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Fight over Brazilian Blowout hair treatment heats up.
The fight over whether a popular hair-smoothing salon treatment contains hazardous levels of a cancer-causing chemical is heating up.
Brazilian Blowout maker sues, claiming formaldehyde findings were wrong.
The company that makes the hair smoothing treatment known as Brazilian Blowout is getting into a legal tangle in Oregon. The company has filed a lawsuit against Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Division, demanding that it stop stating that the...
Environmental justice activist urges EPA chief ‘to roll up your sleeves’ at tense W.H. forum.
Suzie Canales was visibly frustrated as she sat on a small couch with U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson yesterday, just outside the first-ever White House Forum on Environmental Justice.
Brazilian Blowout goes to court to stop Oregon OSHA from sharing formaldehyde test results.
The legal tangle over Brazilian Blowout, a salon hair smoothing solution, grows frizzier. Lawyers this week filed a complaint asking for an injunction that would force Oregon's Occupational Safety and Health Division to stop reporting test results show...
Fertility problems? Maybe it’s your plastics.
In October, a study showed how BPA may cause low sperm counts and decreased sperm motility in men, an early confirmation of animal studies that also showed a link. Now, scientists are publishing the first evidence that the plastic-related chemical Bisp...
Study: Half of women over 40 get annual mammograms.
Remember the uproar last year when a government task force said most women don't need annual mammograms? It turns out that only half of women over 40 had been getting them that often to start with, even when they have insurance that covers screening.
FDA to reexamine metal dental fillings.
U.S. health regulators are seeking a second opinion on whether mercury-containing dental fillings pose a risk to dental patients, especially children and pregnant women.
Wanted: Chemicals That Cause Autism.
The Daily Green Dan Shapley December 10, 2010 Dr. Philip Landrigan is rounding up a posse in search of one of America’s most elusive evildoers:... Read More