The dark side of beauty?
In recent years, watchdog organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics have released reports looking at chemicals and additives in makeup, hair and skin products.
Campaigners reject report that clears factory of cancer link.
A decade-long battle over fears that chemicals in an electronics factory caused workers to develop cancer took an acrimonious turn yesterday, as campaigners questioned the validity of a study that said the claims were unfounded.
Toxic hormones seen in river fish.
Fish in the Yangtze River contain an "environmental hormone" that mimics the female hormone and can cause sexual prematurity and breast cancer, according to non-governmental organization members in four cities along the river.
S.C. tests for PCBs in Lake Wylie.
By October, anglers on Lake Wylie could find out just how safe it is to eat the fish they catch. Unsafe carcinogen levels in fish caught Lake Wateree have led the state to issue fish consumption advisories. It has also tested Lake Wylie and three other...
Study links thyroid problems in Iowa women with farm chemicals.
A study involving Iowa women who live on farms finds exposure to some common farm chemicals may bring a greater risk for developing thyroid disease.
In feast of data on BPA plastic, no final answer.
The research has been going on for more than 10 years. Studies number in the hundreds. Millions of dollars have been spent. But government health officials still cannot decide whether the chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, a component of some plastics, is s...
Age that girls hit puberty keeps dropping.
The age at which girls hit puberty continues to drop, new research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center shows.
Baby milk in new scare.
Shanghai industrial and commercial watchdogs said yesterday they were paying close attention to the local market after China-produced Synitra baby formula was reported as causing unusually early sexual development in infants in several provinces on the...
Girls hit puberty at younger ages.
New research adds further evidence that girls are entering puberty at younger and younger ages, with implications for their physical and mental health. One of the main contributors to early puberty is thought to be increasing body weight and obesity ra...
Puberty coming earlier for US girls.
Girls in the U.S. may be continuing to hit puberty at earlier ages, according to new research. The findings suggest earlier development than what was reported in a 1997 study and show a worrying pattern, say the study's authors, led by Dr. Frank Biro o...
