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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 ...
Cancer survivors warn teens of dangers of tanning, sun exposure
When prom season and graduation hover closer, many high school students urge one another to sign pledges to stay sober and act responsibly. But some are making a different sort ...
FDA’s New Nutrition Labels Reflect Actual Servings, Not What Americans Pretend They’re Eating
Your days of glancing at a nutrition label and pretending you'll only eat the recommended twelve chips are numbered. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration will announce the biggest ...
Fluoride and Other Chemical Risks
New research finds exposure to fluoride in drinking water and several other common chemicals in early life diminishes brain function in children. Study lead author, Philippe Grandjean, tells host Steve ...
Planned food safety rules rile organic farmers
Local growers are discovering that proposed FDA regulations would curtail many common techniques, such as using house-made fertilizers and irrigating from creeks. HUSTONTOWN, Pa. — Jim Crawford was rushing to ...
Fran Drescher Talks About Her Broadway Debut This Week on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
ACTRESS FRAN DRESCHER TALKS ABOUT LIFE, LOVE AND HER BROADWAY DEBUT - THIS WEEK ON “CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD” DRESCHER TELLS TRACY SMITH: “EVERYTHING HAS LED ME TO ...
Yellow pigments in clothing, paper contain long-banned PCB
New, unpublished research has found that polychlorinated biphenyls – banned in the United States 35 years ago – are leaching out of clothing and printed materials from around the world. ...
Walmart And Target Take Aim At Hazardous Ingredients
Big retailers formulate policies to regulate the chemicals that go into the products they sell Megaretailers Walmart and Target announced last fall that they would reduce or eliminate ingredients in ...
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