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Do you know how much radiation your cell phone emits? You will from now on if you live in San Francisco. Yesterday the city's Board of Supervisors voted to require ...

Let’s make this a celebration, with candles and cake for every generation. Where smiles and tears are not so far apart, on the faces of loved ones, and in the ...

Kids benefit from laws that regulate locations where smoking is allowed, a new study shows. Smoke-free-air laws have already been shown to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke among adults. Now ...

Animal tests suggest esophageal and breast cancer might be targets of several types of berries Garden-variety berries provide about the same cancer-fighting punch as more exotic ones, a study of ...

Research suggests millions are going without needed medical services Millions of Americans with a history of cancer, particularly people under age 65, are delaying or skimping on medical care because ...

Four years ago, just after giving birth to her second child, the stay-at-home mom heard about BPA, a chemical inside some plastics that can leach into water or food slowly ...

Nine out of ten. According to a study released today, (May 17)  those are your chances of having some bisphenol A (BPA) with tonight’s dinner, if canned food is on ...

Finding HPV in tumor meant lower death rates in those with cancer at back of the mouth, study finds For patients battling a type of cancer that affects the back ...

For many women with early-stage breast cancer, treatment may become considerably less arduous, researchers say. A new study found that certain women getting a lumpectomy may not need an operation to ...

My doctor’s call came early last month just as I was completing a column noting that 41 percent of Americans come down with cancer. That statistic felt as remote as ...

A largely ignored contaminant doesn’t just resemble bisphenol A, the chemical found to leach out of hard plastic water bottles. It’s BPA’s fluorinated twin — on steroids. BPA's structure resembles ...