Skip sunbathing, use tanning lotion, doctors say.
Armed with a fake tan, government-funded researchers have found they can get women to cut back on sunbathing. The message is an old one, despite the new looks: Too much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation will turn your skin into a crinkly patch of leat...
Permeable boundaries: How mothers’ meds affect a fetus.
We are all too aware of the fetus’s vulnerability, in which the placenta seems not an unbreachable barrier but the merest wisp. What is the placenta capable of blocking, I wonder, and what does it allow to pass through?
Chemical ‘warfare’: Who’s who and what’s at stake.
Chemical industry resistance and campaign pressures from the upcoming election combined to kill reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act this year.
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...
Gene sweeps nets female cancer clues.
A huge international research effort has pinpointed an area of genetic variation that is linked to developing both breast and ovarian cancer. Two studies published today in Nature Genetics separately found that changes in a stretch of chromosome 19 are...
Gender bending chemicals in plastics ‘raises risk of prostate cancer’.
A gender-bending chemical found in babies' bottles may raise their odds of prostate cancer in later life, scientists have warned.
With hair products, it’s buyer beware.
This isn’t the first time that hair products have been singled out for their potential health risks.
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.
Chances of developing cancer start even before we’re conceived, expert claims.
A person's chances of developing cancer are effected by their mother's behavior before they are even conceived, a leading nutritionist has claimed. Medical experts have long believed that cancer risk is associated with their genes and lifestyles as adu...
Blumenauer asks feds to investigate hair-care products with formaldehyde.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., on Tuesday asked federal agencies to investigate two hair-smoothing products shown in recent Oregon tests to contain high levels of formaldehyde, even when labeled "formaldehyde-free."
