A group of scientific advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a recommendation that a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and other nonstick and ...

Chemicals that release the ‘highly toxic’ preservative formaldehyde were found in more than half the beauty products used by Black and Latina women in a new study Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter ...

On the hunt for drugs contaminated with a likely carcinogen, the FDA initially tested and cleared generic diabetes med metformin. But now, after an independent lab challenged those findings, the FDA ...

Many people use dry shampoo in their normal routine, stretching the days between washing their hair in the shower. In October of last year, the Food and Drug Administration found potentially elevated ...

The products contain benzoyl peroxide, which can produce the carcinogen benzene under certain conditions La Roche-Posay; SLMD; Walgreens The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a voluntary ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

A new study from Consumer Reports finds varying levels of a chemical compound classified as a possible human carcinogen in many popular brands of soda. The findings have prompted the Food and Drug ...

A new report from the National Research Council has upheld the listing of formaldehyde as “known to be a human carcinogen” in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC). The ...