Olive oil protects against breast cancer: study.
Adding olive oil to one's daily diet could help keep breast cancer at bay. The findings show that the Mediterranean oil mounts a multi-pronged attack on the tumours, stunting their growth, driving their cells to implode and protecting against potential...
Salinas, California: The Salad Bowl of pesticides.
The difficulties facing migrant workers who plant and pick the crops is an old story. But in Salinas, a new story is emerging -- one with serious implications for the rest of the country. New research on the neurodevelopmental effects of pesticides is ...
Many ignore indoor tanning risks.
Indoor tanning does, in fact, increase the risk of skin cancer, and may speed up the aging process in skin, causing wrinkles. Despite this, a new survey released today found that 18 per cent of women and more than 6 per cent of men said they have gone ...
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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...