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Firefighters Sound Alarm On Toxic Chemicals
More than 200 empty pairs of firefighter boots lined the steps of the Rotunda in San Francisco's City Hall on Wednesday. Each pair represented a local firefighter who lost his ...
Fran Drescher Is More Than ‘The Nanny’
An idiosyncrasy of the cavernous Broadway Theater in Manhattan — currently home to the hit show “Cinderella” — is that actors need to traverse the stage to get from their ...
‘Nanny’ takes on wicked roll in ‘Cinderella’
Fran Drescher. The nasal sound. The Queens speech. The high-pitched giggle. The screech. “The Nanny,” in her Broadway debut, is a replacement, playing the evil, mean, nasty, ratty, lousy, wicked ...
The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains
Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems. But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater. ...
Cancer-Proof Your Body
Recent research reveals 8 stealth strategies to keep the killer at bay. It's time to raise your carcinogen shields—and your overall health—using these smart anti-C moves The average mouse doesn't ...
10 Ways for Men to Prevent Cancer Today
Sweat Daily In a University of Vermont study, the fittest men were 68 percent less likely to develop lung cancer and 38 percent less likely to develop colorectal cancers than ...
March is National Nutrition Month
“Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right” is the theme for National Nutrition Month 2014. Consumer research confirms that taste tops nutrition as the main reason why one food is purchased ...
The Chemicals That Stick Around in the Body
How the U.S. tracks the potentially harmful substances that build up in humans Most Americans do carry traces of dozens—possibly hundreds—of potentially toxic chemicals in their bodies, according to the ...
The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics
Update (3/3/14): After this story went to press, the US Food and Drug Administration published a paper finding that BPA was safe in low doses. However, the underlying testing was ...
Drug That Harnesses Body’s Own Immune System Produces Lasting Remissions For Melanoma Patients
Written By Deena Beasley, Reuters Mar 3 (Reuters) - A drug that uses the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells has produced lasting remissions - some as long ...
Controlling Inflammation: Five Natural Ways to Put Out The Fire
The relationship between cancer and inflammation is well established. There is a strong association between chronic, ongoing inflammation in the body and the occurrence of cancer. It is most obviously ...
BPA Absorbed From Cash Register Receipts, Study Finds
People who handled receipts coated with the controversial chemical BPA had the compound in their urine just a few hours afterwards, showing the compound soaks into the body through the ...
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