing have found a cancer-causing hormone that could impair fertility and damage liver and kidney functions in many personal care products in China's domestic markets.
BPA levels jump in moms-to-be.
Pregnant women who eat canned vegetables or work as cashiers show the highest levels of bisphenol A, the estrogen-mimicking chemical, according to a new study.
Coming clean about household cleaners.
Cleaning companies are notoriously secretive about the chemical contents of their products. But now, New York is reviving a 1976 law that requires manufacturers to disclose chemical ingredients in household cleaners.
After hairstylist becomes suspicious of Brazilian Blowout, tests find formaldehyde.
Molly Scrutton's concerns over Brazilian Blowout, a hair smoother, led state and federal authorities in the United States and Canada to test the product for formaldehyde.
Levels of worrisome chemical higher in female cashiers.
Research published Friday indicates that bisphenol A levels in pregnant women vary widely. Scientists examined BPA levels in urine samples from 386 pregnant women in Cincinnati. About 90% of the women had detectable levels of bisphenol A.
Trying to understand our chemical exposure.
Our modern-day environment is loaded with man-made chemicals. What's the health fallout of this? In some cases, such as those for lead and mercury, the effects of environmental chemicals are clear. Not so much for others, such as bisphenol A and flame ...
Bad life habits raise your risk of getting cancer.
Whenever discussion arises about Delaware's higher-than-average cancer rate, the state's history of high pollution levels and environmental contaminants are usually cited as anecdotal – if not scientific – reasons. There's not nearly as much talk a...
Apples or pears … it’s all in the genes ladies, not the diet.
For apple-shapes like Sophie Dahl who struggle to stay slim the news may come as a blow – a woman’s shape is not determined by diet but by 13 inherited genes.
Ditch pink ribbon and focus on breast cancer prevention, group urges.
A Montreal group wants consumers to stop buying "pink ribbon" products and give money to organizations that fund breast cancer prevention research. The group contends that the Pink Ribbon campaign mainly benefits corporations, many of which sell products with ingredients linked to cancer.
Breast cancer linked to traffic-related air pollution.
Women living in areas with high levels of traffic-generated air pollution may be at greater risk for breast cancer, Montreal researchers have found. The results, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, were “startling,” the rese...
